Q markBridgeInventory Truth

Inventory And Liquidity Truth

Bridge can prove committed order records and local inventory receipts without pretending those receipts are live host balances or guaranteed public liquidity.

What Bridge Publishes

This page is the public product boundary for inventory, liquidity, shortfall, refund, and quarantine wording.

Evidence classCommitted native acquisition order records
Local receipt ledgerInventory receipt ledger, not automatic host-balance authority
Product proofLive-chain receipts with lane-specific boundaries
Pool value publicationAsset-first pool rows published on the ledger page
Host balance viewPublished only when source-backed and freshness-bounded
Payment settlementQuote, source receipt, finality, and receiver acknowledgement gated
Refund postureReceipt-gated; no public claim without a lane terminal state

Inventory Ledger Reads

The key distinction is simple: local Bridge records can be real without becoming host-chain spend authority.

Committed orderA native acquisition order can record payment intake, route, host asset, and inventory debit.Not liquidity
Inventory receiptReplenishment and depletion receipts prove local Bridge ledger activity.Not host balance
Available amountReserved, available, and pending amounts are product accounting labels.Not redemption
Payment intakePending payment settlement is tracked separately from settled bank movement.Not settled
OverpaymentSurplus stays separated from Bridge revenue unless a later law admits it.Not margin

Shortfall Posture

Shortfall handling is a product state machine, not a promise that Bridge will force every request through.

No shortfall

The order can be filled from recorded local inventory debit. This remains a committed-order record.

Source fresh

The order records a fresh-source amount as pending host fill. Host sourcing and owner-chain delivery evidence are still required later.

Defer

The lane can wait for inventory, source finality, receiver acknowledgement, or a fresher quote.

Refuse

The lane can close when route evidence is insufficient, expired, unsupported, or unsafe to settle.

Quarantine

Unmatched or unsafe value can be separated from spendable inventory until a terminal receipt exists.

Stale state

Stale quote and stale inventory refusal are normal safety outcomes.

Must Not Claim

These lines protect the product from sounding more open than it is.

Receipt is not host balance

Local inventory receipts do not prove live host-chain balances unless the page publishes a source-backed balance row.

Order is not liquidity

Committed orders do not become available public liquidity by existing.

Surplus is not revenue

Overpayment surplus stays separate from Bridge revenue.

Pending is not settled

Pending payment intake is not bank-settled or host-settled movement.

Policy is not execution

Defer, refuse, refund, and quarantine states need their own terminal receipt before they become a public outcome.

Bridge is not a desk

Bridge does not sell, redeem, swap, or mint wrapped host assets from this surface.