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As Predicted, Prediction Markets Dominate G2E Discussions
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October 13, 2025
As Predicted, Prediction Markets Dominate G2E Discussions
By: Sara Dalsheim
Every year at the biggest gaming conference in the world, G2E, there is one topic on everyone’s lips. In past years, these topics have been legalized online sports wagering, daily fantasy sports, legalized iGaming, expansions of legalized online gaming, social gaming, and sweepstakes casinos. This year it was no different; the topic being – prediction markets. With the growing popularity of exchanges such as Kalshi and Polymarket, along with the recent $2 billion investment in Polymarket, everyone the Ifrah Law team encountered was concerned with and curious about this potential new gaming-related vertical. Some in the industry, including leaders (i.e., the AGA) and regulators, expressed annoyance and frustration by the new entrant – claiming it was illegal and reckless. Others…
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Practice, Study Hall and Sports Betting? NCAA Set to Allow College Athletes to Bet on Professional Sports
October 10, 2025
Practice, Study Hall and Sports Betting? NCAA Set to Allow College Athletes to Bet on Professional Sports
By: Michelle Cohen
First came the name, image, and likeness deals, and now…sports betting. Following a trend of eliminating certain restrictions on collegiate student-athletes, the NCAA’s Division I Administrative Committee just approved a proposal that removes the ban on student-athletes and athletic department staff engaging in sports betting on professional sports. Division II and Division III officials must also adopt the proposal before it can become effective. Assuming…
R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y! Find out what it means in New Jersey
September 22, 2025
R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y! Find out what it means in New Jersey
By: Sara Dalsheim
Last week New Jersey published and proposed new Internet and Mobile Gaming Responsible Gaming regulations (57 New Jersey Register 2230(a)). The proposed regulations create new standards and definitions relating to responsible gaming. The regulations are available for public comment until November 14, 2025. During the iDEA Growth panel discussion on “Proactive Player Protection: Making Responsible Gaming the New Normal” on September 16th New Jersey Department…
NFL Gambling Policy Can Benefit From Small Modification
May 10, 2023
NFL Gambling Policy Can Benefit From Small Modification
By: Steven Eichorn
Recently, the NFL suspended five players for violations of the league’s gambling policy. Three players received indefinite bans (with the right to apply for reinstatement after the 2023 season) because they were caught betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, while two other players received six-game suspensions for betting on non-NFL games at a league facility (i.e., they were betting on college games at…
Sports Betting Operators Find Opportunities and Challenges in New Artificial Intelligence Tools
May 2, 2023
Sports Betting Operators Find Opportunities and Challenges in New Artificial Intelligence Tools
By: Jacob Grubman
For bookmakers, who have honed their tools of prediction since the dawn of sports betting, artificial intelligence seems like a natural fit. With a diverse array of AI and AI-adjacent products reaching the market, sports betting operators are primed to exploit these technological developments to offer new and better products to their users. As these two frontier industries meet, regulatory hurdles and obligations are likely…
Ifrah Law at NFT.NYC: Web3 Gaming’s Growing Pains and Maturity
April 26, 2023
Ifrah Law at NFT.NYC: Web3 Gaming’s Growing Pains and Maturity
By: Jake Gray
From April 12th to April 14th, NFT.NYC held its fourth inaugural event since its launch in 2019, boasting more than 1,500 speakers across seven different categories and a featured section. Moving from an array of venues spread throughout Times Square to a centralized location North Javits, Hudson Yards, the event was significantly less well attended than the previous year. Official attendance numbers have not been…
Ifrah Law on Web3: Web3.0’s Solutions
April 19, 2023
Ifrah Law on Web3: Web3.0’s Solutions
By: Jake Gray
At issue in Web2.0 was the centralization of web platforms and protocols under a user-independent authority, and therefore users’ inability to meaningfully exert control over their web experience, interactions, and data. While such a dynamic provided significant benefits in making the web accessible to a much wider population by lowering the technical barrier to entry, a concomitant effect was that large technology companies retained much…
Ifrah Law on Web3: Origins of the Web
April 17, 2023
Ifrah Law on Web3: Origins of the Web
By: Jake Gray
In parts (1) and (2) of this series, we’ll cover the basics of the Web and aspects of its technical history up to the present, and then discuss how Web3 technologists are trying to revolutionize the Web in its current iteration by solving its characteristic problems, respectively. In the following parts, (3) and (4), we’ll survey a popular Web3 sub-industry—gaming—and learn more about an entity…
