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Hour audit: 2026-09-21T09

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-21T09 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-21T09:00:00.000009142+00:00 · last event 2026-09-21T09:59:59.999925206+00:00
VOLUME      120,520,752 rows · 1,268,298,989 bytes (1.18 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   cefh — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 119,274,033 · e: 118,883,960 · f: 114,786,416 · c: 106,620,936   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 18,156,506 (15.07%) · e: 821,180 (0.68%) · f: 397,223 (0.33%) · c: 101,145,843 (83.92%)   (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 120,520,752 rows exactly, so those pairs supplied none
            5 expected (cefgh), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 9fde92d9332559ecfd872859e960a9e3d2fb684eb8da0e23aaf1f1d4b88702e0
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 120,522,052 to merged 120,520,752, minus 1,300 (minus 0.0011%)
            boundary drops 1,300 · 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 2026-09-21T11:27:51Z 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          10,225,500    115,317,614         0-39  a7d03f85a2b3c31de15e9b30e6c5d70c0f6440f8edbb6f5da2c3791eff115042
book                   1,192,636     68,849,924        40-44  66b967495ff432270c3d2bbb56fe1bda0bb31b3828fba39140a76036b1d74467
last_trade_price          69,117      3,839,990        45-45  5218b29152da9324376035d419711633435c315990ffd9542fded09dda57e8f0
market_resolved              699        102,789        46-46  dc6ae2b1f44e48ed10b4282df27e97019eda902151b17f1d4fec366a715d3e18
new_market                   210         28,080        47-47  0c921a4f39c768e7130635daadfc8591083213ce798e31a76bc75ed46fc8adcf
price_change         109,029,878  1,078,690,980       48-463  2c6225b39ab9634411c7f18e8d403b3c300382d6bffcfb0f3c26db7757722a29
tick_size_change           2,712         99,065      464-464  de7c101a226d83bfe02918e6bb66ad93af61be587ca1fe87830b805154e04bf7

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         109,029,878   90.47%
best_bid_ask          10,225,500    8.48%
book                   1,192,636    0.99%
last_trade_price          69,117    0.06%
tick_size_change           2,712   <0.01%
market_resolved              699   <0.01%
new_market                   210   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,225,600    10,225,500        100          64,211           PARTIAL
book                   1,192,924     1,192,636        288         149,715           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          69,117        69,117          0           3,039           PARTIAL
market_resolved              699           699          0             627           PARTIAL
new_market                   210           210          0             188           PARTIAL
price_change         109,030,790   109,029,878        912         114,074           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           2,712         2,712          0             678           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c      9,066,814    8,636,030      5ms     13ms     75ms     1.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e     10,218,522       62,524     41ms     53ms    178ms    17.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      f      9,827,269       16,344     48ms     62ms    217ms    15.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     10,224,631    1,510,602     19ms     29ms     87ms     3.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c      1,063,511      994,368   7.1min     2.7d    43.8d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              e        164,485       18,923     54ms   7.3min    14.0d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              f        451,948      142,953   2.1min     1.8d    40.6d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              h        166,613       36,392     24ms   4.4min    14.0d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         61,836       57,926      6ms     21ms    179ms     1.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         67,134          424     46ms     1.2s    10.8s    17.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  f         65,474          181     53ms     1.2s     8.5s    15.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         69,088       10,586     20ms     52ms    230ms     1.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c            605          537      5ms    43.6s   5.2min   5.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e            627           63     43ms    22.5s    57.5s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   f            625           19     49ms    268ms   3.1min   4.8min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            627           80     20ms    25.0s   1.0min   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c            188           76     7.5s   2.2min   2.9min   2.9min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e            188           54     6.0s    11.0s    20.3s    21.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        f            188           35     5.2s    17.6s   1.1min   1.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h            188           45     7.2s    14.1s    19.7s    20.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     96,425,706   91,454,726      5ms     15ms     85ms     1.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e    108,430,292      739,172     42ms     71ms     3.2s    17.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      f    104,438,244      237,691     48ms     82ms     2.4s    15.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    108,810,174   16,598,289     19ms     33ms    110ms     4.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          2,276        2,180      5ms     11ms     44ms    172ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          2,712           20     41ms     47ms    112ms    644ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  f          2,668    not meas.     47ms     54ms    113ms    272ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          2,712          512     19ms     25ms     99ms    513ms             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/v3/2026-09-21/09/2026-09-21T09.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-21T09.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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