iGaming Weekly | Jul. 8, 2024

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

iGaming Weekly | Jul. 8, 2024

Industry Overview

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Industry overview on the Ethereum Network.

Casino News

  • Roobet have launched their new slot potato feature, giving users 3x rewards every time they utilize the slot that’s currently chosen.
  • Shuffle have extended their “Boosted Level Up” promotion for another month, giving users a boosted rank-up bonus.
  • Clash have dropped a new “Predictions” game mode, in which users can bet on random CS2 events ( e.g. will there be a record player count this year, will keychains release?).

Traditional Gaming

  • Caesars has acquired ZeroFlucs, a sports betting company that allows operators to augment their price offerings while drawing on their own existing data.
  • The British Betting and Gaming Council has expressed support for the newly elected Labour party, looking to foster collaboration with the new elected officials.
  • Alvin Chau, former Suncity Group head, has had his appeal to his 18 year prison sentence in Macau denied. Chau exhausted all his options, even opting to write Chinese President Xi Jinping an open letter.

Decentralised Casinos

  • YOLO has launched on mobile, allowing players to play on their mobile devices. They also disclosed that over 10 million games have been played in the past 4 months.
  • The WINR community has voted on an assortment of issues regarding token inflation, and have proposed to stop minting vWINR with the launch of the WINR chain.
  • Solcasino have added various meme coins to their platform, including $POPCAT, $MEW, and $MOTHER

Aggregators & Providers

  • Pragmatic have partnered with OneCasino in The Netherlands to supply their Live Casino games.
  • Hacksaw and Spelet lv have partnered to offer Hacksaw’s gaming portfolio in Latvia.
  • Softswiss have obtained new Letters of Certification from the South African government, with the aggregator looking to expand into the country.

New Releases

  • Pragmatic: Sweet Kingdom, Crank It Up, Samurai Code
  • Hacksaw: Tai the Toad
  • Evolution: Balloon Race
  • BGaming: Aviamasters

Upcoming Releases

  • Pragmatic: 6 Jokers, Joker’s Jewels Wild
  • Hacksaw: SixSixSix
  • NoLimit: Punk Rocker 2, Apocalypse Super xNudge, Outsourced
  • Push: The Grand Show, Razor Ways
  • BGaming: Grand Patron, Gold Magnate, Wild West TRUEWAYS

Miscellaneous

  • CoinMarketCap has introduced a new Yield Aggregator to their platform, allowing users to calculate yield, shop among different top yield providers, and spot trends in provided historical data.
  • German lawmaker Joana Cotar has urged her government to halt the dumping of their Bitcoin, asking them to possibly adopt it as a strategic reserve.
  • It has been revealed that the official Ethereum updates email account was compromised and used in a phishing scam on June 23rd. Over 35,000 fraudulent emails were sent out.

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