What if Undersea cables to Taiwan severed by 'fishing' vessels?
Multiple subsea telecom/data cables to Taiwan are cut in suspected grey-zone sabotage, degrading connectivity and signaling escalation; TWD and TSM dip, geopolitical risk premia rise.
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 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. 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 risk-off shock. Multiple subsea telecom/data cables to Taiwan are cut in suspected grey-zone sabotage, degrading connectivity and signaling escalation; TWD and TSM dip, geopolitical risk premia rise. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Semiconductor supply risk ▲ — 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 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +6.7% hist +2.3–+3.86% · other way -1.95% (n=12) |
| 2 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -2.5% hist -1.31–-0.63% · other way -0.12% (n=12) |
| 3 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.8% hist -1.16–-0.52% · other way +0.3% (n=12) |
| 4 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.6% hist -0.98–-0.35% · other way +0.99% (n=12) |
| 5 | TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.4% hist -2.89–+0.35% · other way +1.17% (n=12) |
| 6 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -1.4% hist -1.92–+0.04% · other way +1.39% (n=12) |
| 7 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.3% hist -1.2–-0.22% · other way +3.31% (n=12) |
| 8 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.1% hist -1.57–+1.56% · other way +7.5% (n=12) |
| 9 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -1.0% hist -6.45–+1.99% · other way -17.09% (n=11) |
| 10 | ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.0% hist -2.44–+0.54% · other way -1.38% (n=12) |
| 11 | AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.0% hist -1.04–-0.1% · other way -2.76% (n=12) |
| 12 | Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.0% hist -1.13–+1.39% · other way +5.2% (n=12) |
| 13 | Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.0% hist -4.13–+0.9% · other way -2.25% (n=12) |
| 14 | Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.0% hist -0.64–-0.28% · other way -0.68% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -7.3% · 5d -5.7% | 70% | 23 | 0.30 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -5.6% · 5d -6.5% | 70% | 16 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.9% | 66% | 38 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NOC NOC | LONG | +2.0% · 5d +0.3% | 62% | 38 | 0.22 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +1.4% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades | 62% | 34 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MU MU | SHORT | -3.3% · 5d -2.1% | 62% | 38 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| QCOM QCOM | SHORT | -3.0% · 5d -2.3% | 63% | 35 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| RTX RTX | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.5% | 60% | 40 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| NVDA NVDA | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -2.5% | 62% | 34 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -1.2% | 60% | 39 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| TSM TSM | SHORT | -2.0% · 5d -1.9% | 59% | 35 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INTC INTC | SHORT | -1.8% · 5d -1.6% | 57% | 39 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 57% | 33 | 0.11 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AVGO AVGO | LONG | +1.8% · 5d -1.4% ↺ fades | 55% | 31 | 0.10 | ⚠ differs |