Citigroup’s quantum arbitrage engine uses superconducting chips to simultaneously simulate 268 parallel futures. When the probability of Russia-Ukraine war escalation exceeds 78%, it goes long on gold; otherwise, it shorts Bitcoin. In the 2024 Taiwan Strait crisis, the engine detected quantum entanglement shifts to predict the duration of military exercises—profits covered an entire year’s revenue in a single week.
Weaponized Quantum Fog
China’s countermeasure, “Quantum Mist”, scrambles vacuum fluctuations to inject false signals into rival quantum models, causing a $1.4B loss for Western hedge funds.
Temporal Crime Becomes Real
In a historic legal first, the SEC filed charges for “cross-timeline market manipulation.” When trades are executed across probability clouds of the future, existing laws become Stone Age relics.