Ansem effect on GambleFi, Tanzanite update analytics, BET Prediction Market from DRIFT launches

✍️ In this week’s newsletter:

• GambleFi Latest News (lots!)

• Tanzanite Enhances Casino Analytics with New Features

• Ansem's Post on RLB and GambleFi Garners 500K Views

Back at the wheel after a few weeks out of action.

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🔥 GambleFi Latest News

 🎰 Casino

• Ansem posts about RLB and GambleFi CT responds

• Tanzanite added multi-chain support to their analytics

• Bet Hog add NFL markets and two new games to their Alpha release

• Cloudbet undergoes rebrand

• Just Bet is now live on WINR chain

• Buy $SHFL directly with a credit card on Shuffle website

• Metawin have purchased @casino handle on Twitter

• ALLiN Bets now live on Dymension

• Shuffle hit 2 billion wagered in August

• Wicked Bet sees all-time highs for revenue ad users

• August revenue and burns for Rollbit

• FUNToken launching lottery on 9th Sep

• Final testing for Moon Roll’s sports book

• Goated partner with Jambo to bring Web3 iGaming to South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia

• Latest SHFL buyback & burn

• melquiades reviews Solcasino

• CasinoCoin moves closer to going multichain

• Bag.win updates app and integrated support

• Basebet improves cashback and rakeback

• Razer, Rollbit co-founder, addresses community concerns

• Further thoughts from Noah on their new SHFL Lottery

• Goated increase Weekly Race prize pool to $10,000

🏃‍♂️ Sports

• All-time high in monthly bettors on SX Bet

• LEVR.bet founder dives into why they bringing its product on-chain

• Turning fan engagement into exclusive perks on Solana with Blockasset

• SX Bet give Pudgy Penguins community in $335,275 in SX Bet credits

📈 Predictions

• BET on Drift launches

• Bloomberg Terminal integrates Polymarket

• 🔉 Will prediction markets survive past the US election? Podcast from Lightspeed featuring Nigel Eccles (Bet Hog) and Kyle (HedgeHog)

• (COINDESK) Can Prediction Market Boom Continue After Election? Kyle from Hedgehog

• Polymarket volume over $470M in August

• There are no prediction markets (from Splash Markets)

• 📺️ The Evolution of Online Speculation with the Founder of FanDuel, Nigel Eccles (From Good Game Pod)

• New yield-bearing prediction market on Blast

• Breakpoint Debate Markets from Drift

💎 Tanzanite Enhances Casino Analytics with New Features

Tanzanite’s Analytics suite continues to improve.

The August updates now include multi-chain support for ETH, SOL, BSC, and TRON. They’ve also added more platforms, including Moon Roll, Betfury, and Yolo Group (BitCasino / SportsBet.io).

Users can now easily compare market share, deposit volume, and new depositors across 14 different platforms, with data available by week, month, or year, and spanning four different blockchains.

They are doing a fantastic job in delivering crucial data and transparency to the sector.

🐦️ Ansem's Post on RLB and GambleFi Garners 500K Views

Many in the sector often criticize crypto and CT for the lack of attention (and money) directed towards GambleFi, despite its real use case in payments and revenues.

Ansem once again stirs the GambleFi conversation, with confusion between RLB’s market cap and its revenues.

Interestingly, the 'Ansem effect' led to a 10% increase in the token’s price within an hour of his post, now sitting 25% higher. It's hard to determine how much of this rise is due to the 500K views it generated, though you’d think a lot!

Let’s pull out a few comments from almost 300 replies.

The number of $RLB token holders voicing their views continues to impress, and naturally, there’s plenty of competition among GambleFi brands, with supporters touting their own merits.

Razer, a Rollbit cofounder, countered comments about revenue and emphasised the trust built from their partnership with Southampton FC.

Tanzanite also got a shoutout for its great contribution to the sector—this was the perfect opportunity to reference their collated data

There’s understandable confusion around casino numbers (as not all are disclosed), but styx (from Rollbit) provided some clarification.

Insights into the 'dark arts,' as it's nearly impossible to determine how much of the figures include promotional or bonus money.

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About The Speculator

The Speculator is a pioneering weekly publication dedicated to providing insights, analysis along with the latest trends and news in the rapidly evolving GambleFi sector.

I cover casino games, sports betting, and prediction markets, with a focus on how decentralised technologies are reshaping these industries.