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Polymarket Orderbook Archive archive.pendulumflow.com

Hour audit: 2026-10-29T03

back to the files for this hour · how the archive is audited

Every number on this page is a stored measurement read from this hour's own records: its 2026-10-29T03.manifest.json, its witness statistics sidecar, and the corpus attestation. Nothing here is computed from the served bytes at the time you load the page, so no line below claims the bytes are correct. The digest and the one command that checks them are printed instead.

No findings

Every check that could be evaluated for this hour passed. That is not the same as the hour being perfect: it means the records this archive keeps about it agree with each other and with the corpus ledger.

4 checks could not be evaluated for this hour, listed with the reason in the block below. A check we could not run is recorded as exactly that, and never counted as a pass.

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-10-29T03 · corpus v3.1 · verdict AUDIT PENDING

COVERAGE    not measured (this hour is not in the corpus attestation, so we have not looked at it)
VOLUME      67,155,919 rows · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   imopq — 5 machines contributed rows
            captured  m: 132,803,920 · p: 132,802,283 · q: 132,798,575 · i: 132,792,563 · o: 128,366,790   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  m: 154,768 (0.12%) · p: 132,799,319 (99.45%) · q: 127,849 (0.10%) · i: 115,884 (0.09%) · o: 331,645 (0.25%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 product-machine pairs publish no supplied count, and the figures above do not reconcile to the file's row count, so the split is incomplete by an unrecorded amount
INTEGRITY   not measured (the manifest publishes no digest for this file)
            checksum ledger not read
            joined 133,540,866 to merged 133,529,465, minus 11,401 (minus 0.0085%)
            boundary drops 11,401 · 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     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      4/8 pass, 4 not evaluated
              PASS    all products present
              PASS    row counts reconcile
              SKIPPED the byte ranges could not be checked
              PASS    the merge delta is explained
              SKIPPED which machines were expected is not published beside this hour
              SKIPPED the checksum ledger could not be read
              SKIPPED the hour's minutes have not been measured
              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           7,262,550      not meas.    not meas.  not published
book                     521,488      not meas.    not meas.  not published
last_trade_price          57,154      not meas.    not meas.  not published
market_resolved            5,400      not meas.    not meas.  not published
new_market                   340      not meas.    not meas.  not published
price_change          59,301,345      not meas.    not meas.  not published
tick_size_change           7,642      not meas.    not meas.  not published

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          59,301,345   88.30%
best_bid_ask           7,262,550   10.81%
book                     521,488    0.78%
last_trade_price          57,154    0.09%
tick_size_change           7,642    0.01%
market_resolved            5,400   <0.01%
new_market                   340   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          13,839,535    13,839,442         93             717              FULL
book                   1,027,431     1,016,857     10,574         252,962              FULL
last_trade_price          57,154        57,154          0              48              FULL
market_resolved            5,400         5,400          0             172              FULL
new_market                   340           340          0               0              FULL
price_change         118,603,364   118,602,630        734             800              FULL
tick_size_change           7,642         7,642          0              36              FULL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      i     13,837,419           18     22ms     26ms     65ms     2.4s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      m     13,836,788        1,817      5ms     10ms     45ms     2.7s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      o     13,316,846        1,391      5ms     10ms     47ms     4.9s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      p     13,836,158   13,836,158      5ms      8ms     40ms     4.5s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      q     13,836,992           58     14ms     17ms     54ms     6.2s             0  not stated
book              i        303,510      115,375   1.4min     1.5d    64.4d   152.2d             0  not stated
book              m        323,600      131,104   1.9min     2.0d    65.5d   152.2d             0  not stated
book              o        700,275      310,511   7.5min     2.2d    67.6d   152.2d             0  not stated
book              p        336,792      333,852   2.4min     2.0d    67.5d   152.2d             0  not stated
book              q        320,472      126,015   1.8min     1.5d    65.6d   152.2d             0  not stated
last_trade_price  i         57,134            1     24ms     32ms    173ms     2.2s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  m         57,126           24      6ms     12ms    101ms     2.2s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  o         54,971           33      6ms     12ms     82ms     2.2s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  p         57,093       57,093      6ms     10ms     92ms     2.2s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  q         57,103            3     15ms     21ms    118ms     2.2s             0  not stated
market_resolved   i          4,552    not meas.     22ms     28ms    51.2s   2.4min             0  not stated
market_resolved   m          4,558          244      5ms     14ms    40.4s   2.2min             0  not stated
market_resolved   o          4,392          368      6ms     15ms    36.2s   1.8min             0  not stated
market_resolved   p          4,554        4,554      5ms     11ms    51.4s   2.5min             0  not stated
market_resolved   q          4,558          234     14ms    26.1s    50.6s   2.5min             0  not stated
new_market        i            254           18     42ms     8.3s   1.4min   1.6min             0  not stated
new_market        m            254           51     31ms    12.9s   1.4min   1.5min             0  not stated
new_market        o            254            8     27ms    11.0s   1.3min   1.7min             0  not stated
new_market        p            254          254     13ms    10.3s   1.3min   1.7min             0  not stated
new_market        q            254            9     23ms    11.5s    16.4s   1.6min             0  not stated
price_change      i    118,582,052          472     22ms     27ms     78ms     3.0s             0  not stated
price_change      m    118,573,952       21,528      5ms     10ms     52ms     3.2s             0  not stated
price_change      o    114,282,554       19,334      6ms     11ms     53ms     5.0s             0  not stated
price_change      p    118,559,790  118,559,766      5ms      8ms     47ms     4.6s             0  not stated
price_change      q    118,571,554        1,530     14ms     18ms     63ms     6.5s             0  not stated
tick_size_change  i          7,642    not meas.     22ms     27ms     87ms    140ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  m          7,642    not meas.      5ms      9ms     46ms    157ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  o          7,498    not meas.      6ms     11ms     53ms    227ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  p          7,642        7,642      5ms      7ms     38ms    291ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  q          7,642    not meas.     14ms     18ms     79ms    259ms             0  not stated

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/v3.1/2026-10-29/03/
sha256sum 
# 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.

Credit the collector: pendulumflow for V3 and V3.1, PMXT for V1 and V2, AG6 for their V2 archive. Ours is CC BY-NC 4.0, commercial licence by contact; PMXT's is CC BY 4.0; AG6 states no licence. How to cite.

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