What we called → what happened
THE CALL
US x Iran diplomatic meeting by August 31, 2026?
Polymarket was sharper on this question — by lower Brier against the same outcome.
The market-implied probability on the day we sealed our call, pinned once and never re-snapshotted. We forecast independently — the market is the benchmark, not an input.
Resolved by independent prediction-market settlement: the matched Polymarket market "US x Iran diplomatic meeting by August 31, 2026?" settled NO. CrisisBrief's sealed forecast is graded against that same outcome. The link to that market is ledger entry 9488, sealed late: the link was made before links were sealed.
Adversarial verification: confirmed (independent verdict: false).
This forecast’s hash was committed on 2026-08-19 03:31Z and the chain covering it was anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain on 2026-08-19 05:38Z — before the outcome was settled on 2026-10-07 03:00Z. It could not have been backdated or rewritten.
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