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What happened

No numerical Daily Tape edition was published on 14 August 2026.

The checks introduced after the previous day's withdrawal could not establish that the sources being read were the same ones the series had been reading. Without that continuity, Stable Tape could not publish the day's reading with enough confidence, so it published none.

The detailed evidence from that run was not durably kept. Stable Tape cannot now show exactly what each source returned at the time, and so will not reconstruct or backfill a numerical 14 August edition afterwards.

The missing evidence is not itself proof that anything further was wrong. It means the day cannot be settled after the fact, which is why it stays open rather than being filled in.

What it means for the record

There is no numerical Daily Tape edition for 14 August, and there will not be one later.

Stable Tape did not carry another day's value forward, substitute a later snapshot, estimate the daily movement, reconstruct the reading afterwards, or publish a Signal for the date.

The date remains NO FIXING in the record and in the archive.

What changed

From 15 August onward, every observation a daily reading depends on is preserved durably and checked before the reading can go ahead. Each day's sources are recorded before the fixing moment, at it, and after it, and no determination proceeds unless those observations are present and agree.

This is what was missing on 14 August: not the reading itself, but the durable evidence needed to stand behind it.

What happened

Stable Tape published a Daily Tape edition on 13 August 2026 and withdrew it after identifying an error in how one source value had been handled.

One of the supply figures had already been adjusted for market value by the source it came from. Stable Tape applied a market-value adjustment to that figure a second time. The double adjustment inflated the holding, and with it the stablecoin total for the day.

The error was in Stable Tape's own processing of the source, not in the underlying holding.

What it means for the record

The original 13 August edition is preserved. It remains published at its own dated address, with its original figures unchanged, as part of the historical record.

It should not be relied upon as a valid Daily Tape reading. It is marked WITHDRAWN wherever it appears and is excluded from the benchmark series.

No assessment, Signal, selection, share card or social post is published for a withdrawn edition.

What changed

Stable Tape strengthened the checks that sit between reading a source and publishing a reading, so that a value already adjusted upstream is not adjusted again, and so that an implausible total stops publication rather than reaching the page.

These checks close a known way of getting this wrong. They do not make the process infallible.