iGaming Weekly | Jul. 15, 2024

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

iGaming Weekly | Jul. 15, 2024

Industry Overview

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Industry Overview on the Ethereum Network.

Casino News

  • Shuffle has released their Shuffle Masters lineup for the Counter Strike tournament including 9INE and TSM.
  • Roobet have revamped their rewards to have 30 increasingly rewarding levels that you can achieve, where you double the rewards from your previous level.
  • Clash has released a feature where you can loan against your own levels interest-free.

Traditional Gaming

  • Bally’s have received funding from a Pennsylvania based gaming real estate fund to launch their $1.7 billion dollar casino in Chicago.
  • DraftKings has been fined $100,000 by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement for submitting inaccurate sports betting data over the past few months.
  • Macau has seen an increase of 75% year over year for gambling related crimes in 2024. Fraud, money exchange gangs, and loan sharking are all attributed to the rise.

Decentralised Casinos

  • YOLO has released half of the 35% of fees collected from Season 1 back to S1 players in the form of rakeback. The second half will be distributed later in a future period.
  • WINR has announced the projects that will “enhance their ecosystem”, including CamelotDEX, PlusBet, SXBet, and PumpBest.

Aggregators & Providers

  • Hacksaw and BGame have partnered to expand into Italy together. The almost full Hacksaw library will now be ready to play for any residents in the Mediterranean country.
  • BGaming has gone live in Bulgaria through a partnership with Inbet.
  • SoftSwiss released their H1 report for 2024, detailing that their Anti-Fraud team helped save operators ~6 million Euros.

New Releases

  • Pragmatic: 6 Jokers
  • Hacksaw: Pirate Bonanza
  • NoLimit: Punk Rocker 2
  • BGaming: Grand Patron

Upcoming Releases

  • Pragmatic: Joker’s Jewels Wild, Dynamite Diggin Doug
  • Hacksaw: DICE, SixSixSix
  • NoLimit: Apocalypse Super xNudge, Outsourced, Stockholm Syndrome
  • Push: Cats of Olympuss, Razor Ways, Big Bam-book
  • BGaming: Gold Magnate, Secret Bar Multidice X, Wild West TrueWays

Miscellaneous

  • More than $35 million of the $305 million associated with the DMM hack have been transferred to the online marketplace Huione Guarantee. (Source)
  • The United States SEC has decided to drop their investigation into Paxos, a prominent stablecoin issuer.
  • Donald Trump has been announced as the keynote speaker at Bitcoin 2024 Conference.
  • David Power, founder of sportsbook PaddyPower, has sadly passed away.

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