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

What if security curbs split the global cloud and data-centre market?

Security-driven curbs on cross-border cloud, data flows and data-center components bifurcate the global digital-infrastructure market into rival blocs.

9%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 9% · 90% range 1–17% · 40 analogues · measured class tech_ai_bear 92% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — tech_ai_bear ≈0.8595/yr → 92% in 3 yr92%
Analyst prior · editorial share 9% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published9%

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. Security-driven curbs on cross-border cloud, data flows and data-center components bifurcate the global digital-infrastructure market into rival blocs. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — AI capex ▼ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · 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▲ +6.5%
hist +0.58–+7.53% · other way -2.93% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -3.9%
hist -2.34–-0.98% · other way +0.03% (n=12)
3Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.8%
hist -1.85–-0.89% · other way +1.37% (n=12)
4Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.5%
hist -1.95–-0.44% · other way +4.19% (n=12)
5Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.8%
hist -1.69–-0.96% · other way +0.4% (n=12)
6Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.4–-0.02% · other way +5.73% (n=12)
7Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -3.11–+0.23% · other way -1.63% (n=12)
8TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.0%
hist -3.04–+0.14% · other way +1.86% (n=12)
9AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -0.98–-0.48% · other way -3.31% (n=12)
10Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.69–-0.27% · other way +0.78% (n=12)
11ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -3.18–+0.52% · other way -0.21% (n=12)
12S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.4%
hist -1.99–+0.02% · other way +1.24% (n=12)
13MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -2.04–+2.06% · other way +10.05% (n=12)
14Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.3%
hist -7.63–+3.16% · other way -17.09% (n=11)

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 -2.8% · Chinese yuan -0.8% · High-yield credit -0.8% · Financials -0.5% · Aussie dollar -0.5% · Lockheed +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.

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 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Meta 2022-02 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Nvidia crypto-glut guidance crash 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 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 JFK assassination 1963-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-6.8% · 5d -6.7%72%22 0.35✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.3%66%28 0.31✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-1.1% · 5d +0.7% ↺ fades68%27 0.29✓ matches cascade
KWEB KWEBSHORT-2.4% · 5d -1.2%65%26 0.25✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.8% · 5d -3.2%68%28 0.24✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.4%63%28 0.22✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-3.9% · 5d -3.7%64%26 0.21✓ matches cascade
KRW KRWLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades61%27 0.20⚠ differs
FCX FCXSHORT-3.9% · 5d -1.6%62%29 0.20✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.2%63%34 0.19✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.1% · 5d -1.6%61%36 0.18✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMLONG+1.3% · 5d +0.0%61%36 0.17⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-6.8% · 5d -8.0%62%15 0.16✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.4%60%27 0.16✓ 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.