Events

Each event below is a scenario, with the baskets that take a view on it. Where there are two sides, each side is its own basket of real tokens, held in your own wallet. Nothing here is a short or a bet against a stock.

Our view, not a forecast or investment advice.

Geopolitics

Oil supply shock

Conflict cuts oil supply through a chokepoint such as the Strait of Hormuz, and crude prices jump.

The shock lasts

Oil rises with the supply cut. Gold tends to hold up when fear is high.

It calms down

Broad stocks recover once the supply fear passes.

Monetary policy

Interest rate cuts

The Federal Reserve cuts rates, or markets start to expect it.

Cuts come

Lower rates lift stock valuations, growth names most.

Rates stay high

Treasury yield keeps paying while you wait.

Technology

AI spending boom

Big tech keeps raising what it spends on AI data centers and chips.

Spending keeps rising

Chip and memory makers sell into every new data center.

Spending slows

Treasury yield, with no exposure to the chip cycle.

Commodities

Power grid and nuclear build-out

Power demand from data centers pushes new grid lines and nuclear plants.

The build-out happens

Grids need copper and reactors need uranium.

Macro

Weaker dollar

The US dollar loses value against other currencies and gold.

The dollar falls

Gold and silver are priced in dollars, so they rise when it falls.

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