Validators process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Terra is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Terra was founded by Daniel Shin and Do Kwon and launched in 2018. Terra Classic's stablecoin UST collapsed in 2022 due to a cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run. Terra was forked shortly after, leading to the current Terra and its predecessor Terra Classic. This dashboard tracks the new Terra blockchain.

LUNA holders own and govern the protocol. They take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue) that is then rewarded to contract owners (cost of revenue). Terra’s investors include Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Pantera Capital, etc.

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# Terra Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Terra contract deployers metric measures the daily count of unique addresses that deployed smart contracts on the Terra blockchain. This metric provides insight into developer activity and smart contract deployment trends on Terra, serving as an indicator of ecosystem growth and developer engagement. The calculation counts distinct deployer addresses per day, ensuring each deployer is counted only once regardless of how many contracts they deployed on that day.

## 2. Data sources

- **Terra blockchain contract records**: Native Terra blockchain data containing contract creation events, including deployment timestamps, contract addresses, and deployer addresses
- **Terra transaction data**: Underlying blockchain transaction records that capture contract deployment activities on the Terra network

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation data extraction
- **Purpose**: Extracts and standardizes contract deployment records from Terra blockchain
- **Logic**: Retrieves all contract creation records from Terra blockchain data, selecting the creation timestamp as `block_timestamp`, contract address as `account_address`, and the `deployer_address`. The data is deduplicated using distinct selection to ensure each contract creation is counted only once
- **Key fields**: `creation_timestamp` (when contract was deployed), `contract_address` (deployed contract address), `deployer_address` (address that deployed the contract)

### Component B: Daily aggregation and counting
- **Purpose**: Groups contract deployments by day and counts unique deployers
- **Logic**: Truncates timestamps to daily boundaries using timestamp truncation to day grain. Groups the data by the truncated timestamp and counts distinct deployer addresses within each day. Adds metadata fields including chain identifier as 'terra', market sector as 'blockchains_l1', and business segment as 'blockchain'
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `contract_deployers` (count of distinct deployer addresses per day), classification metadata fields

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily aggregated data flows through the finalize metric macro which standardizes the output format and applies gap-filling logic
- **Currency conversion**: No currency conversion required as this is a count metric
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries using timestamp truncation, with each day representing a complete 24-hour period
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the count of unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract on Terra blockchain during each specific day, with zero-filling applied for days with no deployments to maintain complete time series continuity

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

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