iGaming Weekly | Aug. 13, 2024

Dive in to this weeks iGaming recap, with new partnerships, new games, lots of news and more!

iGaming Weekly | Aug. 13, 2024

This week has been busy at Tanzanite, we have updated our website, moved to a new domain (.xyz) and have rebranded the Tanzanite Newsletter to iGaming Weekly, better reflecting the content of the article. Anyway, enough about us, let's dive into this week's iGaming news!

Industry Overview

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This week's industry overview on the Ethereum network.

Casino News

  • Rollbit’s token, $RLB, has officially crossed it's halving point, with the supply now being below 50% of the original supply.
  • Shuffle’s second airdrop for their token $SHFL has been announced for December 14th, 2024.

Traditional Gaming

  • BetRivers has announced that they will not add a surcharge onto customer's winning bets, going against the industry norm and favouring the player.
  • PENN Entertainment will be rebranding eight of their retail sportsbooks to ESPN Bet.
  • Brazilian lawmakers have pushed back on a bill to legalise casinos, bingo, and betting on horse racing. The vote has been pushed to October.

Decentralised Casinos

  • WINR public testing commenced on Monday, August 12th with the platform aiming to expose the public to new games, rewards, and a revamped UI.
  • BCB has announced a new promotion for the upcoming football (soccer) seasons, offering “If your pre-match win bet goes ahead by 2 or more goals at any point, we’ve decided to pay out regardless of the end result”.

Aggregators & Providers

  • NoLimit has partnered with SuperSport to expand into Croatia.
  • Relax has partnered with theScore BET in Canada to provide their offerings in the app's live casino.
  • BGaming has partnered with casino startup service CasinoWebScripts to include their games in the websites US Sweepstakes platform.

Miscellaneous

  • The Brazilian SEC (CVM) has given a Solana EFT the green light, being the first country to do so.
  • Asset manager Franklin Templeton has launched a blockchain-based money market fund on the Arbitrum chain.

New Releases

  • Pragmatic: Dragon Gold 88, Running Sushi, Yeti Quest
  • Hacksaw: Limbo
  • Evolution: Lightning Ball
  • NoLimit: Outsourced
  • Push: Razor Ways
  • Relax: Space Attacks Dream Drop
  • BGaming: Street Power,

Upcoming Releases

  • Pragmatic: Hot to Burn: 7 Deadly Free Spins
  • Hacksaw: Speed Crash
  • NoLimit: Stockholm Syndrome, Skate or Die
  • Push: Big Bam-book, Cats of Olympus
  • BGaming: Train to Rio Grande, Kraken’s Hunger

Did we miss something?