Sky Sentinels

What is Sky Sentinels?

Across 104 matches and more than 100 million bets, AI handled every stage of the pricing lifecycle – from ingesting data and creating the offering to managing liabilities and settling bets. The platform recorded zero downtime, delivered an operator trading margin of 18% and, during the final alone, processed more than one million unique bet combinations.

Kambi had set itself the ambitious target of delivering the entire tournament through AI. By the time Spain lifted the trophy, it had provided compelling evidence that automated trading could withstand the scale and intensity of sport’s biggest betting event while improving the experience offered to operators and their customers.

“The Fifa World Cup draws global attention in a way that no other sporting event can, and it was the best stress test of the technology we could have asked for,” says Oliver Lamb, SVP of trading at Kambi.

What is Sky Sentinels?

The design is organized around color-coded Crystal Scatters, each tied to a distinct feature path. Every color is paired with a matching skull display and feature path: green for Upgrade, blue for Expand and red for Multiplier, and each feature awards seven spins as standard.

Each path alters a different part of the math model. Upgrade Free Spins turns Bison symbols into Thunder Bison that pay twice the standard value, while Expand Free Spins opens the grid to five reels by six rows and 7,776 payways. The third path introduces multiplier wilds to the middle reels.

The strategic detail is what happens when features overlap. When two feature types activate together, Super Charged Free Spins combines both sets of mechanics, and when all three activate, Mega Stampede Free Spins brings the six-row grid, Thunder Bison and Multiplier Wilds into the same seven spins.

What is Sky Sentinels?

Tim Miller, who resigned from the UK Gambling Commission earlier this year, has stepped down from the GREF board and has relinquished his role as treasurer. 

Miller served on the forum for several years and was a key UK figure during a period when the Gambling Commission implemented extensive reforms to online gambling regulation and affordability checks. GREF expressed its gratitude for Miller’s contributions during his tenure.

Jean-Michel Costes has also left the board after concluding his role at France’s Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ).