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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 Owns

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 live host balance
Product proofReady locally
Live host balance proofNot ready
Payment settlement executionNot wired
Refund executionNot wired

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

Policy state only until a future queue, expiry, or resume branch exists.

Refuse

Policy state only until a future refusal receipt and refund or no-charge receipt branch exists.

Quarantine

Policy state only until a quarantine lot, review, and terminal receipt branch 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.

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, and quarantine shortfall states do not execute until execution branches exist.

Bridge is not a desk

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