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Hour audit: 2026-09-25T22

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-25T22 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-25T22:00:00.000277241+00:00 · last event 2026-09-25T22:59:59.999941625+00:00
VOLUME      110,675,082 rows · 1,150,381,356 bytes (1.07 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   hik — 3 machines contributed rows
            captured  k: 110,202,087 · i: 110,100,976 · h: 105,345,197   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  k: 99,032,038 (89.48%) · i: 4,979,410 (4.50%) · h: 6,663,634 (6.02%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cghik), 2 contributed nothing: c, g
INTEGRITY   sha256 d82159bd6e1690a2f4f3e587bbfce7050627a49fe2406474099c8368535abeb2
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 110,675,482 to merged 110,675,082, minus 400 (minus 0.0004%)
            boundary drops 400 · 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 2026-09-26T01:00:09Z 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          10,589,683    117,137,291         0-40  0fefb7d279e6025950b0f0dcd1a40c2d24b4ff220f2e50e25404267099f01d3c
book                     633,624     57,566,100        41-43  df195159c683675b59680986192a82ed08da5e5e02d885783d03670f5cfdb1ff
last_trade_price          46,377      2,680,684        44-44  63512ea3e81adad2008af651f127df05c2eea3ef72f21ef1f9bb32b323212c6a
market_resolved            2,340        346,527        45-45  7ef757f49852a799dfa01942923b3d99a9cfcc775f0bfc652bb90a4f0e34d6f9
new_market                 3,188        323,414        46-46  64bd663ebebd436079e6962426aab65a0af00f8eec4c1caeb0aa58e145309e3d
price_change          99,397,498    970,979,641       47-426  0ee4254e2b5a0a191b9b5246c770f9aa8b8cb20987d8fcaaa8f1b00c113b2a1b
tick_size_change           2,372         87,795      427-427  641a2167d861735957faebb7d83ba09e73284d87105382e58e13ce35c0eeae3c

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          99,397,498   89.81%
best_bid_ask          10,589,683    9.57%
book                     633,624    0.57%
last_trade_price          46,377    0.04%
new_market                 3,188   <0.01%
tick_size_change           2,372   <0.01%
market_resolved            2,340   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,589,723    10,589,683         40          53,207           PARTIAL
book                     633,742       633,624        118         218,199           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          46,377        46,377          0           3,275           PARTIAL
market_resolved            2,340         2,340          0           2,155           PARTIAL
new_market                 3,188         3,188          0           2,096           PARTIAL
price_change          99,397,740    99,397,498        242          91,802           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           2,372         2,372          0             593           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      h     10,103,781      543,381     18ms     49ms    522ms   1.6min             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      i     10,587,594      425,285     21ms     27ms    163ms     7.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      k     10,586,723    9,621,017     12ms     20ms    288ms   1.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              h        586,161      471,539     1.1h     4.1d    34.4d   119.0d             0  book_staleness
book              i        110,716       20,219     24ms   1.9min     7.3d   100.9d             0  book_staleness
book              k        210,941      141,866    12.7s     3.0d    34.3d   119.0d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  h         44,251        3,710     20ms     89ms    945ms    59.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  i         46,155        2,979     23ms     64ms    632ms     6.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  k         46,134       39,688     13ms     47ms    507ms    43.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h          2,147          244     19ms    12.4s    55.1s   6.8min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   i          2,155          119     21ms    25.6s    54.0s    55.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   k          2,155        1,977     13ms    27.8s    55.1s    55.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h          2,110          970    224ms    37.5s   2.0min   3.6min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        i          2,096        1,068    177ms    37.4s   1.8min   2.8min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        k          2,096        1,150    231ms    38.0s   1.8min   2.8min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h     94,604,455    5,643,650     18ms     53ms    576ms   1.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      i     99,349,888    4,529,652     21ms     31ms    230ms     7.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      k     99,351,666   89,224,196     12ms     24ms    323ms   1.3min             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          2,292          140     18ms     40ms     69ms    297ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  i          2,372           88     21ms     29ms     61ms     92ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  k          2,372        2,144     12ms     20ms     56ms    120ms             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/v3/2026-09-25/22/2026-09-25T22.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-25T22.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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