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iGaming Weekly | Mar. 9, 2026

iGaming Weekly | Mar. 9, 2026

Smokey Lisa
March 09, 2026

Innovation, integration, and infrastructure shifts are redefining the pace of iGaming.

Crypto platforms continue expanding through token incentives, new payment rails, and developer initiatives, while security risks remain a reminder of the sector’s rapid growth. At the same time, operators are moving toward more integrated product ecosystems as regulators and financial markets edge closer to the industry through evolving frameworks and prediction-style products.

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

Industry Overview

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Crypto Casino

Shuffle Airdrop 3 dropped this past week, with 5.5M $SHFL is up for grabs this week.
The Rollbit Store has launched, with players now able to purchase carefully crafted pieces of merchandise.
A hacker illegally exploited a vulnerability in a third-party game and illegally profited $4,326,700 from BCGAME.
Monkeytilt announced a developer hackathon in Las Vegas (March 20-22) with a $20,000 prize pool to build multiplayer games on its platform.
Thrill has added direct crypto deposits, with 24 wallets and exchanges being available on site now.

Traditional Gaming

DraftKings unveiled what they called a “Super App,” which will bring online sports betting, prediction markets, casino, and lottery gaming to one location on the mobile devices of its customers nationwide.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a civil enforcement action against prediction market platform Kalshi on Tuesday in Ingham County Circuit Court.
Companies competing for three downstate New York casino licenses reported some of the city’s largest lobbying expenditures in 2025, showing the political intensity surrounding the licensing process

Aggregators & Providers

Hacksaw has gone live with 7Melons.ch in Switzerland, marking its third live operator in the locally licensed Swiss market.

Miscellaneous

The CFTC expects to approve crypto perpetual futures trading in the US within the next month, a move that could reshape derivatives offerings relevant to prediction markets and iGaming platforms.
Magic Eden announced it will shut down its Ethereum and Bitcoin NFT marketplaces to go all-in on its online casino platform Dicey, signaling a major pivot from NFTs to iGaming by a prominent crypto company.
Nasdaq filed with the SEC to list binary yes-or-no options on the Nasdaq-100 index, mirroring the prediction market format used by Polymarket and Kalshi, as combined daily volumes on those platforms topped $500 million.
The Florida Senate passed the first state-level stablecoin regulatory framework in the US, now headed to the governor for signature, potentially setting a precedent for payment infrastructure used by iGaming operators.