📈 Markets & Finance risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if AI compute demand reroutes to crypto-mining and BTC rallies?

Idle and purpose-built compute plus an AI-driven risk-on regime lift Bitcoin alongside the AI trade as capital chases the same secular-tech narrative.

22%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 22% · 90% range 7–38% · 40 analogues · measured class tech_ai_bull 57% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — tech_ai_bull ≈0.2842/yr → 57% in 3 yr57%
Analyst prior · editorial share 38% of the class22%
Pooled · weight 87%23%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)23%
Published22%

The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.

The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. Idle and purpose-built compute plus an AI-driven risk-on regime lift Bitcoin alongside the AI trade as capital chases the same secular-tech narrative. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Bitcoin ▲ · AI capex ▲ · Crypto confidence ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

If it happens — the markets it would move

Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.

MarketClassProjected move
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +3.6%
hist -5.11–+17.03% · other way +10.54% (n=12)
2Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +2.6%
hist -0.55–+1.94% · other way -13.64% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +2.1%
hist -11.84–+1.73% · other way -9.81% (n=11)
4Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +2.0%
hist -0.2–+3.1% · other way -12.06% (n=12)
5Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.3%
hist -4.07–+9.87% · other way +4.29% (n=11)
6Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +1.2%
model prior · unmeasured
7Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.52–+2.04% · other way +0.32% (n=12)
8Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -0.12–+1.09% · other way +1.41% (n=12)
9Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -0.02–+0.44% · other way -0.52% (n=12)
10Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist +0.12–+0.44% · other way +1.99% (n=12)
11Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.4%
hist -0.21–+0.37% · other way +0.31% (n=12)
12Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.4%
hist -0.63–+0.89% · other way -3.32% (n=12)
13AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -1.81–+0.6% · other way +0.9% (n=12)
14TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist +0.09–+0.22% · other way +2.45% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +0.3% · High-yield credit +0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.

Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 ChatGPT launches 2022-11 AlphaFold cracks the protein-folding problem 2020-11 AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 2016-03 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 First US spot Solana ETFs begin trading 2025-10 Bitcoin reaches record near $126,000 2025-10 SEC clears first US Ethereum staking ETF 2025-09 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Coinbase set to join the S&P 500 2025-05 Robinhood Q4 2024 earnings beat on 400%+ crypto volume surge 2025-02 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Bitcoin hits all-time high near $109k on Trump inauguration day 2025-01 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Marvell's Q3 FY2025 AI-silicon results drive a record surge 2024-12 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Trump 2024 election win 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 TSMC's Q3 2024 blowout lifts shares on surging AI demand 2024-10 Nvidia slips despite a Q2 FY2025 earnings beat 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 US spot Ethereum ETFs begin trading 2024-07 Trump assassination attempt 2024-07 Nvidia becomes world's most valuable company 2024-06 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 Bitcoin fourth halving coincides with Runes launch 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Nikkei 225 surpasses its 1989 bubble peak 2024-02 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 ARM's first earnings as a public company spark a huge rally 2024-02 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 Grayscale wins court ruling against SEC 2023-08 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 BlackRock files for a spot Bitcoin ETF 2023-06 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-10.0% · 5d -7.3%78%39 0.40⚠ differs
SPX SPXLONG+0.9% · 5d +0.6%72%40 0.37✓ matches cascade
ASML ASMLSHORT-2.9% · 5d -3.0%74%40 0.36⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-3.0% · 5d -2.6%74%40 0.36⚠ differs
INTC INTCSHORT-3.6% · 5d -1.8%66%40 0.31⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-1.7% · 5d -2.3%66%40 0.26⚠ differs
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades66%40 0.26·
XLK XLKSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.7%64%40 0.21⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+1.0% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades60%40 0.15·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%60%40 0.13⚠ differs
MRVL MRVLSHORT-0.4% · 5d -2.1%57%40 0.11⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+14.3% · 5d +1.6%55%40 0.10✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+0.7% · 5d -2.0% ↺ fades55%40 0.10✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-1.6% · 5d -2.3%56%39 0.09⚠ differs

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.