⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if non-aligned economies pool reserves to insure against dollar weaponization?

Non-aligned economies pool reserves and build bilateral swap webs to insure against dollar weaponization, formalizing a parallel liquidity architecture.

7%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 7% · 90% range 0–18% · 40 analogues · measured class de_dollarization 58% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — de_dollarization ≈0.2857/yr → 58% in 3 yr58%
Analyst prior · editorial share 9% of the class5%
Pooled · weight 87%7%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)7%
Published7%

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-off shock. Non-aligned economies pool reserves and build bilateral swap webs to insure against dollar weaponization, formalizing a parallel liquidity architecture. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Real yields ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +5.3%
hist +0.63–+5.97% · other way +3.23% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -3.4%
hist -2.12–-1.04% · other way -0.37% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.5%
hist -1.57–-0.71% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
4Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.0%
hist -1.23–-0.72% · other way +2.23% (n=12)
5Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.8%
hist +0.27–+1.76% · other way -0.6% (n=12)
6S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.5%
hist -1.04–-0.52% · other way +0.57% (n=12)
7Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -1.18–-0.31% · other way +4.75% (n=12)
8TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -2.83–+0.41% · other way +2.51% (n=12)
9AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.16–-0.2% · other way -0.48% (n=12)
10Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.03–+1.26% · other way +0.88% (n=12)
11Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -4.36–+1.15% · other way +2.73% (n=12)
12Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.83–+0.03% · other way +1.61% (n=12)
13ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -2.59–+0.55% · other way -1.68% (n=12)
14MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.0%
hist -1.44–+4.79% · other way +26.92% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -2.5% · 30y Treasury yield +9bp · 10y Treasury yield +8bp · High-yield credit -0.6% · Financials -0.4% · JPMorgan -0.3%

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.

China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Russia central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 US List 3 tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods finalized 2018-09 US Section 301 List 1 tariffs take effect on China 2018-07 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 US Section 232 steel & aluminum tariffs imposed 2018-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 US-Japan auto trade war: 100% luxury-car tariff threat 1995-05 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 Louvre Accord 1987-02 US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangement signed 1986-09 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Japan agrees to auto voluntary export restraints 1981-05 Reagan assassination attempt 1981-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Nixon Shock 1971-08 JFK assassination 1963-11 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10 Korean War begins 1950-06 FDR gold confiscation & revaluation 1933-04 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act signed 1930-06
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-1.8% · 5d +0.5% ↺ fades81%20 0.52⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+15.3% · 5d +5.4%78%8 0.45✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.2%69%21 0.36✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-5.5% · 5d -7.6%67%15 0.26✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.8%63%30 0.21✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.5% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades63%20 0.21⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.4%63%20 0.20✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%62%21 0.20✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+1.0% · 5d -10.6% ↺ fades67%8 0.20⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+1.8% · 5d -2.1% ↺ fades60%20 0.19⚠ differs
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.4% · 5d -3.6%62%21 0.18✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-1.4% · 5d -1.1%59%30 0.15✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-1.1% · 5d -2.3%58%21 0.11✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-1.4% · 5d -2.2%57%23 0.11✓ matches cascade

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.