Casino operator Las Vegas Sands saw its revenue top $3b in the second quarter of 2017, thanks in part to a luckier than usual VIP performance at its Singapore operations.

Figures released Wednesday show Sands’ revenue rising 18.6% to $3.14b in the three months ending June 30, while operating income rose 57.5% to $816m and net income spiked nearly 62% to $638m.

Sands China’s operations in Macau remain the company’s main breadwinner, posting revenue of $1.82b, up 23% year-on-year, while net income was up 37.6% to $326m. The strong performance comes just as Sands China’s debut property, the Venetian Macao, prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on August 28.

Total mass gaming revenue in Macau was up 22.6% year-on-year (base mass up 11%, premium mass up 39.3%), while VIP win was up over one-third from Q2 2016.

Sports betting technology provider Kambi Sports Solutions insists everything is fine despite revenue rising and profit plunging in the second quarter of 2017.

The Malta-based Kambi released its Q2 earnings report on Wednesday, which showed revenue improving 3% year-on-year to €14.1m in the three months ending June 30. Despite that rise, operating profit fell from €2m in Q2 2016 to just €300k this past quarter, while after-tax profits fell from €1.8m to just €100k.

Kambi blamed a good chunk of the earnings shortfall on the renewal of its contract with UK-listed operator 888 Holdings’ sports betting division 888sport. The parties have just announced a multi-year extension to their relationship, which began four years ago and has seen 888’s sportsbook revenue grow more than five-fold over that span.

Kambi’s new deal with 888sport backdates its commercial terms to January 1, resulting in a €1m adjustment to Kambi’s revenue and earnings over the first half of 2017. Despite this impact, Kambi insists the deal “is in the long-term interest of Kambi’s growth” as it secures multi-year revenue from a “key customer.”

Stockholm-based online gambling operator Kindred Group reported record revenue in the second quarter thanks to contributions from new acquisition 32Red.

Figures released Wednesday show Kindred’s revenue hitting £166.6m in the three months ending June 30, a 32% rise over the same period last year (22% in constant currency terms). Earnings rose 52% to £33.4m while after-tax profits were up by a similar margin to £20.4m.

On June 6, Kindred completed its acquisition of online casino operator 32Red, which contributed revenue of £4.7m and earnings of £1.2m to Kindred’s Q2 results. Kindred is now focused on integrating 32Red’s operations into its own and expects to migrate 32Red onto the Kindred platform by Q2 2018.

Sports betting turnover shot up nearly 28% to £1.15b in Q2, while sports revenue improved 30% to £73.2m. Live betting accounted for 61.6% of turnover and 52.3% of betting revenue.

Two online gambling operators recently received an earful from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over promotions that the UK watchdog deemed “irresponsible” and “misleading.”

First up is Gibraltar-based Coral Interactive, whose TV advertisement was banned for putting pressure on players to gamble.

The TV ad in question was broadcasted on April 16, 2017, and featured stylized clips of footballers with a voiceover stating, “The beautiful game you can watch it or you can get involved in it with the latest Coral action. So are you a spectator or are you a player? You decide. Coral. Get in on the action.”

Two complainants, however, challenged whether the voicer implied only gamblers were true “players” and that gambling was better than watching the sport.

France’s online sports betting market set new records for both turnover and revenue in the second quarter of 2017.

Figures released Wednesday by French gambling regulator ARJEL show sports betting turnover hitting €636m in the three months ending June 30, a 9% rise over the same period last year and a new quarterly record for the French market.

While the betting turnover growth was the smallest year-on-year percentage gain in nearly four years, Q2 2016 featured the Euro 2016 football tournament, which ran from June 10 to July 10. Notably, the apples-to-apples turnover gains in April and May were up 28% year-on-year.

As a result of those early gains, sports betting revenue hit €111m in Q2, up 22% year-on-year and another new market high as pre-bonus sports margins improved by 1.9 points. With the Euro 2016 customer acquisition frenzy a distant memory, bonus offers were down one-third year-on-year, pushing actual margins 3% higher year-on-year.

US casino operator Wynn Resorts saw its new revenues rise 44.5 percent on the back of robust gambling in Macau during the second quarter.

In a regulatory filing, Wynn announced that its net revenue jumped to $1.53 billion in the April to June 2017 period – $470.9 million increase from the same period in 2016.

Adjusted net income attributable to Wynn Resorts also rose to $120.9 million in the second quarter of 2017 from $108.7 million in the same period last year.

Wynn attributed the second quarter revenue increase to the strong performance of Wynn Palace, which opened in the third quarter of 2016, and Wynn Macau.

Sale of digital coins in the United States are subject to the country’s securities laws, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared on Tuesday, possibly marking the beginning of the end for the altcoin era.

The commission has been investigating the tokens offered and sold by The DAO, the ethereum project that lost close to $60 million worth of ether in an attack that took advantage of a code issue.

The so-called “DAO tokens,” according to the SEC, are considered securities, and therefore, fall under the federal securities laws. Issuers of blockchain-based securities are required to register their offers and sales unless a valid exemption applies, and those who participate in unregistered offerings may be liable for violations of the securities laws.

Although it was described as a “crowdfunding contract,” the SEC said the DAO would not have met the requirements of the Regulation Crowdfunding exemption because it was not a broker-dealer nor a funding portal registered with the commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.