Real-time conflict intelligence → market signals → automated trading
STRATA turns live conflict news (from Telegram/News channels) into structured events, maps them to Polymarket prediction markets, and can execute trades automatically using the Polymarket API. Everything appears in a single live terminal dashboard: incidents, a world map, AI trade signals, and execution history.
When something happens—a strike near a port, an escalation, a diplomatic move—markets can take minutes or hours to react. STRATA shortens that gap:
- Ingests messages from conflict-focused Telegram channels (with translation and filtering).
- Analyzes them with AI to extract events: what happened, where, who’s involved, confidence.
- Maps those events to active Polymarket questions and ranks trade ideas by urgency.
- Shows everything in a live terminal UI: feed, map, signals, and (optionally) places orders via the Polymarket API.
By the time a headline hits the news, the position can already be in the market.
When you run the dashboard (node strata.js), you get:
Watch a demo:
| Area | What’s there |
|---|---|
| Left — Incident feed | AI-summarized events (headline, type, location, confidence) and live Telegram messages. Expand/collapse with [+] / [-]; scroll to see more. |
| Center — Map | ASCII world map with red dots at event locations. Click a dot to open a popup with headline, summary, and link. Pan with arrow keys. |
| Right — Intel stats | Counts of events, countries, and trade signals. Portfolio P&L when connected. |
| Bottom — AI signals | Polymarket trade ideas (market, side, urgency) from the latest analyzed events. Scroll to see more. |
| Status bar | Connection status, controls reminder, and (in replay mode) simulated time and speed. |
Replay mode: If you run the pipeline with a start date (e.g. resume.py --since 2026-02-27), the dashboard can replay events over time at an accelerated speed so you can watch the feed and map update as if in real time.
| Action | Key / gesture |
|---|---|
| Exit | x |
| Zoom map in / out | z / Z |
| Resize left panel (AI vs Telegram) | [ / ] |
Replay speed (when using --since) |
+ / - |
| Scroll incident feed (top left) | Mouse wheel or scroll in that panel |
| Scroll Telegram section | Mouse wheel in Telegram area |
| Scroll AI signals (bottom) | Mouse wheel in bottom panel |
| Expand / collapse event or Telegram message | Click the [+] / [-] row |
| Event detail on map | Click a red dot |
| Dismiss popup | Click anywhere |
| Media (if available for an event) | m when a popup is open |
- Node.js 18+
- Python 3.10+
- Telegram API credentials (my.telegram.org → API development tools)
- Anthropic API key (console.anthropic.com)
- Polymarket wallet private key only if you want real trading (otherwise everything runs in dry-run).
# From the project root
npm install
cd telegram_scraper
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .envEdit .env and set at least:
TELEGRAM_API_ID,TELEGRAM_API_HASH,TELEGRAM_PHONEANTHROPIC_API_KEY
For live trading, add POLY_PRIVATE_KEY (and optionally POLY_ORDER_SIZE, POLY_MIN_URGENCY).
The first time you run the scraper, Telegram will send a login code to your phone; enter it when prompted.
node strata.jsThe TUI starts and listens on port 3001. With no pipeline running, you’ll see the layout and “All systems running”; once the Python pipeline is running (scraper + analyzer, and optionally trade executor), events, map dots, and AI signals will stream in.
From another terminal:
cd telegram_scraper
# One-shot: process from a start date (good for replay)
python resume.py --since 2026-02-27
# Live: scrape + analyze + optional trading (dry-run by default)
python main.py --backfill 200The dashboard will show events and signals as they’re produced. Use --live with main.py or resume.py only when you want real Polymarket orders.
- STRATA = Telegram conflict intel → AI events → Polymarket signals (and optional execution), all in one terminal UI.
- Run
node strata.jsto open the dashboard; run the Python pipeline in another terminal to feed it. - Use the left panel for the feed, the map for geography, the bottom for trade ideas, and the status bar for controls and replay speed.
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