🧠 Technology & AI risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Reusable rockets cut launch 10x?

Fully-reusable heavy-lift rockets drop launch cost an order of magnitude, opening cheap orbital access and a fast-growing space economy.

31%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 31% · 90% range 5–56% · 10 analogues · measured class space 69% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — space ≈0.3895/yr → 69% in 3 yr69%
Analyst prior · editorial share 58% of the class40%
Pooled · weight 62%32%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)32%
Published31%

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-on shock. Fully-reusable heavy-lift rockets drop launch cost an order of magnitude, opening cheap orbital access and a fast-growing space economy. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Risk appetite ▲ · Scientific breakthrough ▲ · Space economy ▲ — 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
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.9%
hist +0.32–+0.91% · other way +0.36% (n=12)
2Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -13.77–+7.02% · other way -4.42% (n=11)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -12.08–+19.66% · other way +11.19% (n=12)
4Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.6%
model prior · unmeasured
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist -3.81–+6.97% · other way -5.47% (n=12)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist +-0.0–+0.88% · other way +0.25% (n=12)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -3.96–+9.48% · other way -1.09% (n=12)
8Lockheed LMT 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -1.87–+1.96% · other way -3.05% (n=12)
9Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.3%
hist -1.37–+1.01% · other way +9.33% (n=12)
10Northrop NOC 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.56–+0.89% · other way -1.6% (n=12)
11RTX RTXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -4.05–+1.9% · other way -0.39% (n=12)
12Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.47–+1.03% · other way +0.19% (n=12)
13S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist +0.07–+0.25% · other way -2.38% (n=12)
14Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -10.57–+11.58% · other way +6.65% (n=11)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +0.6% · Lockheed +0.4% · Northrop +0.4% · High-yield credit +0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 10 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.

SpaceX lands an orbital rocket booster 2015-12 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 JWST releases first deep-field images 2022-07 Wegovy 2021-06 First mRNA COVID-19 vaccine authorized 2020-12 AlphaFold cracks the protein-folding problem 2020-11 AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 2016-03
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
RTX RTXSHORT-4.0% · 5d -3.0%81%10 0.57⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+8.9% · 5d -3.3% ↺ fades81%10 0.51✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-13.9% · 5d -5.7%88%8 0.47⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+6.7% · 5d -1.5% ↺ fades75%8 0.41✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+19.8% · 5d +0.9%67%10 0.31✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.8%67%10 0.31✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.4%71%10 0.29·
Gold XAULONG+0.5% · 5d +0.0%62%10 0.17·
NDX NDXLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades62%10 0.15✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTSHORT-2.4% · 5d -2.9%57%10 0.10⚠ differs
NOC NOCSHORT-0.8% · 5d -1.6%57%10 0.10⚠ differs
NVDA NVDALONG+1.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades57%10 0.09✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades52%10 0.03✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades43%10 0.00✓ 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.