iGaming Weekly: Liquid’s 4,000 BTC drain, Engine’s quiet rebrand, Goobr walks

iGaming Industry News

• Stake Engine, the remote gaming server behind more than 3,600 developer-built games on Stake, quietly rebranded as Engine at engine.io; an Easygo engineer said multi-casino support is being prepared.
• Rainbet switched on ETH deposits routed through Robinhood Chain, one of the first crypto casinos on Robinhood's L2. 1win went live with Solana deposits and withdrawals. Gamdom added SkinDeck as a withdrawal method, letting players cash out balances as CS2 skins.
• MetaWin said its systems flagged a few suspicious withdrawal attempts and it shut off automatic withdrawal approvals, suspending the accounts involved; the operator says no funds left the platform.
• Brazil's Senate Science and Technology Committee advanced PL 2,470/2026, a bill banning betting advertising across all media and prohibiting naming rights, brand licensing and ambassador deals.
• Polymarket launched perpetual futures, opening with 10 markets and expanding to 67 within hours, with up to 20x leverage. LeBron James teased a Polymarket partnership in a 14-second video, becoming the first NBA player to sign individually with the platform.
• A Michigan judge signed a preliminary injunction keeping Kalshi's sports-event contracts geofenced out of the state and raised the non-compliance penalty to $500,000 per day.
• New Jersey became the first state to take prediction markets to the Supreme Court, filing a 332-page cert petition asking whether Dodd-Frank preempts state gambling law for CFTC-registered sports-event contracts.
• Nearly 4,000 BTC worth about $319 million was drained from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet in a single peg-out, collapsing the peg from roughly 4,200 BTC to 207 BTC.

Latest Drama

The Gamdom markers scandal: @TheGoobr wins $1.2M, then walks

Goobr hit a $1.2 million keno win on Gamdom and ended the week telling his Discord he was leaving for Stake. In between, clips circulated of Gamdom owner Felix Romer allegedly handing him a $100K marker on a live call and leaving once it went to zero.

• @gamdom: "There's no way @TheGoobr hit $1.2 million on keno man 😭."
• @korraflow: Goobr bet $400,000 on Duel Blackjack and won, roughly $800,000 total payout… "one of the biggest bets we've ever seen on Duel."
• @DegenHighs: "Is this just fake balance disguised as markers?"

@SteveWillDoIt vs @TheGoobr

Two of the biggest names in gambling content spent the week calling each other frauds, triggered by Steve funding 6ix9ine's baseball betting. Steve's Gamdom deal ran underneath it as the backdrop.

• @TheGoobr: "you gave 6ix9ine money to bet on baseball what tf did your clown ass think was gonna happen?? I take out loans to gamble daily and even I'd never do something that retarded"
• @YogiGambles: Steve is "pushing 30 and still behaves like a manchild… getting paid millions by your sugar daddy @Romer to shill a @Gamdom code, then blocking anyone who asks how much the monthly [is]."
• @DegenHighs: "The beef between Steve and Goobr seems a bit forced / fake or is it just me? 🤔"

Latest Releases

Casino Originals

• Degen.com added multi-seat play and new animations to its in-house Blackjack Original.
• CoinPoker launched K-Poker, an in-house No-Limit Hold'em variant with a 10-second shot clock and a 1BB ante.
• YEET raised limits across every YEET Original, with max wins up to 6x higher, capping at $300,000 on most games and $1,000,000 on Keno.

Third Party

• Pragmatic Play released Moon Rush, claimed as an exclusive by both Qzino and MetaWin within 24 hours, and live on Rollbit by September 4.
• Maverick Studios released Necro Punks as a Stake exclusive, the studio's debut on the platform, live in Stake's Only on Stake collection.
• Ludo Land released Steve Don't Do It, a SteveWillDoIt-branded Gamdom-exclusive slot, live on the Gamdom game page at launch.
• Hacksaw released Tres Piñatas Hold & Win, a Day of the Dead-themed Hold & Win title, live on Sportsbet.io by September 4.

Weekly Stats: On-Chain Casino Report

Deposits across the casinos FairGambling tracks on-chain came to $1.07B for Aug 31–Sep 6, up 3.9% week over week.

Top 10 casinos by deposit volume

Stake took $570.0M of it, ahead of Duel ($78.0M), Roobet ($76.0M), Gamdom ($55.5M), Rainbet ($52.5M), Shuffle ($48.5M), BC.Game ($33.8M), 1win ($24.3M), Sportsbet.io ($22.4M) and Stake.us ($21.2M).

Chain dominance

Ethereum carried 34% of deposits ($360.6M), TRON 33% ($356.2M) and Solana 16% ($167.7M), with BNB Chain at 11% ($115.0M), Polygon 5% ($48.1M) and XRP Ledger 1% ($14.3M).

Coin dominance

USDT was 56% of deposits ($603.5M), USDC 19% ($203.8M), SOL 11% ($119.4M), ETH 10% ($104.5M), XRP 1% ($14.3M) and TRX 1% ($13.0M).

Weekly Bet Stats: Tracked by FairGambling

FairGambling tracked 46.22M bets from roughly 344,600 players, $7.20B wagered in total, down 4.4% on the week.

Top 5 casinos by wager

Stake handled $3.57B of it, ahead of Jack ($812.7M), Duel ($541.8M), Gamdom ($534.3M) and Roobet ($447.0M).

Top games and biggest bets

FairGambling tracked $3.6M on table 6 that won $5.8M, three more of $3.5M, $3.5M and $3.3M on the same table that lost, and $2.9M on table 1 that lost. blackjack took $520.8m in wagers, ahead of classic multihand blackjack ($370.6m), dice ($317.5m), sweet bonanza 1000 ($300.0m) and gates of olympus super scatter ($258.2m). the five biggest bets of the week were all privé lounge baccarat hands at stake by a hidden player.

Biggest wins of the week

FairGambling tracked $599K into $29.9M on Sweet Bonanza 1000 at 50.00x (hidden), $6K into $26.1M on Shadows Inc at 4,345.53x (hidden), $800K into $16.4M on Sweet Bonanza 1000 at 20.47x (hidden), $500K into $15.5M on Waylanders Forge at 31.08x (10111821) and $200K into $10.6M on Sweet Bonanza 1000 at 52.82x (hidden). the top multiplier was a 5,649,505x moles hit at stake that turned a near-zero stake into $2k (soranith), followed by four 5,148,297x mines hits at stake paying $3k (hidden), $2k (soranith), $1k (negerijp) and $1k (suifeng1008). the biggest wins by payout were all at stake.

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