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Live betting has crossed 52% of all US online sports wagers, with microbettors spending nearly twice as much monthly as pre-match customers. A federal lawsuit and new health research are now challenging the sector's rapid growth.
Kalshi has agreed to roll out GeoComply's geofencing across Nevada by August 12, 2026, ending a contempt fight after regulators caught its own location-blocking tool failing repeatedly.
FIFA's integrity task force monitored all 104 World Cup 2026 matches and reported zero cases of betting related match fixing, but Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset says the tournament exposed serious integrity gaps around prediction markets and political interference.
BETBY grew sportsbook GGR 42.7 percent and active players 47 percent in H1 2026, building on a record Q1 and a FIFA World Cup betting surge.
SBC Summit Tbilisi 2026 brought more than 2,500 delegates and 70 speakers together for its fourth edition, with regulatory dialogue, AI in gaming and market entry strategy dominating the agenda.
Sportsbook technology supplier Kambi posted a 13.5% revenue rise and more than doubled adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2026, crediting the FIFA World Cup and its first fully AI traded tournament for the turnaround.
Spain has not licensed prediction betting, but legal experts say existing sports betting rules could already cover it, even as the DGOJ works to block Polymarket and Kalshi.
A King County judge has granted Washington a preliminary injunction against Kalshi, ruling the prediction market operator likely ran an illegal gambling operation and rejecting its federal preemption defense.
Kalshi and Polymarket posted record trading volumes during the 2026 World Cup, with US prediction markets hitting 20 billion dollars in notional volume in just 12 days.
FIRST.bet and ADI Predictstreet are launching a joint FIFA World Cup 2026 Prediction Hub to bring regulated prediction markets to FIRST.bet's Latin America operator network.
Chinese police busted a Panzhihua based network that used fake World Cup 2026 livestreams to run a $296 million illegal betting operation, arresting 20 people as part of a wider nationwide crackdown.
Pennsylvania's iGaming and online sports betting revenue overtook slot machines and table games for the first time in fiscal year 2025 to 2026, PGCB data shows.