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!
Luckily, some enterprising developers have come up with a solution to help gamblers keep up with the ever-changing nature of global conflicts. It’s called PolyGlobe, an app designed to visualize Polymarket bets on a real-world map. With PolyGlobe, users can scroll its digital map for geomarkers — along the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia war, for example — that contain direct links to the Polymarket dashboard for that given conflict.
Beyond visualizing bets, the app also aggregates “real-time OSINT [open source intelligence]” data from tweets by the “most credible sources of OSINT reporting on X,” the development team told Futurism. There’s no strict criteria for selecting sources, but a quick look at the feed shows a small number of anonymous, amateur media accounts like “Conflict_Radar” and “Osint613” make up the bulk of them.
PolyGlobe is the work of the team behind the Pentagon Pizza Watch project, which tracks pizza deliveries near the US pentagon as a possible sign of clandestine NatSec activity. In an email, PolyGlobe’s creators stated they’re official partnered with Polymarket through its Builder’s Program.
In a post on X-formerly-Twitter announcing the launch of a live Ukraine war map, the team behind PolyGlobe showed off a robust interface complete with directions of attack and color-coordinated control zones, alongside real-time price charts for relevant bets. The graphs look exactly like a stock chart — tracking the market’s financial appetite for deadly conflict and streamlining the process of betting on it.
“Now, when you hover a market, we draw the exact area of operation it resolves on and spell out the rule in plain English,” PolyGlobe declares. “No more rule debates, no more guessing what actually settles. The only way to monitor the situation.” (That feature now seems to be in limbo following backlash from the developer group DeepState, which created the Ukraine frontline map.)
According to PolyGlobe’s website, the app was designed for “traders, analysts, and journalists who need to see the financial impact of geopolitical events as they unfold, in real-time.” The Pentagon Pizza Watch team doesn’t profit from Polymarket bets directly, they told Futurism. For now, they’re primarily funded through “creator fees” via their proprietary cryptocurrency, but that could change.
“We’re exploring other monetization routes such as data licensing and enabling trading on the site,” the creators said.
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