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Hour audit: 2026-09-26T21

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-26T21 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-26T21:00:00.000001483+00:00 · last event 2026-09-26T21:59:59.999982667+00:00
VOLUME      140,652,387 rows · 1,573,721,664 bytes (1.47 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   chik — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  i: 130,265,692 · h: 129,493,065 · k: 119,364,638 · c: 74,841,727   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  i: 7,005,856 (4.98%) · h: 8,692,440 (6.18%) · k: 55,783,851 (39.66%) · c: 69,170,240 (49.18%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cghik), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 77de4b9975427cc79164f7916cb5ff8b18b5339c4c9e256a0df04708589ca95a
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 140,660,879 to merged 140,652,387, minus 8,492 (minus 0.0060%)
            boundary drops 8,492 · 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 2026-09-27T02:47:45Z as chik
            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          13,594,442    155,393,994         0-51  7c84024fef5162fbb975edc676ef10135f8c71d90ae5227bc08c5b8e91c973f6
book                   5,122,292    131,604,353        52-71  79ff1da4122292be266a1fce94d0283a5fee1b19ffc04daf4d9b976a70b50e21
last_trade_price          47,193      2,750,757        72-72  394330793b24950936e60070c256d0cbe466a784b6f5eafee8c7ad29754bbe11
market_resolved           82,556      1,994,612        73-73  fe5bd1f12b0c4036329608d383b43791d74e6273331dfce0dbf04b23acefa543
new_market                94,328      2,071,833        74-74  13b75b73fc245354c5a5945900f5e5a6b7051dc7f61fb071637a3d5cf1ae717d
price_change         121,704,416  1,278,051,523       75-539  87580e2983139b2f24b31277e46fbd1040636c2f4b93544b8d1c175354395078
tick_size_change           7,160        259,952      540-540  bdad0b0f5d56809e7c0bcef4669459a0db81adea3032a41c0282ab82cab30f31

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         121,704,416   86.53%
best_bid_ask          13,594,442    9.67%
book                   5,122,292    3.64%
new_market                94,328    0.07%
market_resolved           82,556    0.06%
last_trade_price          47,193    0.03%
tick_size_change           7,160   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          13,594,484    13,594,442         42          59,749           PARTIAL
book                   5,130,194     5,122,292      7,902         215,405           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          47,193        47,193          0           3,487           PARTIAL
market_resolved           82,558        82,556          2          10,306           PARTIAL
new_market                94,452        94,328        124          10,843           PARTIAL
price_change         121,704,838   121,704,416        422          98,009           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           7,160         7,160          0           1,790           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c      7,020,296    6,470,347      5ms     14ms    132ms     4.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     12,948,937      861,292     19ms     57ms    323ms   1.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      i     13,016,281      686,982     21ms     30ms    157ms     2.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      k     11,818,090    5,575,821     13ms     21ms    152ms    10.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c      4,666,736    4,569,372     1.4h     5.4d    45.3d   120.0d             0  book_staleness
book              h        520,594      129,379  26.8min     5.0d    35.3d   120.0d             0  book_staleness
book              i        520,062      103,921  23.2min     5.0d    35.3d   120.0d             0  book_staleness
book              k      1,356,834      319,620     1.1h     5.0d    44.8d   120.0d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         21,260       19,125      6ms     24ms    217ms     2.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         44,414        4,429     21ms     71ms    495ms   1.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  i         44,443        3,507     22ms     62ms    513ms     2.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  k         39,493       20,132     14ms     36ms    288ms     2.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c         81,290       80,442     1.2h     2.3h     3.1h     3.4h             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h          2,491          200     22ms    50.1s   7.7min   7.9min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   i          2,447          388     22ms    24.1s   3.4min   5.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   k          3,183        1,526     15ms   9.2min  14.2min  16.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c         94,052       92,317     1.0h     2.4h     3.0h     3.5h             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h          2,618          582    245ms   6.2min   6.6min   7.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        i          2,112          568    128ms    34.8s   1.5min   2.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        k          2,536          861    163ms   2.4min  10.9min  12.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     62,954,493   57,935,205      5ms     15ms    138ms     5.2s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    115,966,967    7,696,311     19ms     59ms    350ms   1.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      i    116,673,567    6,210,322     21ms     33ms    192ms     3.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      k    106,137,954   49,862,578     13ms     23ms    161ms    10.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          3,600        3,432      5ms      9ms     31ms     53ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          7,044          247     19ms     53ms    120ms     4.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  i          6,780          168     21ms     25ms     69ms    227ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  k          6,548        3,313     13ms     17ms     43ms    145ms             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/v3/2026-09-26/21/2026-09-26T21.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-26T21.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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