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# XAI Block time Methodology

## 1. Overview

The XAI block time metric measures the average time between consecutive blocks on the XAI blockchain, aggregated daily. This metric provides insight into the XAI network's block production consistency and performance. The calculation determines the time interval between each block and its predecessor, then computes the daily average of these intervals to provide a stable measure of block timing performance.

## 2. Data sources

- **XAI blockchain block data**: Raw block metadata from the XAI network including block timestamps and sequential block numbers
- **Block metadata**: Timestamped records of each block produced on the XAI blockchain, collected from network nodes

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block data extraction
- **Purpose**: Extract fundamental block timing data from the XAI blockchain
- **Logic**: Retrieves block timestamps and block numbers from XAI blockchain data, filtering to include only blocks up to a specific cutoff date. The data includes the precise timestamp when each block was mined and the sequential block number.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (when the block was produced) and `block_number` (sequential block identifier)

### Component B: Block interval calculation  
- **Purpose**: Calculate the time difference between consecutive blocks
- **Logic**: Uses a lag window function to retrieve the previous block's timestamp for each block, ordered by block number. Computes the time difference between each block and its immediate predecessor using millisecond precision. Filters out the first block which has no predecessor.
- **Key fields**: `previous_timestamp` (timestamp of the preceding block), `block_time` (millisecond interval between consecutive blocks)

### Component C: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Group block intervals by day and calculate daily averages
- **Logic**: Truncates block timestamps to daily boundaries to group all blocks produced on the same day. Averages all block time intervals within each day to produce a single daily block time metric. Includes metadata fields identifying this as XAI blockchain data in the Layer 3 blockchain market sector.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `block_time` (average daily block interval in milliseconds)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily averaged block times are processed through a metric finalization macro that applies standardization, data validation, and fills any missing data points with zeros
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable for this timing-based metric
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries, with each day containing the average block time for all blocks produced that day
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the average time in milliseconds between consecutive blocks for each day, providing a measure of XAI blockchain's block production consistency and network performance

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

avg(block_timestamp - previous_block_timestamp)

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