Will the NY Times run a hantavirus story above the fold by June 1?
Front-page print or top-of-homepage digital placement for ≥6 hours.
Resolves YES if a hantavirus-focused article appears on the NYT print front page OR is the lede of nytimes.com homepage for ≥6 consecutive hours, captured in two Wayback snapshots, before 2026-06-01.
On settlement the oracle attaches a signed snapshot of each source URL plus a SHA-256 hash of the page content captured at resolution time. Disputes have a 7-day arbitration window.
cited: NYT print archives + Wayback Machine snapshots
Resolution sources · 2
Cheap sentiment + earliest-mover for translated regional press. Run a dedup hash on titles + canonical URL.
Global news ingestion — geocoded, multilingual. Best signal for non-English regional outbreaks.
ETL workers poll these feeds and merge into the resolution oracle.full registry