What if India emerges as a third pole between the US and China?
India as a decisive third pole is a mild pro-growth, mild dollar-diversification story, so the modeled move is a small risk-on tilt with gold/bitcoin softly bid and DXY a touch lower — MIXED, not risk-off. Rhymes with the post-2014 and Dec-2025 RBI growth-pivot phases that drew portfolio inflows into Indian equities and bonds (JPM index inclusion). Transmission: India balances US tech/capital against discounted Russian crude; forward angle — the cleanest expression is Indian equities, the rupee and local-currency bonds, not the US-centric gold/BTC cascade shown here.
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 mixed shock. India emerges as a decisive third pole, balancing between the US and China blocs. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Growth surprise ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +1.3% hist -5.83–+13.32% · other way +10.58% (n=10) |
| 2 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.7% hist -2.42–+7.08% · other way +0.27% (n=9) |
| 3 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.8% hist -0.11–+0.55% · other way +0.94% (n=10) |
| 4 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.5% hist -4.51–+9.56% · other way +12.95% (n=8) |
| 5 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.4% hist -2.94–+6.41% · other way -3.61% (n=8) |
| 6 | US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.24–-0.12% · other way +0.29% (n=12) |
| 7 | EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.4% hist +-0.0–+0.5% · other way -0.4% (n=10) |
| 8 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.3% model prior · unmeasured |
| 9 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +3bp hist -1.57–+7.89% · other way +2.1% (n=12) |
| 10 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.95–+2.71% · other way -4.53% (n=8) |
| 11 | GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.08–+0.2% · other way -0.51% (n=10) |
| 12 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +2bp hist -1.5–+9.41% · other way -1.8% (n=12) |
| 13 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.05–+0.25% · other way -0.29% (n=10) |
| 14 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.2% hist -0.04–+0.15% · other way +0.39% (n=10) |
Probable recommendation
Why we may diverge from history
Trust the cascade's SOL long: history's -4.3% rests on unrelated crude and India-RBI windows where SOL just tracked the BTC tape — swamped channel, no India-pole signal in the sample.
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +7bp · 5d +1bp | 67% | 39 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.1% | 66% | 38 | 0.23 | · |
| EURUSD EURUSD | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades | 61% | 38 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -1.4% · 5d -6.2% | 61% | 38 | 0.16 | · |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades | 61% | 38 | 0.14 | ⚠ differs |
| USDJPY USDJPY | LONG | +0.5% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades | 58% | 38 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +6.3% · 5d -1.8% ↺ fades | 57% | 37 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +6bp · 5d +2bp | 58% | 38 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| GBPUSD GBPUSD | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.0% | 58% | 38 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| KRW KRW | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 58% | 38 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| US dollar DXY | SHORT | -0.0% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 56% | 39 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | LONG | +2.4% · 5d -3.9% ↺ fades | 56% | 32 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.8% | 55% | 38 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 53% | 38 | 0.04 | ⚠ differs |
Why this probability
India already hedging between blocs; consolidating as a third pole over a decade is well underway. A base‑rate‑anchored prior, continuously scored against what actually happens — not a forecast.