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docs: weighted median of oracle sources on the Oracle page - #322
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Each source in a perp market's oracle list can carry a weight (pod #175). The Oracle page now describes the weighted median, the N* spec prefix, and how weights change fault tolerance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Let's keep a note (that is more general for docs) to do another pass mostly for improving writeup when we have the bandwidth.
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doc/protocol/oracle.mdfor pod #175 (weighted median of multi-source oracle prices).weighttimes, and an exact-half split averages the two middle prices, so all-ones weights give the plain median. Examples come from the node'sweighted_mediantests.N*prefix in the oracle spec (1 to 65,535, default 1), changing weights throughupdateMarketOracle, repeated source/asset pairs rejected, a stale source leaving the vote with its whole weight.Not covered here:
POD_CLOB__WEIGHTED_ORACLE_DEADLINEactivation. The page describes post-activation behaviour.oracleSpecdescription inapi-reference/applications-precompiles/orderbook.md, which still omits the weight prefix.🤖 Generated with Claude Code