# Trading volume Methodology

## Overview

Trading volume measures the total value of trades executed on a decentralized spot exchange. Since users have to pay trading fees on their trades, this metric tends to correlate with the DEX project's ability to generate fees and revenue.

## Data sources

- Smart contract events and program instructions capturing trade and swap activities
- Token price feeds for USD conversion
- Asset metadata for decimal normalization

## Common calculation approaches

### Automated Market Maker (AMM) swap tracking
Swap events are extracted from liquidity pool contracts on decentralized exchanges to determine the total value of assets exchanged. Token amounts are normalized by decimal precision and converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds. For example, swap data is aggregated from pool contracts across multiple deployment chains for platforms including Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and Aerodrome.

### Order book and direct market maker trade tracking
Trades are tracked directly from specialized node services or program instructions on spot markets when transactions occur outside traditional liquidity pools. Asset values are determined based on execution fills or native token balances and converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds. For instance, trade records are extracted from Hyperliquid node services and program instructions on Solana from BisonFi.

**Note:** The calculation approaches and protocol examples above are representative patterns. Individual protocol implementations may vary.

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

Total value of spot trades executed on the exchange.

Trading volume

Exchanges (DEX)

Liquidity providers deposit funds into Thruster, receive trading fees from traders (supply-side fees).

Thruster is a non-custodial exchange protocol built on Blast. Thruster was launched in 2024.

Thruster team and investors own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total trading fees paid by traders, and earn native yield (revenue). Thruster's investors include Mirana Ventures, Manifold, OKX Ventures, etc.

Thruster Classic

Archived

Trading volume

Trading volume