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How an online casino is put together
Between a player pressing spin and a game paying out there are at least five separate companies. This is who they are and what each one is paid for.
Technology and platforms
What a platform provider does, how aggregation works, what gets certified, and where an operator's own technology begins.
Few operators build their own stack. A platform supplies accounts, wallets, bonusing, reporting and the compliance tooling each market requires; an aggregator supplies the games. The decisions about what to build and what to buy determine an operator's margin, its speed of entry into new markets and how much of its own product it controls.
Explainers on this topic
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What a platform provider does
The least visible company in the chain runs the accounts, the wallet, the bonuses and the regulatory reporting. Why almost nobody builds their own.
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How game aggregation works
One integration gives an operator thousands of games from hundreds of studios. The mechanism explains both the variety in a lobby and the thin margins behind it.
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How a game is certified before anyone can play it
Random number generators, test laboratories and jurisdiction-specific builds: what actually happens between a finished game and its first real stake.