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Hour audit: 2026-09-25T15

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-25T15 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-25T15:00:00.000065761+00:00 · last event 2026-09-25T15:59:59.999979076+00:00
VOLUME      131,830,869 rows · 1,385,771,574 bytes (1.29 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   hik — 3 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 130,850,022 · k: 120,584,386 · i: 120,221,191   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 20,339,541 (15.43%) · k: 105,996,480 (80.40%) · i: 5,494,848 (4.17%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cghik), 2 contributed nothing: c, g
INTEGRITY   sha256 b87bb5170f8c43d1855862217b5a82677d66bb6b72d20a6426c849724bbd93a5
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 131,832,969 to merged 131,830,869, minus 2,100 (minus 0.0016%)
            boundary drops 2,100 · 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 2026-09-25T22:33:19Z as hik
            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    status feed unobserved for this hour. Our incident register was last checked against the venue's feed at 2026-09-23T20:35Z, before this hour ended, so nothing has looked yet. This is a could-not-look and never an all-clear.

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          12,516,838    137,781,590         0-47  d69772d73eb02edc5d6394893961e6d3de9920c0f8b5767a8e620f7aa1ebed46
book                   1,074,256     72,629,168        48-52  5adcd2410a98ff8ca52faff215bd231bc4c06066992628db59d0ad75638c568f
last_trade_price          66,070      3,695,096        53-53  06f78122ae857f75cbf2a927e50d72e5e60561b3406b9a281b3d1f9de4c44fe9
market_resolved              837        108,253        54-54  eb0a13a4f24c9d7f90ffb1430c4e0e6a1d29246f8893bcbe124d922cbb33396e
new_market                   482         52,708        55-55  5ba7c7c4c94d29c3c59c21e6bf48cc58b1616bd7711bd35b28f813e844a1c1dc
price_change         118,170,082  1,169,924,499       56-506  38fcf971b6c056b4c73bc3c57eb8d52e1f4812e143deae1bf0cd796f6a0427de
tick_size_change           2,304         84,460      507-507  abf5f2b2bc1f69d3f4358dd8ba6c625e085209ee8b1fb5e50ba464efd0049ab8

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         118,170,082   89.64%
best_bid_ask          12,516,838    9.49%
book                   1,074,256    0.81%
last_trade_price          66,070    0.05%
tick_size_change           2,304   <0.01%
market_resolved              837   <0.01%
new_market                   482   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          12,516,872    12,516,838         34          51,202           PARTIAL
book                   1,075,416     1,074,256      1,160         209,206           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          66,070        66,070          0           3,698           PARTIAL
market_resolved              837           837          0             650           PARTIAL
new_market                   482           482          0             336           PARTIAL
price_change         118,170,988   118,170,082        906          87,574           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           2,304         2,304          0             576           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      h     12,516,186    1,855,085     19ms     45ms    121ms     8.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      i     11,420,356      447,070     22ms     35ms    122ms     4.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      k     11,465,744   10,214,683     13ms     25ms    109ms     1.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              h        145,350       33,542     26ms    288ms     3.8d   118.7d             0  book_staleness
book              i        960,005      445,675     1.1h     3.8d    41.0d   118.7d             0  book_staleness
book              k        968,599      595,039     1.1h     3.8d    41.0d   118.7d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  h         65,936       11,302     21ms     70ms    321ms     4.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  i         60,240        2,509     25ms    123ms    769ms     3.2s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  k         60,463       52,259     14ms     43ms    217ms     1.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            650          129     21ms     95ms    46.5s    51.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   i            723          128     27ms   6.9min  11.2min  11.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   k            752          580     18ms   7.8min  12.0min  12.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h            336          137     64ms     9.7s    55.1s   1.6min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        i            364          139     80ms   1.3min   7.7min   7.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        k            369          206     68ms   3.8min   8.5min   8.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    118,119,260   18,438,914     20ms     51ms    159ms     8.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      i    107,777,471    4,599,273     23ms     45ms    261ms     4.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      k    108,086,475   95,131,895     13ms     29ms    131ms     2.2s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          2,304          432     20ms     40ms     78ms    117ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  i          2,032           54     22ms     31ms     86ms    102ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  k          1,984        1,818     13ms     20ms     38ms    212ms             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/v3/2026-09-25/15/2026-09-25T15.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-25T15.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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