What if Congo cobalt refining onshores value at home?
The DRC builds domestic cobalt and copper refining capacity, capturing more of the battery-metal value chain and structurally strengthening its external accounts.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. The DRC builds domestic cobalt and copper refining capacity, capturing more of the battery-metal value chain and structurally strengthening its external accounts. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▲ · Clean-energy abundance ▲ · Global growth ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.8% hist -1.39–+0.5% · other way -3.89% (n=5) |
| 2 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.6% hist -2.52–+2.96% · other way -9.75% (n=5) |
| 3 | Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.7% hist -2.06–+0.8% · other way -4.7% (n=5) |
| 4 | ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.6% hist -1.61–+0.54% · other way +1.09% (n=12) |
| 5 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.6% hist +0.14–+0.72% · other way -0.11% (n=5) |
| 6 | WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.6% hist -2.47–+1.69% · other way -5.65% (n=5) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.5% model prior · unmeasured |
| 8 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.5% hist -15.09–+18.37% · other way +8.22% (n=5) |
| 9 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.5% hist +0.19–+0.5% · other way -1.39% (n=6) |
| 10 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.5% hist +0.17–+0.49% · other way +0.49% (n=5) |
| 11 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.4% hist -3.22–+4.51% · other way -4.93% (n=5) |
| 12 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.4% hist -3.42–+4.94% · other way -4.49% (n=5) |
| 13 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▼ -0.3% hist -6.83–+2.86% · other way +18.81% (n=6) |
| 14 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.3% hist -9.51–+11.96% · other way -1.59% (n=5) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 11 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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL DAL | LONG | +7.4% · 5d +0.8% | 78% | 8 | 0.50 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -6.4% · 5d -6.3% | 82% | 10 | 0.47 | ✓ matches cascade |
| BRENT BRENT | SHORT | -1.6% · 5d -5.6% | 67% | 8 | 0.27 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +12.6% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades | 64% | 6 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | LONG | +4.4% · 5d -4.9% ↺ fades | 64% | 6 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XLE XLE | LONG | +1.0% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades | 61% | 8 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| FCX FCX | LONG | +4.9% · 5d +0.9% | 61% | 8 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XCU XCU | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.6% | 61% | 8 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +1.6% · 5d +0.2% | 61% | 8 | 0.19 | · |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -3.2% · 5d -11.4% | 64% | 6 | 0.18 | ⚠ differs |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades | 61% | 8 | 0.15 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.4% | 61% | 8 | 0.15 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +1.9% · 5d +0.4% | 58% | 11 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +23.8% · 5d +8.7% | 58% | 5 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |