🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if China's e-CNY scales cross-border, chipping at dollar invoicing?

A wholesale e-CNY corridor for commodity and trade settlement gains traction, marginally eroding dollar dominance and supporting de-dollarization themes that bid gold over time.

23%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 23% · 90% range 6–40% · 40 analogues · measured class de_dollarization 94% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — de_dollarization ≈0.2857/yr → 94% in 10 yr94%
Analyst prior · editorial share 23% of the class22%
Pooled · weight 87%24%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)24%
Published23%

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 3–10 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. A wholesale e-CNY corridor for commodity and trade settlement gains traction, marginally eroding dollar dominance and supporting de-dollarization themes that bid gold over time. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — US dollar (DXY) ▼ · Gold ▲ · China stimulus ▲ · Crypto confidence ▼ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ — 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
1Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.9%
hist +0.7–+1.26% · other way +1.03% (n=12)
2US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -1.1%
hist -0.78–-0.37% · other way -0.29% (n=12)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist -2.1–+7.3% · other way -8.21% (n=12)
4EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +1.0%
hist +0.34–+0.68% · other way +0.39% (n=12)
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -3.36–+0.77% · other way -7.55% (n=12)
6GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.8%
hist +0.19–+0.66% · other way +0.05% (n=12)
7Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.8%
hist -1.52–+0.8% · other way +0.02% (n=12)
8Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist -4.02–+1.48% · other way -5.09% (n=12)
9Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chartFX▲ +0.6%
hist +0.09–+0.36% · other way +0.22% (n=12)
10Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▲ +0.7%
hist +0.02–+0.37% · other way -0.07% (n=12)
11USD/JPY USDJPYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -0.37–-0.06% · other way -1.01% (n=12)
12Korean won KRWon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.6%
hist -0.02–+0.28% · other way +0.37% (n=12)
1330y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +6bp
hist +0.8–+3.94% · other way -7.2% (n=12)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +5bp
hist +0.17–+3.71% · other way -10.0% (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): Turkish lira +0.8% · Aussie dollar +0.6% · Indian rupee +0.7% · 30y Treasury yield +6bp · 10y Treasury yield +5bp · Chinese yuan +0.5%

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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+2.1% · 5d +0.3%73%39 0.42⚠ differs
KRW KRWSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.3% ↺ fades63%37 0.24⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-3.9% · 5d -6.2%63%37 0.21⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-1.7% · 5d +0.7% ↺ fades63%37 0.20⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-2.7% · 5d -7.0%61%37 0.18✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+6.2% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades59%37 0.17✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades61%37 0.15⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades56%37 0.12⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+3.4% · 5d +0.9%56%37 0.11✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%56%37 0.10⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades56%37 0.09·
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades54%37 0.07⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-1.1% · 5d -1.8%53%38 0.06✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDLONG+0.2% · 5d +0.3%51%37 0.02✓ 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.