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Tron is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Tron was founded by Justin Sun and launched in 2018.

TRX holders own and govern the protocol. They currently burn all transaction fees paid by users (revenue). It is important to note that the incentives related to energy and bandwidth are effectively returned as revenue, and this is reflected in the earnings.

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# Tron Average revenue per user (ARPU) Methodology

## 1. Overview

ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) measures the average daily revenue generated per active user on the Tron blockchain. This metric answers the business question: "How much revenue does Tron generate per user on average each day?" The calculation divides total daily revenue by the number of unique daily active users, providing insight into user monetization efficiency and network economic health.

## 2. Data sources

The ARPU calculation relies on the following raw data sources:
- **Tron transaction records**: Complete transaction data including sender addresses, gas usage, bandwidth consumption, and fee information
- **End-of-day price feeds**: TRX/USD exchange rates from Chainlink (March 2021 onwards) and CoinGecko (pre-March 2021)
- **Configuration data**: Hardcoded bandwidth pricing schedules with time-based applicability

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Revenue calculation

- **Purpose**: Calculate total daily revenue in USD from all fee types on the Tron network
- **Logic**: Revenue comes from four distinct fee sources. First, extract transaction data including energy usage, bandwidth consumption, and TRX burns. Energy from staking rewards is calculated by multiplying `energy_staking_rewards_used` by `effective_energy_price`. Bandwidth from staking rewards uses `bandwidth_staking_rewards_used` multiplied by time-based bandwidth prices (0.00014 before July 27, 2021, then 0.001). Energy supplied by contracts multiplies `energy_origin_energy_used` by `effective_energy_price`. Direct TRX burns come from `receipt_info_fee` divided by 1e6 for decimal correction. All fee amounts are aggregated daily and converted to USD using time-matched TRX price feeds
- **Key fields**: `energy_staking_rewards_used`, `bandwidth_staking_rewards_used`, `energy_origin_energy_used`, `receipt_info_fee`, `effective_energy_price`, `bandwidth_price`, and TRX price data

### Component B: Daily active users calculation  

- **Purpose**: Count unique users who initiated transactions each day
- **Logic**: Extract all transaction sender addresses (`from_address`) from Tron transaction records. Group transactions by day using timestamp truncation. Use HyperLogLog data structure to efficiently count distinct user addresses per day across multiple dimension breakdowns (chain, user_type, product_id). Aggregate to the project level to get total daily unique users. Users are classified as "Transaction sender" type within the "blockchains_l1" market sector
- **Key fields**: `from_address` as `user_address`, `block_timestamp` truncated to day boundaries

### Final aggregation

- **Combining components**: The final ARPU calculation divides total daily revenue (Component A) by daily active users (Component B) using the `calculate_arpu` macro
- **Currency conversion**: All revenue is converted to USD using time-matched TRX price feeds, with Chainlink data used for dates from March 2, 2021 onwards and CoinGecko data for earlier periods
- **Time aggregation**: Both revenue and user metrics are aggregated to daily boundaries using timestamp truncation to day level
- **Final calculation**: ARPU equals total daily revenue divided by the number of unique daily active users, with the result standardized through the `finalize_metric_arpu` macro which ensures proper schema formatting and fills any data gaps with zeros

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

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