When regulators and dealmakers move this aggressively in the same week, the entire industry feels the tremors.

From landmark ownership shakeups on the Strip and legislative efforts to reclassify prediction markets as gambling, to crypto casinos hitting major volume milestones and providers pushing deeper into newly regulated European and Latin American markets, this week underscored a sector caught between rapid expansion and tightening oversight. Meanwhile, a massive wave of upcoming game releases signals that the content pipeline shows no signs of slowing down.

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

Industry Overview

Crypto Casino

•  Shuffle announced support for ETH deposits and withdrawals via Robinhood Chain, integrating the Robinhood blockchain infrastructure into its payment options.
• TG Casino reported surpassing $4 billion in cumulative wagering volume, with over 53,000 active players and $485 million in deposits during its most recent two-week reporting period.

Traditional Gaming

• Nevada Gaming Commission approved key regulatory steps for separate take-private transactions involving both MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment, advancing two deals that would reshape ownership of the largest casino operators on the Las Vegas Strip.
• US Congress House lawmakers introduced the bipartisan Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, a bill that would prohibit federally registered trading platforms from listing sports and casino-style event contracts nationwide.
• France Regulator ANJ ordered ISPs to block Polymarket over unlicensed gambling concerns, as part of a broader European crackdown on prediction markets.

Aggregators & Providers

• BGaming Expanded its global reach through a partnership with Bragg Gaming Group, making its portfolio available to players in Spain, the Netherlands, and Peru.
• Hacksaw Gaming Went live with PASINO.ch in Switzerland, bringing a selection of its slot titles to the platform and strengthening its presence in the Swiss market.
• Evolution Expanded its Monopoly Live footprint with a Michigan launch from its new Grand Rapids studio.

Miscellaneous

• Kalshi reported adding 3M new users during the World Cup, with its championship-winner contract seeing over $1.2B traded (a single-market record), while Bernstein raised its Robinhood price target expecting prediction market revenue to overtake crypto revenue for the first time in Q2 2026.
• The US CLARITY Act, a comprehensive crypto market-structure bill, faces a make-or-break Senate window before the August recess, with Galaxy Research cutting passage odds to 30% and the updated draft now banning federal officials from issuing or sponsoring digital assets.
• Samsung Wallet Samsung Electronics plans to add stablecoin support to Samsung Wallet, expanding its payments and rewards platform to include digital assets, potentially broadening crypto payment accessibility for mainstream consumers and merchants including iGaming operators.

New Releases

• BGaming: Chicken Fire, Reel of Ra
• Pragmatic Play: Sleeping Dragon Ultra Dark

Upcoming Releases

• BGaming: Fruit Million Respin, Miss Cherry Wild Frames, Book of Hidden Tombs
• Pragmatic Play: Sunnydaze Asylum, Death Dominion, Jade Legends, Super Serge, 777 Wheel Blitz, Harvest Moon Grave Profits, Bubble Up!
• Hacksaw Gaming: Crown of the Undying, Supreme Zeus, Cash Crooks, Max Win Machine, Epic Ze Zeus, Arizona James and the Lost Relics
• Relax Gaming: Get Kraken, AgroCulture
• Nolimit City: Outsourced 2

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