Transparency rises, regulation tightens, and capital quietly reshapes the playing field.

Crypto operators are doubling down on verifiability while parts of the ecosystem contract, highlighting a growing divide between trust-led growth and sustainability pressures. At the same time, regulatory momentum is building globally, as aggregation expands and underlying financial infrastructure continues to evolve.

Let’s dive into this week’s iGaming Weekly!

Industry Overview

Crypto Casino

• Stake’s Provably Fair Technology is now live across all 1,200+ Stake Engine games, providing fully open sourced and publicly verifiable outcomes.
• Luck has announced they will begin sunsetting operations, urging players to transfer all of their funds out of their Smart Vaults.

Traditional Gaming

• New Zealand’s Online Casino Gambling Bill has passed its third reading in parliament, moving one step closer to becoming law.
• Evoke has confirmed it is in discussions with Bally's Intralot over a potential all-share combination, priced at £0.50 per share.
• New York Attorney General Letitia James has launched a legal challenge against Coinbase and Gemini, accusing the crypto giants of running illegal gambling operations through their prediction markets.

Aggregators & Providers

• Hacksaw has added Good Times Studios to their evergrowing OpenRGS roster, the tenth studio to be partnered.

Miscellaneous

• India is testing its digital rupee through about 10 welfare pilot programs covering farmers and food subsidies as it looks to give its CBDC a real use case.
• Circle's chief economist has proposed increasing Aave's USDC borrowing rate cap from 14% to 50% to restore liquidity following the Kelp DAO exploit.
• Kalshi has tapped Pyth Network to power settlement data for its new Commodities Hub, covering gold, silver, oil, gas, and key crop markets around the clock.

New Releases

• Pragmatic: Sweet Bonanza 2500, Great Ghosts!
• Hacksaw: Power of Ten, Marlin Masters Atlantis
• Nolimit: San Quentin Manhunt
• Relax: Purrrminator Dream Drop
• BGaming: Bling Blitz Diamond Drop, Grand Buffalo Hold and Win
• Gamdom: Twist
• Shuffle: Blitz
• Thrill: Coinflip

Upcoming Releases

• Hacksaw: Le Digger, Dynasty of Death, Sand and Ashes
• Pragmatic: Dragon Pots Megaways
• Nolimit: Tombstone: Begins, True Grit Redemption 2
• Push: Diamonds 4 The Win, Vegas Vault
• BGaming: Ultras, Hot Rocket 5x 3x 2x

Upcoming Events

• April 28th - April 30th, SBC Malta, Malta

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