Gambling Revenue Sets 2026 Record With No State Expansion
No state opened a new online sports betting or online casino market in the year’s first six months, even as US commercial gaming set a sixth straight
North Carolina
North Carolina’s Budget Squeezes Sportsbooks and Goes Easy on Prediction Markets
The state’s fresh budget makes operating a sportsbook pricier while giving a competing product a gentle landing, and a few legislators fear the imbalance could siphon off the very dollars the increase was supposed to bring in. In one budget, North Carolina made sportsbooks costlier to operate and, at the very same moment, gave a … Read more
Prediction Markets Now Out-Trade America’s Sportsbooks, and States Are Racing to Tax Them
Kalshi and Polymarket are now clearing something like $24 billion in trades a month, more than the country’s licensed books handle. The matchup is messier than the headline suggests, but the scramble by states to tax it is not. The pecking order of American betting just got turned around. Month over month, the dollars moving … Read more