What if On-chain GDP: stablecoin settlement rivals card-network volume?
Annual stablecoin settlement value scales to rival major card networks, embedding crypto rails in mainstream commerce and deepening dollar dominance digitally.
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 (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), 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. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. Annual stablecoin settlement value scales to rival major card networks, embedding crypto rails in mainstream commerce and deepening dollar dominance digitally. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Crypto confidence ▲ · Crypto liquidity ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.