What if record bitcoin ETF inflows trigger a supply shock?
Record spot-BTC-ETF inflows create a structural supply absorption: BTC bid first on the liquidity, with SOL/ETH carrying the higher-beta follow-through and MSTR/COIN tagging along. The direct rhyme is the late-2024/early-2025 inflow surges that pushed BTC to successive records. Forward angle: ETF flows are pro-cyclical and reflexive — they amplify trend but reverse violently, so treat the supply shock as momentum fuel, not a floor.
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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 0–6 months 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 mixed shock. Record spot-bitcoin-ETF inflows create a structural supply shock. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Crypto liquidity ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.