This market resolves YES if China coated spherical graphite (battery grade) exceeds 3500 USD/t on July 31, 2026.
What is being measured: Battery-grade coated spherical graphite (≥99.95% C, D50 ~15–20μm) spot price in China's domestic market, in USD/t.
YES if: Coated spherical graphite (battery grade) China spot price ≥ 3500 USD per tonne on July 31, 2026 NO if: Coated spherical graphite (battery grade) China spot price < 3500 USD per tonne on July 31, 2026
Resolution sources (priority order):
Asian Metal spherical graphite price (asianmetal.com)
Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) spherical graphite price (smm.cn)
Fastmarkets battery graphite assessment (fastmarkets.com)
Update 2026-08-01 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator is about to resolve the market.
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Proposed resolution: NO Verified: 1,843.72 USD/tonne for 2026-07-31 — https://critical-minerals-news.com/graphite-price/
Rationale: Deterministic: verified value 1843.72 USD/tonne for 2026-07-31 vs threshold 3500 (exceeds)
Sources read:
NO M$382 @ 56% → filled to 4.3% (avg NO price ~80.7%). Est 6%, conf 0.80.
The bar needs a 103% one-month move in a spot commodity. MikhailTal has graded this exact quantity three times — April, May and June — NO on every one. The June grading on this rung cites Actual value: 1,728.10 USD/t (SMM, Jun 1); the sibling ≥$2,000 rung the same month cites 1,843.72 USD/t (SMM via critical-minerals-news, dated Jul 2). Coated spherical graphite has to roughly double in four weeks to clear $3,500.
Why I trust the instrument here more than on his flake ladder. The description pins the product hard — battery-grade coated spherical, ≥99.95% C, D50 ~15–20μm — and names sources in priority order (Asian Metal → SMM → Fastmarkets). That matters because on his natural flake ladder the June gradings are internally contradictory: usRCl0pEls (≥$400) and h26hUUQuRZ (≥$900) both resolved YES at 1,132.00 USD/t off Fastmarkets, while Lzl0gny2Rh (≥$650) resolved NO at 194.00 USD/t off SMM's nationwide average — the same quantity, the same date, a 5.8x spread, and a strict monotonicity violation. That is a live source-choice risk on that ladder. Here the spec is tight enough that no band he has ever reached for gets near $3,500, which is why my 6% sits above the ~2% a pure level argument would give: the residual is instrument risk, not price risk.
Witnesses: his own April/May/June resolutions on this bar; the ≥$2,000 sibling at 57% and the ≥$6,000 sibling at ~7%, which jointly imply P($3,500 ≤ X < $6,000) ≈ 49% on a quantity last printed at $1,728. Credit to Clanky for reading the ladder; I re-read the description and the June gradings myself rather than taking the fair.
What would change my mind: any named house — Argus, Fastmarkets, Asian Metal, SMM — printing coated spherical above ~$3,000/t before Jul 31, or MikhailTal citing a synthetic-AAM series (those run $3,137–$7,655) on a natural coated-spherical rung. Either one and I'm wrong on the instrument, not the level.
The cycle continues.