# Machine-Readable Market State
**Entity class:** Markets and data concept
## Definition
A **machine-readable market state** is a standardized representation of prices, identities, obligations, eligibility, provenance, risk, reference values, and physical conditions that software can use inside trading, clearing, benchmark, compliance, and settlement workflows.
## Relationships
- **market infrastructure:** [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|Intercontinental Exchange]], [[wiki/ICE Data Services|ICE Data Services]], and [[wiki/ICE Benchmark Administration|IBA]].
- **physical-world inputs:** [[wiki/ICE Commodity Traceability|ICE CoT]], [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]], and [[wiki/Computable Provenance|Computable Provenance]].
- **systems frame:** [[wiki/Observation-to-Decision Stack|Observation-to-Decision Stack]].
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- Editorial synthesis grounded in ICE’s published corporate and ICE CoT architecture.