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 Median transaction fee Methodology

## 1. Overview

Median transaction fee measures the median fee paid across all transactions on Tempo. This metric provides a representation of what a typical user pays for a transaction, ensuring the data is not skewed by exceptionally high or low values. Because Tempo utilizes a stablecoin-denominated fee model, transaction costs are natively calculated in USD-equivalent values, providing a consistent measure of network affordability.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction records from the Tempo network
- **External data**: Asset metadata for fee-paying stablecoins

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Transaction fee extraction

- **Purpose**: To identify and calculate the fee for every successful transaction on the network.
- **Logic**: Successful transactions are filtered from the network records. For standard transactions, the fee is calculated by multiplying the gas used by the effective gas price. For Multi-Payment (MPP) transactions, which contain multiple calls within a single transaction, the total gas used is divided evenly across all constituent calls to ensure accurate attribution.
- **Key fields**: `receipt_gas_used`, `receipt_effective_gas_price`, and `calls` array for Multi-Payment transactions.

### Component B: USD normalization

- **Purpose**: To convert raw fee values into a standard USD denomination.
- **Logic**: Fee amounts are extracted in attodollars. These values are normalized by decimal precision to arrive at the final USD value. Since Tempo fees are natively denominated in stablecoins, the normalized values represent the actual USD cost without the requirement for external price feed conversions.
- **Key fields**: `fee_token` and `receipt_effective_gas_price`.

### Component C: Median aggregation

- **Purpose**: To determine the daily median fee value across the network.
- **Logic**: Transaction fees are first aggregated by transaction hash to ensure that components of Multi-Payment transactions are recombined into a single total fee per transaction. The median value is then calculated from the distribution of all transaction fees within a specific UTC day. This is determined by identifying the 50th percentile of the daily fee distribution.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` and `transaction_hash`.

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

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