iGaming Weekly | Aug. 26, 2024

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

iGaming Weekly | Aug. 26, 2024

With a fairly uneventful week for casino news, we at Tanzanite have been busy adding SOL, BSC and TRX to our analytics dashboard, this will be completed by next week's edition. 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.

Crypto Casino

  • Shuffle will be moving forward with a lottery system for their $SHFL token, Noah has confirmed.

Traditional Gaming

  • BetMGM have allowed Nevada bettors to seamlessly access their account from anywhere in the United States to bet.
  • Hollywood Casino in Pennsylvania, USA have removed ~200 slot machines, continuing a broader nationwide trend of the machines being removed.
  • Brazil has seen 113 applications to operate sports betting websites and online gaming websites, seeing 52 applications in their final 24 hours!

Decentralised Casinos

  • JustBet’s Beta Testing has been going well, with over one million transactions taking place, and over six million total games being played!
  • In the past two months, YOLO has bought back over 10% of their total current circulating supply.

Aggregators & Providers

  • Pragmatic has expanded into the Czech Republic after partnering with Sazka. Pragmatic have also added horse racing from 30 different territories to their sportsbook!
  • Relax Gaming have released their new business platform called “Vantage”, allowing operators to browse all Relax games, analytics, and dashboards.
  • Softswiss has released non-monetary prizes which allows operators to incentivize players with cars, trips, mobile devices, and more.

Miscellaneous

  • Ethereum ETFs have seen records outflows, much different than Bitcoin ETFs which have seen continued inflows for the past few weeks.
  • Tether has announced that they will release a stable coin linked to the UAE Dirham
  • Despite the removal of Cboe Global Markets’ filing to list the Solana ETF, VanEck believes that a Solana fund will still stay active.

New Releases

  • Pragmatic: Sumo Supreme Megaways, Aztec Treasure Hunt
  • Hacksaw: Speed Crash
  • NoLimit: Stockholm Syndrome
  • BGaming: Kraken’s Hunger

Upcoming Releases

  • Pragmatic: Forging Wilds, Gem Elevator
  • Hacksaw: Octo Attack
  • Evolution: Spin Gifts
  • Push: Big Bam-book
  • Relax: Bone Raiders
  • BGaming: Train to Rio Grande, RoboSpin, Royal Fruits Multilines, Top Gun

Did we miss something?