Signal Index
What a Time Seventeen Index represents as a shared, auditable benchmark.
Draft v0.1 — design contract, not yet a live service
This documentation set defines a proposed Time Seventeen protocol for review and implementation planning. https://api.t17.capital is the approved and reserved REST origin, but neither that origin nor any documented endpoint is claimed to be live. The WebSocket origin remains unspecified. Credentials, chain IDs, contract addresses, rate limits, and SLAs remain unapproved; IDs, prices, and timestamps shown throughout are illustrative, not real production data.
An Index is Time Seventeen’s shared, auditable benchmark: a packaged, versioned combination of weighted prediction-market Constituents. It gives research, risk, portfolio, and execution workflows a common reference point over markets that would otherwise need to be tracked individually — analogous in use case to how an ETF basket, a catastrophe-bond exposure, or a war/conflict index gives a single reference number over many underlying positions, without Time Seventeen claiming any of those regulated classifications for itself.
Why an index-centric benchmark
- A single Index value can stand in for many Markets, reducing the integration burden of tracking each Market’s price individually.
- Because every Index value traces to an immutable Index Version, a reader can reproduce why the number is what it is, not just observe the number.
- Because index calculation cites source Market Price Observations, degraded or stale inputs are visible in the output rather than silently smoothed away.
Point-in-time reproducibility
The defining property of a Time Seventeen Index is that any published value can be traced back to:
- the Index Version (immutable methodology + constituent set + weights) active at that time,
- the source Market Price Observations that fed the calculation,
- the methodology version that defined the calculation rule,
- the calculation, source, and publication timestamps, and
- the data-quality/status flag (
valid,indicative,stale,degraded,suspended,corrected) describing how much to trust the value.
See Pricing for the full price/observation model and Index Lifecycle for how versions are published, rebalanced, and corrected.
What this page does not claim
- Time Seventeen indexes are not represented as registered funds, securities, or regulated benchmarks.
- No calculation formula, eligibility threshold, or numeric weight cap in this documentation is a production guarantee; all such values are Draft v0.1 design choices pending implementation review.
- No text on this page or elsewhere in these docs is investment advice or a trading guarantee.
Where to go next
- Product Model for the full resource hierarchy.
- Index Lifecycle for publication, rebalance, suspension, and correction.
- Pricing for how index levels and market prices are calculated and published.
- API Reference → Indexes for the concrete endpoint contract.