What if a celebrity token pumps 50x then collapses?
A celebrity token's 50x-then-collapse triggers lawsuits and delistings, a localized confidence hit that bleeds into broad alt beta (ETH -4.2%) via retail risk-off. Rhymes with the 2021 SafeMoon/celebrity-promo busts and the Jan-2025 memecoin fades. Forward angle: regulatory promoter-liability precedent now attaches faster, so delisting and legal overhang compress the recovery more than earlier celebrity pumps.
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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
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. A global celebrity launches a token that spikes 50x intraday then collapses, prompting class-action lawsuits and exchange delistings. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Crypto confidence ▼ · Crypto liquidity ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.