₿ Crypto & Digital Assets risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Stablecoins drain EM bank deposits in high-inflation economies?

Households in inflation-prone economies shift savings into dollar stablecoins, eroding local-bank deposits and pressuring EM currencies and credit.

21%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 21% · 90% range 7–35% · 36 analogues · measured class crypto_rally 72% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — crypto_rally ≈0.4252/yr → 72% in 3 yr72%
Analyst prior · editorial share 28% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 86%22%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)22%
Published21%

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. Households in inflation-prone economies shift savings into dollar stablecoins, eroding local-bank deposits and pressuring EM currencies and credit. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Crypto confidence ▲ · Crypto liquidity ▲ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +1.9%
hist +0.26–+1.23% · other way -4.5% (n=12)
2Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -1.1%
hist -1.49–-0.03% · other way -1.45% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +1.0%
hist -0.95–+0.65% · other way -3.21% (n=12)
4Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.9%
hist -1.13–-0.06% · other way -0.63% (n=12)
5Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.8%
hist -0.53–-0.01% · other way +0.03% (n=12)
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -7.61–+1.43% · other way +5.87% (n=12)
7US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.6%
hist -0.53–+0.44% · other way +0.28% (n=12)
8Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.17–+0.18% · other way -0.17% (n=12)
9EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.28–+0.63% · other way +0.07% (n=12)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -4bp
hist -3.48–+1.82% · other way -5.9% (n=12)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -6.26–+1.12% · other way -7.56% (n=12)
12GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -0.37–+0.61% · other way +0.24% (n=12)
1310y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -4bp
hist -2.61–-0.53% · other way -6.4% (n=12)
14Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -3.01–+4.66% · other way +5.85% (n=12)

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): Turkish lira -0.9% · Indian rupee -0.8% · Chinese yuan -0.5% · 30y Treasury yield -4bp · 10y Treasury yield -4bp · Aussie dollar -0.3%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 36 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.

First US spot Solana ETFs begin trading 2025-10 Bitcoin reaches record near $126,000 2025-10 SEC clears first US Ethereum staking ETF 2025-09 Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 Coinbase set to join the S&P 500 2025-05 Robinhood Q4 2024 earnings beat on 400%+ crypto volume surge 2025-02 Bitcoin hits all-time high near $109k on Trump inauguration day 2025-01 Trump 2024 election win 2024-11 US spot Ethereum ETFs begin trading 2024-07 Trump assassination attempt 2024-07 Bitcoin fourth halving coincides with Runes launch 2024-04 Grayscale wins court ruling against SEC 2023-08 BlackRock files for a spot Bitcoin ETF 2023-06 Russia central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender 2021-09 Coinbase direct listing on Nasdaq 2021-04 Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin 2021-02 MicroStrategy adopts Bitcoin treasury 2020-08 Bitcoin third halving 2020-05 South Korea crypto crackdown 2017-12 SEC rejects Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF 2017-03 Bitcoin second halving 2016-07 Cyprus deposit levy 2013-03 Bitcoin first halving 2012-11 Euro trading debut 1999-01 Louvre Accord 1987-02 Saudi Arabia fixes the riyal to the US dollar at 3.75 1986-06 Plaza Accord dollar devaluation 1985-09 US dollar index peaks at its all-time high 1985-02 Volcker Shock 1979-10 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Bretton Woods collapse / currencies float 1973-03 Smithsonian Agreement 1971-12 Nixon Shock 1971-08 London Gold Pool collapses 1968-03 FDR gold confiscation & revaluation 1933-04
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-6.5% · 5d -1.1%72%25 0.39⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-5.3% · 5d -2.9%73%22 0.37⚠ differs
CNY CNYLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.0%71%24 0.35⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.1%71%24 0.35⚠ differs
AUD AUDLONG+0.9% · 5d +0.3%71%24 0.33⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+10.3% · 5d +0.7%68%25 0.32·
SOL SOLSHORT-1.2% · 5d -3.9%68%19 0.30⚠ differs
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.2%62%34 0.21⚠ differs
GBPUSD GBPUSDLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.3%62%24 0.21⚠ differs
SPX SPXLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.0%62%34 0.19✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.4%55%20 0.08⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+4bp · 5d +3bp55%31 0.08⚠ differs
INR INRLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.4%54%24 0.06⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.8% · 5d -1.1%50%24 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.