EVOLVED 2026-05-23 R31-A (split + rename, silver-pivot leg retired-with-verdict disproven). Gold has now failed to bid on 5 consecutive falsification windows: Iran blockade, late-May 'nonlinear' countdown, oil pullback (rate-cut tailwind), margin dollar softening, May 2026 macro/yields/PPI week. Recovery thesis is dead; April 14 reframe ('structurally dead safe haven') is the working thesis. GDX leads metal lower (downtrend continues, 30d -15%+). Silver-pivot leg disproven — SLV/SIL/GDX 7d -10%/-10%/-13% on the R15 5/19 tape confirmed R17's escalation from R12's contested to disproven. Capital that should have rotated to silver did not; it rotated to BTC + miners + IBIT (see same-session crypto-geopolitics FOLD into ai-power-bottleneck). Dollar-decoupling test (UUP < 27.10 with GLD failing to bid) remains the single cleanest structural-death invalidator. DOWNGRADED 2026-06-03 (active→monitoring, priority high→low): the named full-breakdown trigger GLD < $410 FIRED (GLD $407.87, RSI 38, -20% from 52wk high); dollar is firm not soft (UUP $27.86 RSI 63 strong-up) so gold's no-bid is plain inverse correlation reasserting — the anomaly has become the baseline; silver/miners are…