⚔ Geopolitics risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if US-Greenland minerals-security deal locks in supply?

Washington and Copenhagen sign a Greenland critical-minerals and basing pact, securing rare-earth and uranium supply outside China and easing Western supply-chain risk.

20%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 20% · 90% range 10–30% · 40 analogues · measured class growth 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — growth ≈1.8868/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 20% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 87%21%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)21%
Published20%

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. Washington and Copenhagen sign a Greenland critical-minerals and basing pact, securing rare-earth and uranium supply outside China and easing Western supply-chain risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Geopolitical risk ▼ · Industrial demand ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -4.0%
hist -3.44–-0.91% · other way +7.45% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +1.7%
hist +0.37–+1.0% · other way +0.61% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.2%
hist +0.31–+0.68% · other way +0.61% (n=12)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.9%
hist +0.08–+1.0% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
5MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.9%
hist -4.74–+12.91% · other way -1.92% (n=12)
6Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -0.72–+0.68% · other way +2.39% (n=9)
7Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.36–+1.92% · other way -0.76% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.7%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist +0.13–+0.54% · other way +0.39% (n=9)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.5%
hist -0.45–+1.56% · other way +2.4% (n=11)
11Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.49–-0.06% · other way +0.22% (n=12)
12Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -0.9–+3.14% · other way +2.47% (n=12)
13High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▲ +0.5%
hist -0.3–+0.21% · other way -0.52% (n=12)
14AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -1.44–+0.86% · other way -2.02% (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): Tech sector +1.2% · High-yield credit +0.5% · Freeport (copper) +0.3% · Financials +0.3% · Lockheed -0.3% · JPMorgan +0.2%

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.

Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 Fatal mud-rush halts Freeport's Grasberg, tightening copper supply 2025-09 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 Anglo American demerges Valterra Platinum 2025-06 Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 DRC suspends cobalt exports 2025-02 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 BHP abandons $49bn takeover bid for Anglo American 2024-05 Comex copper hits record on New York short squeeze 2024-05 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Panama Supreme Court voids Cobre Panama copper concession 2023-11 Newmont completes $15bn Newcrest takeover to lead global gold 2023-11 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 RTX takes $3B charge on Pratt & Whitney GTF engine flaw 2023-09 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 LME nickel short squeeze and trading halt 2022-03 Russia central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 Nasdaq Composite first close above 15000 2021-08 Wegovy 2021-06
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
LMT LMTSHORT-3.0% · 5d -1.7%78%40 0.45✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.1%71%38 0.30⚠ differs
NOC NOCSHORT-1.9% · 5d -0.4%67%39 0.30✓ matches cascade
RTX RTXSHORT-1.5% · 5d -1.4%64%40 0.28✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades65%39 0.24✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.5% · 5d +0.0%62%40 0.22✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -2.0%63%38 0.20⚠ differs
ASML ASMLSHORT-1.6% · 5d -2.8%61%38 0.17⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-1.1% · 5d -6.1%59%37 0.14⚠ differs
TSM TSMLONG+1.6% · 5d -1.4% ↺ fades59%38 0.14✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+12bp · 5d +5bp58%40 0.14·
NVDA NVDALONG+2.7% · 5d -2.7% ↺ fades59%38 0.13✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLLONG+1.1% · 5d -1.4% ↺ fades59%38 0.13✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+11.8% · 5d -2.4% ↺ fades56%38 0.12✓ 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.