- What is DAU and why does it matter?
- Daily Active Addresses — the count of unique on-chain addresses that sent or received a user transaction on a given day. Protocol payouts (validator withdrawals, block rewards) don't count. A healthy chain shows steady-to-growing DAU; sustained decline is an early warning that real users are leaving.
- How is the network-health score calculated?
- The 0–10 score is a composite of four equally-weighted axes — and only one is demand, so adoption can't carry the whole verdict. They are: liveness (is the chain producing blocks and is the tip fresh?), stability (is the head reorganising?), activity (30-day transactions, trend, daily active addresses and new-vs-returning adoption, combined into one signal), and security — what actually secures the chain. Each scored signal contributes ok = 1, watch = 0.5, poor = 0; signals with no data yet are excluded from the denominator rather than counted as failures, so the card shows how many of the total it scored on.
- What does the 'security' signal measure?
- It depends on how the chain reaches consensus. QRL (the legacy chain) is Proof-of-Work, so security is the network hashrate and difficulty — the computing effort miners spend defending the chain. QRL 2.0 is Proof-of-Stake, so security is the validator set: how many validators are active, how much stake they hold and how concentrated it is. The page shows whichever applies to the chain it is currently leading with.
- What does the fee market section show?
- Two things, both in Quanta: the base fee permanently burned by EIP-1559 over the last 24 hours, and the median (p50) and p99 per-transaction fee on the latest indexed day. These are currently tiny because demand is light; they rise as blockspace gets busier. The standalone fee-burned and fee-percentiles charts show the full history.
- What does 'New vs Returning' tell me?
- Each day's active addresses split into 'first-ever-seen today' (new) versus 'seen on any earlier day' (returning). Sustained high returning means real organic stickiness. High new + low returning means churn — users try the chain once and don't come back. The long-run trend lives on the growth & adoption page.
- Why can QRL 2.0 activity look sparse?
- QRL 2.0 is an emerging network, so transaction counts are still low — much of the activity is testing rather than sustained real usage, and the page flags a sparse context when the last 30 days carry fewer than 100 transactions. Numbers will scale up as adoption grows; until then we show what we have honestly rather than inflating it.
- How current is this data?
- All metrics update on a short cache cycle — typically under 5 minutes from the last block. Sparkline updates may lag by up to one hour as the underlying materialized views compact.