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Hour audit: 2026-09-26T00

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-26T00 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-26T00:00:00.000001490+00:00 · last event 2026-09-26T00:59:59.999117058+00:00
VOLUME      123,235,313 rows · 1,320,127,046 bytes (1.23 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   hik — 3 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 122,122,437 · i: 115,799,425 · k: 111,797,415   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 13,862,409 (11.25%) · i: 10,958,052 (8.89%) · k: 98,414,852 (79.86%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cghik), 2 contributed nothing: c, g
INTEGRITY   sha256 c3e574c78d9a324dda2ebef52d44e553cdb3946c18211dd5f69df4060f4bc533
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 123,238,125 to merged 123,235,313, minus 2,812 (minus 0.0023%)
            boundary drops 2,812 · 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 2026-09-26T02:38:58Z 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          12,419,132    139,473,873         0-47  d1ed72747492a5e3c44d6d5502475e6179670c01ecb4a5c4e209522a8d9f28b0
book                   1,164,920     71,385,031        48-52  5695430e4e66cf327dd7420dd093b1a4251f57b3d34bd2469837f343e7894d43
last_trade_price          47,659      2,766,430        53-53  dff8da1af6607ecf9b06f77b5fbced8f13a387c98c79b571247e2fd0e9ee0d97
market_resolved            1,191        159,672        54-54  d0d88fc4b90e55a551d97269aa5057e564e82a1049022f7c282f640c0817a542
new_market                 2,793        284,611        55-55  00bb5888b26de8b41ba4f5e03a08d6ae5f34f38f1c2842e78627bc58eff3cb52
price_change         109,594,246  1,104,458,467       56-474  95c4246f48b7e43e2f4aa407bfa856fd93adc6b606be6d9ef9a1fb2298be4abe
tick_size_change           5,372        197,812      475-475  f1f5bbb4bcc94af4f09204a2b3a70bd7ecc29436d72dcd570663a3fd45acd2c8

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         109,594,246   88.93%
best_bid_ask          12,419,132   10.08%
book                   1,164,920    0.95%
last_trade_price          47,659    0.04%
tick_size_change           5,372   <0.01%
new_market                 2,793   <0.01%
market_resolved            1,191   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          12,419,162    12,419,132         30          54,638           PARTIAL
book                   1,165,172     1,164,920        252         217,468           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          47,659        47,659          0           3,452           PARTIAL
market_resolved            1,191         1,191          0             979           PARTIAL
new_market                 2,793         2,793          0           1,834           PARTIAL
price_change         109,596,776   109,594,246      2,530          91,875           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           5,372         5,372          0           1,343           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      h     12,417,842    1,338,959     18ms     50ms    288ms    34.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      i     11,828,149    1,009,344     20ms     27ms    114ms     2.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      k     11,347,712   10,070,829     13ms     22ms    149ms    12.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              h        101,917       13,248     24ms    200ms    13.8h   100.6d             0  book_staleness
book              i        719,878      376,614     1.2h     4.2d    36.2d   119.1d             0  book_staleness
book              k        987,972      775,058     1.6h     4.2d    41.4d   119.1d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  h         47,440        5,736     20ms     82ms    522ms    15.2s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  i         44,179        4,900     22ms     60ms    394ms     1.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  k         43,408       37,023     14ms     40ms    300ms     8.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            979          127     19ms    16.6s    41.5s    47.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   i            972          186     21ms    13.0s   4.5min   7.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   k          1,091          878     15ms   6.0min   9.4min  11.3min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h          1,831          584    122ms    17.3s   2.3min   4.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        i          1,937        1,078     92ms   4.4min   6.4min    19.9h             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        k          2,213        1,131    118ms   7.0min    19.4h    20.0h             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    109,547,056   12,503,220     18ms     55ms    322ms    34.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      i    103,199,190    9,565,553     20ms     31ms    157ms     2.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      k     99,409,843   87,525,473     13ms     24ms    159ms    12.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          5,372          535     18ms     53ms    239ms     3.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  i          5,120          377     20ms     36ms    113ms    332ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  k          5,176        4,460     13ms     28ms    202ms     5.0s             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/v3/2026-09-26/00/2026-09-26T00.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-26T00.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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