Market Chronicle Public Indicator Ledger — Monthly Snapshot (2026-07, superseded first cut)

Market Chronicle Public Indicator Ledger — Monthly Snapshot (2026-07, superseded first cut) This is the first cut of the 2026-07 edition, kept as published. It was packaged from the repository state of 2026-08-03, after the month had ended, so its hash chain runs past July: 13 rows, covering 2026-07-19 to 2026-08-03, instead of stopping at the month-end commit. Nothing in it is wrong as data — every row is genuine — but as a frozen "July" snapshot the cut point was wrong. The corrected edition, cut exactly at the July month-end commit (12 rows, 2026-07-19 to 2026-07-31), is published as its own version of this record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21783687. Cite that one for 2026-07. This record stays available rather than being deleted, which is the same rule the project applies to its own hash chain: published records are never silently rewritten or removed; corrections are stated in the open. A frozen, citable copy of the public indicator ledger of Market Chronicle (chronicle.klay-wang.com), with the append-only hash chain that makes silent edits and silent deletions detectable. Evidence, not a data product. This Zenodo record archives the repository's source snapshot: the chain and data are under data/, and the recipe for recomputing them is in data/README.md. What this proves: the packaged files hash to the values recorded in the chain, and no day can be removed or altered without breaking every later chain value. What it does not prove: the chain begins 2026-07-19, later than the site's launch; and readings before launch (July 2026) are reproducible backfill from public data, not an ex-ante record. The chain keeps them from being silently edited; it does not age them. The bundle carries two gauges and one ledger of outcomes — the KAPX Index (kindex files) and the Fear-Price Index (leaps and gauge_math files), plus the volatility family, short-flow, short-interest and audit files. Licensing follows the repository: the compilation, derived metrics and ledger structure are under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; the underlying values are facts transcribed from public sources and carry no ownership claim from us. The quarterly extracts on Kaggle / Hugging Face are separately released under CC BY 4.0.