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Polymarket Orderbook Archive archive.pendulumflow.com

Hour audit: 2026-10-29T08

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Every number on this page is a stored measurement read from this hour's own records: its 2026-10-29T08.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 2026-10-29T08 · 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      52,827,109 rows · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   imopq — 5 machines contributed rows
            captured  q: 104,898,119 · i: 104,499,163 · m: 104,497,661 · o: 104,490,716 · p: 104,434,680   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  q: 500,386 (0.48%) · i: 27,055 (0.03%) · m: 54,877 (0.05%) · o: 59,721 (0.06%) · p: 104,434,640 (99.39%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            6 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 105,077,095 to merged 105,076,679, minus 416 (minus 0.0004%)
            boundary drops 416 · 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           7,809,497      not meas.    not meas.  not published
book                     359,424      not meas.    not meas.  not published
last_trade_price          51,048      not meas.    not meas.  not published
market_resolved              765      not meas.    not meas.  not published
new_market                   633      not meas.    not meas.  not published
price_change          44,603,646      not meas.    not meas.  not published
tick_size_change           2,096      not meas.    not meas.  not published

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          44,603,646   84.43%
best_bid_ask           7,809,497   14.78%
book                     359,424    0.68%
last_trade_price          51,048    0.10%
tick_size_change           2,096   <0.01%
market_resolved              765   <0.01%
new_market                   633   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          15,118,452    15,118,376         76              42              FULL
book                     696,561       696,527         34         249,418              FULL
last_trade_price          51,048        51,048          0               0              FULL
market_resolved              765           765          0               4              FULL
new_market                   633           633          0               0              FULL
price_change          89,207,540    89,207,234        306              40              FULL
tick_size_change           2,096         2,096          0              10              FULL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      i     15,117,904          121     22ms     26ms    103ms     3.1s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      m     15,118,059        1,365      6ms     13ms     73ms     9.5s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      o     15,117,796        1,500      6ms     13ms     73ms     9.5s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      p     15,115,182   15,115,174      5ms     12ms     64ms     5.4s             0  not stated
best_bid_ask      q     15,108,994          216     15ms     18ms     88ms    21.9s             0  not stated
book              i        129,377       23,977     25ms  24.6min    47.8d   134.4d             0  not stated
book              m        128,596       24,032     11ms  19.4min    42.4d   152.4d             0  not stated
book              o        128,286       23,752      9ms  19.9min    43.3d   152.4d             0  not stated
book              p        128,984      128,982      8ms  27.8min    39.8d   152.4d             0  not stated
book              q        647,808      495,784  11.7min    12.9h    67.8d   152.4d             0  not stated
last_trade_price  i         51,011            7     23ms     65ms    266ms     1.5s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  m         50,993          121      8ms     19ms    192ms     2.5s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  o         50,933          169      7ms     17ms    206ms     1.6s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  p         50,715       50,715      6ms     15ms    164ms     1.5s             0  not stated
last_trade_price  q         50,676           36     16ms     33ms    224ms     2.6s             0  not stated
market_resolved   i            616    not meas.     22ms     28ms    53.9s    54.4s             0  not stated
market_resolved   m            620          130      7ms    40.4s    46.8s   2.4min             0  not stated
market_resolved   o            616    not meas.      6ms     16ms    55.6s    55.9s             0  not stated
market_resolved   p            616          616      6ms     12ms     55ms    41.6s             0  not stated
market_resolved   q            616           19     15ms    36.6s    53.3s    55.8s             0  not stated
new_market        i            419           66     63ms    11.5s   1.1min   1.6min             0  not stated
new_market        m            419           57     50ms    10.2s   1.2min   1.9min             0  not stated
new_market        o            419           18     56ms    14.4s   1.1min   1.6min             0  not stated
new_market        p            419          419     24ms    14.7s    46.4s    50.6s             0  not stated
new_market        q            419           73     46ms    11.9s   1.5min   1.8min             0  not stated
price_change      i     89,197,740        2,884     22ms     27ms    146ms     3.4s             0  not stated
price_change      m     89,196,878       29,172      6ms     14ms     95ms     9.5s             0  not stated
price_change      o     89,190,570       34,282      6ms     14ms     95ms    10.1s             0  not stated
price_change      p     89,136,668   89,136,638      6ms     12ms     81ms     5.4s             0  not stated
price_change      q     89,087,550        4,258     15ms     19ms    109ms    21.9s             0  not stated
tick_size_change  i          2,096    not meas.     22ms     25ms     33ms     54ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  m          2,096    not meas.      6ms     12ms     23ms    148ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  o          2,096    not meas.      6ms     12ms     17ms    472ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  p          2,096        2,096      6ms     12ms     17ms     19ms             0  not stated
tick_size_change  q          2,056    not meas.     15ms     17ms    105ms    189ms             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/v3.1/2026-10-29/08/
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.

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