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Hour audit: 2026-09-21T10

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-21T10 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-21T10:00:00.000090736+00:00 · last event 2026-09-21T10:59:59.999944198+00:00
VOLUME      116,231,916 rows · 1,227,772,368 bytes (1.14 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   cefh — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 115,021,300 · e: 114,748,428 · f: 111,352,665 · c: 107,578,792   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 13,820,167 (11.89%) · e: 1,066,980 (0.92%) · f: 526,514 (0.45%) · c: 100,818,255 (86.74%)   (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 116,231,916 rows exactly, so those pairs supplied none
            5 expected (cefgh), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 1a6c9f64a17d3812dbc640c2635483a9f0eaf1eb4497567133ca664dc6d5827a
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 116,233,204 to merged 116,231,916, minus 1,288 (minus 0.0011%)
            boundary drops 1,288 · 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 2026-09-21T11:56:37Z 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          10,167,158    115,981,092         0-38  510a41f890ab105bc41bfb233d81372b4844371ad6a1a9c059aa1f91ab71dbe6
book                     932,391     63,991,838        39-42  ef0e7bd43b1ed910b49460aa625bbd65cbbeea30c8a1e3dec7c0aed640818d25
last_trade_price          61,106      3,429,874        43-43  2262a66afaac04bfd002913620eb9d5ddad7bdfb0efef3c23180f340a3add57f
market_resolved              986        142,439        44-44  5f3719d0a68c36846dbc9ecaade0e158dd4e3ccc2d59648441779c0e6b543e80
new_market                 3,487        336,376        45-45  fa4aced361618c4de41286c38fe89b01e0e3e7f7f43b571c17806c5b8f6c020c
price_change         105,063,480  1,042,450,419       46-446  33f54ba62ebbfa8b33ab958ca00e08ee0bee9a7fe45b9b2553ddb00593da6321
tick_size_change           3,308        120,222      447-447  d24a772b5e3217b4317abd23ffd5ebaea7024e0e173cafa580899b151f83d660

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         105,063,480   90.39%
best_bid_ask          10,167,158    8.75%
book                     932,391    0.80%
last_trade_price          61,106    0.05%
new_market                 3,487   <0.01%
tick_size_change           3,308   <0.01%
market_resolved              986   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,167,270    10,167,158        112          66,590           PARTIAL
book                     932,519       932,391        128         151,208           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          61,106        61,106          0           2,950           PARTIAL
market_resolved              986           986          0             874           PARTIAL
new_market                 3,487         3,487          0           2,195           PARTIAL
price_change         105,064,528   105,063,480      1,048         116,281           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           3,308         3,308          0             827           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c      9,441,973    8,881,215      5ms     17ms    162ms     4.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e     10,153,686       86,894     40ms     63ms    385ms    30.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      f      9,820,292       27,812     49ms     73ms    407ms    32.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     10,162,913    1,171,237     18ms     35ms    281ms    47.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c        756,740      713,016   3.5min     2.8d    43.8d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              e        145,964       17,247     67ms   4.4min    14.0d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              f        486,403      179,589   2.4min     2.8d    40.7d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              h        133,832       22,539     23ms    318ms    17.1h    96.0d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         55,770       51,784      6ms     31ms    238ms     1.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         58,089          550     47ms     1.4s    12.1s    30.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  f         56,224          189     58ms     1.5s    12.5s    32.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         60,952        8,583     20ms     94ms    582ms    13.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c            881          804      5ms    30.8s   4.5min   5.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e            874           87     42ms    583ms    50.7s    58.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   f            901           49     50ms    32.8s   4.9min   4.9min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            874           46     19ms    221ms    54.2s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c          2,333        1,645    125ms    35.2s   5.1min   5.6min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e          2,195          582    238ms    25.6s    49.4s    59.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        f          2,195          459    247ms    28.7s    47.4s  35.9min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h          2,195          801    162ms    24.2s    44.4s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     97,317,951   91,166,707      5ms     20ms    176ms     4.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e    104,384,312      961,616     41ms    100ms     2.7s    30.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      f    100,983,518      318,416     49ms    114ms     2.5s    32.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    104,657,226   12,616,741     18ms     42ms    354ms    48.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          3,144        3,084      5ms      8ms     31ms    179ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          3,308            4     40ms     44ms    107ms    265ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  f          3,132    not meas.     48ms     61ms    311ms    590ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          3,308          220     18ms     22ms     45ms    442ms             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/v3/2026-09-21/10/2026-09-21T10.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-21T10.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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