wtf is polymarket-universe?

Polymarket Universe is a research dashboard that turns the full archive of Polymarket prediction markets into a browsable, searchable database. Polymarket is a platform where people bet real money on the outcomes of events like elections, sports, and financial markets. This tool takes the entire history of 546,234 such contracts (spanning October 2020 through March 2026) and presents them as an interactive visual application rather than a flat list. The app has four main views. The globe view places markets on a 3D world map based on the country they relate to, showing 64 countries and cross-border relationships. The graph view compresses the full archive into clusters by category, such as crypto, sports, politics, and weather. The timeline view shows how many markets were created per month across 66 monthly snapshots, so you can see when certain topics surged in activity. The search and detail panel lets you type a query, browse matching markets, view their metadata, and export results to a CSV file. The app runs locally with a standard npm install and npm run dev. No external server or account is needed. The data is pre-exported as JSON files checked into the repository, so everything loads from disk. A built-in search endpoint runs inside the Next.js framework and queries a sharded full-text index of market titles. The project is a read-only visualization layer. The pipeline that originally fetched and processed the data from Polymarket and loaded it into a graph database is not included. Search works on market titles only, not on meaning or context. Full 3D rendering requires a browser with WebGL support, without it, the app falls back to static summary panels. It is built with Next.js, React, and several open-source visualization libraries for 3D graphs and globe rendering.