zkSync Era batches users' transactions and submits them to Ethereum together with a zero-knowledge proof, paying a share of the transaction fees to Ethereum validators (expense).

zkSync Era is an L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. zkSync Era was founded by Matter Labs and launched in 2023.

Matter Labs team owns and governs the protocol. Matter Labs' investors include a16z, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blockchain Capital, etc.

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# zkSync Era Token incentives Methodology

## 1. Overview

The zkSync Era token incentives metric measures the daily USD value of token-based incentives distributed by the zkSync Era protocol to users, liquidity providers, or other participants. Currently, zkSync Era does not operate any token incentive programs, so this metric is systematically set to zero for all time periods. The metric maintains the same temporal structure and metadata as other zkSync Era metrics to ensure consistency across the protocol's analytics framework.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation relies on the following data sources:
- **zkSync Era transaction records**: Raw blockchain transaction data including gas usage, effective gas prices, and transaction metadata
- **End-of-day token price feeds**: Price data for ETH/WETH used in the underlying fee calculations that provide the temporal structure
- **Token metadata**: Information about WETH token contract and decimals used in the fees model that serves as the template

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Timestamp and metadata extraction
- **Purpose**: Establish the proper temporal structure and protocol metadata for the token incentives metric
- **Logic**: Extract daily timestamps, protocol identifiers, and chain information from the zkSync Era fees model. This ensures the token incentives metric maintains the same time boundaries and metadata structure as other zkSync Era metrics. The fees model processes raw zkSync Era transaction data, aggregates gas fees by day, and converts them to USD, providing a complete daily time series.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily granularity), `timestamp_grain`, `product_id`, `chain_id` set to 'zksyncera'

### Component B: Zero token incentives assignment
- **Purpose**: Set token incentive values to zero for all time periods since zkSync Era currently has no active token incentive programs
- **Logic**: Create a constant zero value for the `token_incentives` field across all timestamps and metadata combinations extracted from the fees model. This approach ensures that if zkSync Era launches token incentive programs in the future, the metric structure is already established and can be updated with actual incentive calculations.
- **Key fields**: `token_incentives` set to 0 for all records

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The zero token incentive values are combined with the timestamp and metadata structure in a single dataset
- **Schema validation**: The `finalize_metric_token_incentives` macro applies standard metric schema validation, ensures proper ID formats, and fills any temporal gaps with zero values using the 'fill_zeros' strategy
- **Chain availability filtering**: Results are filtered to only include time periods where zkSync Era blockchain data is available and reliable
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value is consistently 0 USD for all daily time periods, representing the absence of token-based incentive programs on zkSync Era

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

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