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Hour audit: 2026-09-21T03

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-21T03 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-21T03:00:00.000033404+00:00 · last event 2026-09-21T03:59:59.999907502+00:00
VOLUME      102,223,424 rows · 1,015,673,998 bytes (968.62 MiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   cefh — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  f: 102,108,514 · h: 102,093,049 · c: 102,086,315 · e: 102,039,159   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  f: 153,735 (0.15%) · h: 3,637,826 (3.56%) · c: 98,268,118 (96.13%) · e: 163,745 (0.16%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            1 product-machine pair publish no supplied count; the figures above still sum to the file's 102,223,424 rows exactly, so those pairs supplied none
            5 expected (cefgh), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 64422b59f2aa83dab135ab8a794510bdf649bff6ee7bfd0494493c11aa8c07c1
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 102,224,738 to merged 102,223,424, minus 1,314 (minus 0.0013%)
            boundary drops 1,314 · guard cache
SIDECARS    none: this hour's manifest has no v31 key. The v3.1 sidecars are optional, and hours before them have none
MARKETS     not measured (the per-hour market census runs on the capture host and its output is not published per hour)
HISTORY     merged 2026-09-21T06:22:33Z as cefh
            layout union-event-sorted-v1
            re-merges not measured (the merge ledger records the merge that produced this file, not the history of attempts)
            supersessions not measured (supersession is recorded per corpus in the storage registry, not in the hour manifest)
CHECKS      7/8 pass, 1 finding
              PASS    all products present
              PASS    row counts reconcile
              PASS    byte ranges tile the file
              PASS    the merge delta is explained
              FINDING a machine expected this hour contributed nothing
              PASS    the checksum ledger names this file
              PASS    the hour is whole
              PASS    a boundary guard ran
UPSTREAM    our incident register was checked against the venue's own status feed at 2026-09-23T20:35Z and names no event in this hour. That is a statement about what they published, not a check that every message they sent reached us.

The words in this report

Each line in the CHECKS block states what was found, not what was hoped for: a check that passes is named for the thing that is true, and a check that does not is renamed to the thing that is wrong. So FINDING never sits beside a sentence asserting the opposite of the one below it.

The report above is fixed-width text, so nothing in it can be clicked. The same terms are linked here instead. Its verdict is a statement about minutes and nothing else. The row it reports comes from this hour's own manifest and its witness-statistics sidecar, and the completeness line comes from the corpus attestation. The gap between the joined and merged counts is deduplication, not loss, and the boundary drops are the duplicates discarded at the seam with the hour before. Where the history line names a supersession, this hour was rebuilt to a better state after it was first published. The precision is the timestamp resolution these files carry.

Detail

The same records, per product. A product holding no rows renders its zero rather than being dropped: dropped and empty are indistinguishable to a reader, and only one of them is a defect. A cell reading not meas. is one nothing published, which is a third thing again and never a zero.

The class column is the merger's own verdict for that product, and it is keyed to CONTRIBUTION rather than presence. FULL means every machine expected to be capturing this hour delivered rows for that product; PARTIAL means some did and some did not; SINGLE-BY-DESIGN means only one machine was ever expected, and SINGLE-BY-DEFECT means several were and one delivered. So PARTIAL here is a statement about the fleet, not about the product being damaged or truncated: the rows that are present are whole.

PRODUCT                     rows          bytes   row groups  sha256
best_bid_ask          10,241,530    112,579,134         0-39  fe6e0e073b3645f48fab6a254bed7106aefb707223b6c4c7fd0d33cea8779654
book                     142,330     15,377,437        40-40  b892fc00ef2c279f71466bdda34cb299c7195aff8f8ccaed6a9edabcfbe1fb3f
last_trade_price          43,293      2,438,376        41-41  b8839c0c52007f767e308edc3c387ba0aa48d7685e7b17235774bece352a1331
market_resolved            1,399        228,049        42-42  28320c924650a63d2ee1553097cd2af6aefa2537f2c0edf592099ed0335ddc2c
new_market                   670         78,230        43-43  aa1aafc283d614a4b0bfa701a7b0a538bb34c2ef1eda9cdd0e60a8f51f5b266e
price_change          91,790,822    883,682,766       44-394  51f2c0ab047479f9b81efef482f10d4664b4536584f335b68aa876080e4ee84e
tick_size_change           3,380        122,928      395-395  789bc5c240e6ba87e1e71ca0f786a5b6ea439ae52c0a002218c8f878f82edecf

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          91,790,822   89.79%
best_bid_ask          10,241,530   10.02%
book                     142,330    0.14%
last_trade_price          43,293    0.04%
tick_size_change           3,380   <0.01%
market_resolved            1,399   <0.01%
new_market                   670   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,241,684    10,241,530        154          65,754           PARTIAL
book                     142,336       142,330          6          27,166           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          43,293        43,293          0           2,524           PARTIAL
market_resolved            1,399         1,399          0           1,397           PARTIAL
new_market                   670           670          0             529           PARTIAL
price_change          91,791,976    91,790,822      1,154         115,094           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           3,380         3,380          0             845           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c     10,240,774    9,910,205      4ms      8ms     60ms     1.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e     10,240,768       11,046     46ms     51ms    124ms     6.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      f     10,240,849        9,461     46ms     52ms    126ms     3.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     10,241,122      310,818     17ms     23ms     84ms     8.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c        101,469       95,393      6ms   1.9min    13.7d   114.2d             0  book_staleness
book              e         93,824        6,259     48ms    226ms     2.4d    95.7d             0  book_staleness
book              f         96,983        9,216     48ms     2.5s     6.9d   114.2d             0  book_staleness
book              h        115,165       31,462     21ms  16.6min    15.6d   114.2d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         43,098       40,728      5ms     15ms    128ms    627ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         43,127          128     48ms     92ms    477ms     6.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  f         43,190          114     48ms     94ms    392ms     3.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         43,225        2,323     18ms     36ms    169ms     7.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c          1,397        1,306      4ms     16ms    53.6s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e          1,397            2     48ms    130ms    51.9s    57.2s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   f          1,397            1     47ms    130ms    51.9s    57.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h          1,397           90     18ms     61ms    52.7s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c            529          298     93ms    13.0s   1.3min   1.4min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e            529          140    213ms    16.4s   1.3min   1.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        f            529          107    171ms    16.9s   1.4min   1.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h            529          125    181ms    15.2s   1.4min   1.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     91,695,668   88,216,888      4ms     10ms     72ms     1.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e     91,656,134      146,170     46ms     54ms    179ms     6.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      f     91,722,186      134,832     46ms     56ms    176ms     5.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h     91,688,231    3,292,932     18ms     26ms    107ms     8.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          3,380        3,300      4ms      7ms     38ms     83ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          3,380    not meas.     46ms     50ms     96ms    161ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  f          3,380            4     46ms     50ms     94ms    155ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          3,380           76     17ms     20ms     51ms    665ms             0  transport_latency_assumed

Captured and supplied are different numbers

Captured is how many rows each machine's own feed carried. Redundant capture means these OVERLAP, heavily and on purpose, so they do not partition the file and their sum is larger than it. Two machines each capturing nearly every event is the archive working, not double counting.

Supplied is how many rows of the merged file actually came from that machine. This one does partition: it sums to the file's row count exactly. But it is decided by the merge's tie-break, so a machine can capture almost everything and supply almost nothing. Read alone, either number tells a false story about the fleet, which is why both are printed and neither is called "the witness share".

What the skew columns mean

Arrival skew is the receipt timestamp minus the venue timestamp, in milliseconds. For six of the seven products the sidecar interprets it as transport latency, and marks that interpretation assumed: it rests on the venue timestamp being emit time, which we cannot verify from outside.

book is not latency and must not be read as latency. Its venue timestamp is the last time the book changed, so the sidecar interprets it as book staleness and warns in its own note that large values mean a quiet book rather than slow transport. Its maximum runs to weeks for that reason. This is why the table above gives a row per product per machine and never one figure for the hour: percentiles do not average, and these seven do not measure the same quantity.

Check it yourself

The digest above is a claim. This is how you refuse to take our word for it:

curl -O https://archive.pendulumflow.com/v3/2026-09-21/03/2026-09-21T03.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-21T03.parquet
# compare with the sha256 line in the report above

A range digest certifies bytes. That those bytes are the product the manifest names comes from the manifest, which is why both are published and both are checkable.

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