Weekly digest

Last week Alberta’s Blask Index rose 47.5% as the 13 October grey-market cutoff closed. This week it fell 30.1%. On 23 October the Alberta iGaming Corporation published its first report, covering 13 July to 30 September.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup’s first week led to a huge surge in betting interest across different countries. Some of them are not surprising, for example LATAM jurisdictions (3 gainers out of the top 5) and the US states, but there is one unusual player in this ranking, Japan.