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We recently broke down Conor McGregor’s highly calculated “liquidation tour”—analyzing how the former two-division champion has been aggressively stacking commercial partnerships with brands like 1xBet and Polymarket right alongside his own platform, RealBet. But regardless of your take on his outside-the-cage business maneuvers, the waiting is finally over for his actual athletic reality.

North America 4 Unregulated (Fragmented) Crypto gambling in the US operates in a highly fragmented environment where federal statutes like the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) target operators and payment processors rather than individual players.

Prediction markets have just enjoyed their biggest month on record, with a new report from Macquarie Equity Research estimating that more than $50 billion in trading volume passed through the sector during June alone. Much of that activity was fuelled by the FIFA World Cup, highlighting just how quickly prediction markets are becoming part of the mainstream betting market.

Shuffle has expanded its growing collection of Originals with the launch of Coinflip, a new provably fair game that combines simple gameplay with the potential for enormous payouts. To celebrate the release, the crypto casino is running a $20,000 promotional campaign, giving players the chance to share the prize pool by hitting a 250x multiplier before the promotion ends on 16 July 2026. Sometimes, the simplest casino games become the biggest success stories.

BC.GAME has continued its push into Latin America by announcing the signing of Mexican football icon Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa as the newest ambassador for BCGAME.mx. Although Mexico’s World Cup journey may already be over, football remains firmly at the centre of the country’s sporting culture.

Sometimes, the simplest ideas become the most successful. When Stake co-founder Eddie Craven shared a post on X revealing that more than $70 billion has been wagered on Stake’s Plinko since its launch in 2017, it stopped us in our tracks. Even more astonishing was the second figure: over 42.5 billion individual bets have been placed on the game during that time.

Just last month, we covered how veteran software developer Belatra Games leveraged its thirty-year engineering pedigree to enter the cutting-edge Web3 space through a major content integration deal with Wild.io. That partnership demonstrated how their distinct, highly volatile slots can supercharge a high-production crypto lobby for players wagering with everything from Bitcoin to Solana.

Every now and then, a software studio comes along and completely rewrites the rules of player engagement. For years, the major development houses chased a predictable formula: hyper-complex megaways paylines, generic mythological tropes, or glossy, over-rendered 3D graphics designed to mimic mobile video games. But if you look at any premier crypto betting site today, the lobby tells a vastly different story. One name dictates the current stylistic and mathematical zeitgeist: Hacksaw Gaming.

I will be the first to admit that five years is far too long to spend without the most electric superstar combat sports has ever seen. Like millions of others, I am eagerly awaiting Saturday night. When the lights drop at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for UFC 329 on 11 July, and Conor McGregor finally walks out for his highly anticipated rematch against Max Holloway, the atmosphere will be completely unmatched. We have missed this.

As I watched Brazil’s dramatic last-16 clash with Norway, I couldn’t believe the penalty awarded to Brazil deep into stoppage time. With only seconds remaining, it looked destined to be nothing more than a consolation goal. My first thought wasn’t about Brazil’s comeback—it was about the thousands of bettors who had backed Both Teams To Score – No, Under 2.5 Goals, or the 0-2 correct score. For those players, one refereeing decision may have completely changed the outcome of their bets.