🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if BRICS+ expansion and BRICS Pay scale settlement?

An enlarged BRICS bloc routes a rising share of trade through BRICS Pay and local-currency netting, chipping at dollar invoicing and supporting gold and the yuan.

24%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 0–49% · 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 43% of the class25%
Pooled · weight 87%25%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)25%
Published24%

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. An enlarged BRICS bloc routes a rising share of trade through BRICS Pay and local-currency netting, chipping at dollar invoicing and supporting gold and the yuan. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Gold ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · Geopolitical risk ▲ — 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▲ +3.7%
hist -0.68–+8.36% · other way +3.23% (n=12)
2Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.9%
hist +0.08–+2.44% · other way -0.6% (n=12)
3Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.5%
hist -0.92–-0.4% · other way -0.37% (n=12)
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.4%
hist -1.91–+8.28% · other way +26.92% (n=12)
5S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.9%
hist -0.64–-0.31% · other way +0.57% (n=12)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -0.72–+0.03% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -4.76–+1.66% · other way +5.17% (n=12)
8Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.52–+0.38% · other way +2.23% (n=12)
9Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -4.71–+14.64% · other way +21.23% (n=12)
10US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.4–-0.1% · other way +0.41% (n=12)
1130y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +4bp
hist -0.29–+6.3% · other way +12.4% (n=12)
12Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.45–-0.13% · other way +4.75% (n=12)
13EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist +0.02–+0.31% · other way -0.46% (n=12)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +4bp
hist -0.43–+5.79% · other way +12.3% (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 -1.0% · 30y Treasury yield +4bp · 10y Treasury yield +4bp · High-yield credit -0.4% · Turkish lira +0.3% · Lockheed +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.

Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 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 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Russia cut from SWIFT + central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 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 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 Louvre Accord 1987-02 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 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 clears the US House 1929-05 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 Operation Sindoor: India strikes Pakistan after Pahalgam attack 2025-05 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 South Korea martial law crisis 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%68%25 0.35⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+13.2% · 5d +3.0%68%17 0.33✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+5.9% · 5d +5.2%67%27 0.30✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-1.5% · 5d -0.8%68%31 0.28✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+4.0% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades64%24 0.27⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.5% · 5d -3.9%65%23 0.23⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+6.9% · 5d -1.4% ↺ fades63%25 0.22✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.2%64%24 0.22⚠ differs
MU MUSHORT-4.3% · 5d -2.8%62%30 0.21✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-0.8% · 5d +1.2% ↺ fades64%24 0.19⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.3%61%24 0.18✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades61%24 0.18⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+1.4% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades61%25 0.17✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.9%60%30 0.15✓ 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.