"Thanks to the rise of cryptocurrency, it's never been easier to place inscrutable bets with shady grey-market bookies. The kingpin presiding over this dubious corner of the gaming industry is currently Polymarket, a crypto platform which lets users place bets on the outcomes of weather catastrophes, political elections, and economic crises. Aided in large part by Trump administration deregulations, Polymarket has become the go-to for bettors eager to cash in on geopolitical strife."
"As Forbes recently reported, the platform has stimulated over $2 billion in trading volume in 2025 from lines on "major events," with questions like "will Russia capture all of Pokrovsk before 2026?" generating over $2.7 million in trades. But with so many global conflicts these days, it can be tough to keep track of all the minute-to-minute action. Will Israel strike Lebanon on December 5? Will India strike Pakistan by March 31st? Who knows!"
Polymarket is a crypto betting platform that enables wagers on weather catastrophes, political elections, and economic crises and has attracted massive trading volume in 2025. Deregulation during the Trump administration helped fuel its growth and pushed bettors toward geopolitical event markets. Trades on questions like territorial captures have generated millions in individual markets and billions across the platform. PolyGlobe visualizes those Polymarket bets on an interactive world map, placing geomarkers at conflict front lines with direct links to corresponding markets. The app also aggregates real-time OSINT from tweets promoted as credible, though source-selection criteria are loose and feeds feature anonymous amateur accounts. The development team previously built Pentagon Pizza Watch.
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