ManifoldPlay moneyAI / TechDevelopingUpdated 9m ago

Will ANOTHER millennium prize problem be solved in 2026?

As of Oct 23, 2026, 10:23 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 34.6% (up from 33.5% 24 hours earlier). It had 26.6K mana traded in the past 24 hours and 5.2K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
34.6%
+1.1 percentage points
over 24 hours33.5% → 34.6%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

5.2K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

26.6K mana

Total volume

625.4K mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
47%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

42

Trades

107

over 40h

Largest order

5K mana

20.9K mana traded across these 107 trades (last 40h).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$20.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Resolution criteria This market will resolve to YES if, between September 9, 2026, and December 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM UTC, a proposed solution for at least one of the remaining five Millennium Prize Problems is formally announced or published. The five eligible problems for this market are: P versus NP The Riemann Hypothesis Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap The Hodge Conjecture The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectu…

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View full official resolution rules

Resolution criteria This market will resolve to YES if, between September 9, 2026, and December 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM UTC, a proposed solution for at least one of the remaining five Millennium Prize Problems is formally announced or published. The five eligible problems for this market are: P versus NP The Riemann Hypothesis Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap The Hodge Conjecture The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture For the purposes of this market's resolution: Navier–Stokes Existence and Smoothness is excluded from resolving this market to YES. OpenAI announced a proposed solution to Navier–Stokes on September 8, 2026. This market specifically tracks whether another (i.e., a third) Millennium Prize Problem will have a solution claimed or published in 2026. Poincaré Conjecture is excluded as it was solved prior to 2026. The proposed solution must be put forward by a recognized mathematician, a reputable academic institution, or a major AI/technology research organization (such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, etc.). The announcement must be accompanied by a published paper, a public preprint (such as on arXiv), or a formalized computer-verified proof (such as in Lean or Coq). The solution does not need to be officially verified or awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute by the end of 2026 (as CMI rules require a two-year waiting period after publication). However, the solution must not be widely debunked or retracted by the mathematical community before December 31, 2026. If no other eligible Millennium Prize Problem has a proposed solution announced by the end of 2026, this market will resolve to NO. Background The Millennium Prize Problems are seven mathematical puzzles selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, each carrying a $1 million prize for a correct solution. For over two decades, the Poincaré Conjecture (solved by Grigori Perelman in 2002–2003) was the only solved problem. On September 8, 2026, OpenAI published a paper claiming that an unreleased internal AI system had solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem by proving that the equations can develop a singularity in finite time. This market is designed to predict if the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities or human mathematical breakthroughs will result in yet another of the remaining five unsolved classic problems being solved before the end of 2026. Update 2026-09-10 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): If a proposed solution is neither widely debunked nor widely accepted (remains controversial) by December 31, 2026: The creator will delay resolution for 2 to 3 months after the market closes. If the proof remains controversial after this period, the creator is leaning toward resolving the market to NO or N/A (rather than YES), and will consult with moderators and mathematicians to make a final decision. Update 2026-09-21 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - The controversy clause applies strictly to the mathematical validity of the proof itself (e.g., disputed proofs like the ABC conjecture), not to public relations or circumstances surrounding the announcement. An announcement similar to the Navier-Stokes release will resolve to YES.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesJanuary 1, 2027 at 2:59 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 23, 10:32 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±19 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
20Low
Where the price path tends to go next1513 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting97%
  • Stable consensus2%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~3h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

Secondary read: leaning toward Trading normally.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H-0.56H+1.124H+1.17D+1.1

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