Tempo is a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for global payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs and Fortune 500 companies and incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. It delivers high-throughput, low-cost global transactions with sub-second finality, predictable fees, and native stablecoin support.

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# Tempo Average fees per user (AFPU) Methodology

## 1. Overview

Average fees per user (AFPU) measures the average daily transaction costs incurred by an individual active user on the Tempo network. This metric provides insight into the cost of interacting with the network and the economic profile of its user base. Tempo utilizes a stablecoin-based fee model where gas is paid in assets pegged to the US Dollar. The metric is calculated by dividing the total daily fees by the number of unique active users (daily), reflecting the average expenditure per participant within a fixed 24-hour window.

## 2. Data sources

- **Fees**: Derived from the Fees metric, covering the Tempo network
- **Active users (daily)**: Derived from the Active users (daily) metric, covering the Tempo network
- **Blockchain events**: Transaction data and execution receipts from the Tempo network

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Fee extraction and normalization

- **Purpose**: Calculate the total value of fees paid for transaction execution on the network
- **Logic**: Transaction data is parsed to extract gas usage and effective gas prices. For standard transactions, fees are calculated by multiplying the gas used by the effective gas price. For Multi-Payment (MPP) transactions (Type 118), the total gas used is divided evenly across all nested calls within the transaction. Since Tempo fees are denominated in attodollars (representing 10^-18 USD), all values are normalized by decimal precision to represent final USD amounts.
- **Key fields**: `receipt_gas_used`, `receipt_effective_gas_price`, `transaction_type`, and `calls` array

### Component B: Active user identification

- **Purpose**: Identify the number of unique participants interacting with the network daily
- **Logic**: Active users (daily) are determined by extracting the unique transaction sender addresses from all successful transactions recorded on the network. Only the `from_address` of a transaction is considered to represent the active user initiating the interaction.
- **Key fields**: `from_address` and `receipt_status`

### Component C: Average fee per user calculation

- **Purpose**: Determine the average daily cost per user
- **Logic**: The final metric is calculated by dividing the total daily fees (Component A) by the count of unique active users (daily) (Component B). The resulting value represents the average USD amount paid by an individual user for network services within a UTC day boundary.
- **Key fields**: `fees` and `user_dau`

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

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Average fees per user (AFPU)

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