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# Unichain Revenue Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Unichain revenue metric measures the total fees collected by the Unichain blockchain from transaction gas payments. This metric represents the blockchain's revenue from processing transactions and is calculated by aggregating all gas fees paid by users, including both Layer 2 (L2) execution fees and Layer 1 (L1) data availability fees. The calculation converts gas fees from ETH to USD and aggregates them daily, with revenue directly equal to total fees collected.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain transactions**: Raw Unichain blockchain transaction records containing gas usage, gas pricing, and fee information
- **External data**: End-of-day ETH price feeds for USD conversion
- **Token metadata**: Standard ETH token information for the gas token used on Unichain (contract address `0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000006`)

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Transaction data processing
- **Purpose**: Extract and standardize gas-related fields from raw Unichain transactions
- **Logic**: Process raw blockchain transactions to extract key gas payment fields including `gas_used`, `gas_price`, `l1_gas_used`, `l1_gas_price`, `l1_fee_scalar`, and `l1_fee`. Standardize the gas token as ETH with the designated contract address. Cast all numeric fields to appropriate data types for calculation.
- **Key fields**: `gas_used` (L2 gas consumed), `gas_price` (L2 gas price in wei), `l1_gas_used` (L1 gas consumed), `l1_gas_price` (L1 gas price in wei), `l1_fee_scalar` (L1 fee multiplier), `l1_fee` (direct L1 fee amount)

### Component B: Gas fee calculation
- **Purpose**: Calculate total gas fees paid per transaction, combining L1 and L2 components
- **Logic**: Calculate L2 gas fees by multiplying `gas_used` by `gas_price` and dividing by 10^18 to convert from wei to ETH. For L1 gas fees, use either the direct `l1_fee` field (converted from wei to ETH) or calculate as (`l1_gas_used` × `l1_gas_price` × `l1_fee_scalar`) ÷ 10^18. Aggregate transactions by day and sum the total of L1 and L2 fee components.
- **Key fields**: `l2_gas_fee` (calculated L2 fees in ETH), `l1_gas_fee` (L1 fees in ETH), total daily fee aggregation

### Component C: Fees metric standardization
- **Purpose**: Convert gas fees to USD and apply business categorization
- **Logic**: Sum L1 and L2 gas fee components for each day. Convert the total ETH fees to USD using end-of-day ETH price feeds. Apply business categorization labels including `business_line` as 'blockchain', `market_sector_id` as 'blockchains_l2', and `business_segment_id` as 'blockchain'. Apply finalization macro for schema validation and gap filling with zeros.
- **Key fields**: `fees` (total daily fees in USD), business categorization fields, standardized timestamp and chain identifiers

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: All gas fees from Unichain transactions are already aggregated by day in the fees calculation step
- **Currency conversion**: ETH amounts are converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds through the standard conversion macro
- **Time aggregation**: Daily aggregation boundaries are set using day-truncated timestamps
- **Final calculation**: Revenue is set directly equal to the total fees collected - no additional processing or adjustments are applied. The fees represent the blockchain's revenue from processing transactions.

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

fees * take_rate (illustrative — revenue is observed directly per project, not derived from take_rate)

Fee revenue retained after supply-side payouts. Before cost of revenue (e.g. L2 DA fees) and before operating expenses.

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