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NeuroShield
See the entire gaming market. Control the legal. Expose the illegal.
At a glance
- Data sources
- 400+
- Product modules
- 18
- Monitoring
- Real-time
- Protected registry target
- 99.99%
- Regulatory operations
- 24/7
- National-grade architecture
- Secure
The problem
Stop chasing URLs. Start disrupting networks.
Traditional blocking targets a URL. A blocked operator returns the next day on a new domain, with the same brand, the same affiliates and the same payment infrastructure behind it, and the regulator starts again.
NeuroShield identifies the economic and technological network behind the domain: the company, the beneficial owner, the brand fingerprint, the affiliate codes, the merchants, the payment service providers and the wallets. Enforcement then acts on the network rather than on whatever domain it is using today.
The scale of the problem
$5.9 trillion
Estimated global unregulated online gambling handle in 2025
Up from $5.7 trillion in 2024 and $5.1 trillion in 2023. Unregulated operators are estimated to take roughly 78% of global online gambling gross gaming revenue (GGR), against 22% for regulated operators.
Handle is the total value wagered, not operator revenue — the same money is staked and re-staked many times over. It is also an online-only estimate from a single commercial source, not an audited or government figure.
Source: Gaming Compliance International (GCI), "GCI Online Gaming 2025: Global"
NeuroShield is a national Gaming Intelligence, Control and Enforcement platform built for gaming regulators, governments and financial authorities. It unifies market access, real-time control, illegal-market intelligence, payments, AML, player protection and enforcement into one operating model.
GCA developed the platform out of its own regulatory practice. The design reflects how a regulator actually works: a licence is granted, a market is monitored, an illegal operator is found, an enforcement action is taken, and somebody has to be able to show afterwards whether it worked.
What it correlates
11 signal types, cross-referenced to build the network behind a single domain.
Domains
Infrastructure
Brand fingerprints
Analytics IDs
Affiliate codes
Payment methods
Merchants
PSPs
Crypto wallets
Companies
Directors & UBOs
One platform
Four control layers
01
Intelligence
See what operates outside the regulated market.
Discover illegal operators, infrastructure, payments and networks across the open web.
02
Control
Know what happens inside the licensed market.
Real-time and near-real-time monitoring of operators, games, transactions and devices.
03
Protect
Protect players without compromising the intelligence perimeter.
Age verification, self-exclusion, AML and responsible gaming in an isolated protected environment.
04
Regulator
Turn data into action.
Licensing, investigations, inspections, fiscal control, enforcement, appeals and reporting in one place.
Core capabilities
A full regulatory stack, not another monitoring dashboard
NeuroShield Scout
Find illegal operators before they become established.
- CT logs and new domains
- Search and ad libraries
- App stores and public social
- Pirate and grey websites
NeuroShield Mirror
Keep blocked operators blocked by discovering mirror infrastructure automatically.
- Visual and DOM similarity
- Infrastructure matching
- Affiliate identifiers
- Accelerated re-review
NeuroShield Control
Independent visibility into the regulated market.
- Wagers and sessions
- GGR, deposits, payouts
- RNG and game versions
- Land-based telemetry
NeuroShield Pay
Disrupt payments, not just websites.
- MID, MCC and PSP
- Acquirer mapping
- Payment journey capture
- Crypto wallet intelligence
NeuroShield Gate
Technical authorization and certification as a gateway to legal market access.
- Audit and sandbox
- Conformity testing
- Authorization certificate
- Continuous certification
NeuroShield Reconcile
Create a regulatory source of financial truth.
- Wagers against settlements
- Meters against game events
- Declarations against derived figures
- Variance management
NeuroShield AML
Gaming intelligence meets financial intelligence.
- Structuring and velocity
- Rapid cash-in and cash-out
- Layering typologies
- STR workflow
NeuroShield Protect
Observe responsible-gaming compliance continuously.
- Age warnings
- Limits and self-exclusion
- Bonus restrictions
- Advertising compliance
Closed-loop enforcement
From detection to verified outcome
The platform measures whether a regulatory decision actually worked, not merely whether a notice was sent.
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01
Discover
Web, apps, ads, mirrors, payments.
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02
Enrich
WHOIS, DNS, ASN, screenshots, payment clues.
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03
Review
Explainable risk score and a human decision.
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04
Evidence
WORM storage, hashes, timestamps, legal basis.
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05
Enforce
ISPs, banks, PSPs, stores, registrars, ad networks.
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06
Verify
Measure blocking and takedown outcomes.
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07
Repeat
Mirror reappearance returns to discovery.
See it running
The entire market, one screen
Executive visibility across market health, licensed operators, illegal networks, enforcement, AML, responsible gaming and fiscal reconciliation.
Channelisation
62%
Active operators
148
6 under review
Illegal networks
312
42 high priority
GGR variance
1.8%
across reporting population
Open AML cases
128
17 escalated
RG compliance
91%
licensed population
Figures shown in the platform screens are illustrative and describe the platform's capabilities, not measured results.
What this means for a government
The legal market grows. The illegal one loses ground.
Four platform capabilities, four concrete effects on the market a government is responsible for.
Grow the taxable market
Channelisation — the share of play happening through licensed operators rather than illegal ones — is a figure the platform measures directly. Every player who moves from an unlicensed site to a licensed one becomes activity that is visible, reportable and part of the declared GGR a government can actually tax.
Shrink the untaxed one
Enforcement targets the company, the beneficial owner, the affiliate codes and the payment rails behind an illegal operator, not only its current domain. An operator that has to rebuild its infrastructure after every action stays disrupted for longer than one that only has to register a new domain.
Close the gap between declared and actual
NeuroShield Reconcile checks what a licensed operator declares against what the platform independently observes — wagers against settlements, meters against game events — so a variance becomes visible to the regulator, not only to the operator.
Give the financial authority something to act on
Payment-layer intelligence — merchant IDs, acquirers, payment service providers, crypto wallets — turns "an illegal operator exists" into a specific merchant account or wallet that a bank, PSP or financial authority can take action against.
Who it is for
Built for institutions, not operators
Gaming regulators
Licensing, monitoring, enforcement and fiscal control in one system.
Governments and ministries
The ministries responsible for licensing policy, fiscal policy and national market strategy.
Financial authorities
Payment-layer intelligence and AML typologies specific to gaming.
Law enforcement
Evidence packages with chain of custody for proceedings.
Regulatory-grade architecture
National infrastructure should remain national
Deploy in a government data centre, sovereign cloud or dedicated national cloud, with open standards, local control and strong data separation.
- mTLS
- Institutional integrations and partner feeds.
- MFA and RBAC
- Controlled privileged access and segregation of duties.
- WORM
- Immutable evidence and an auditable chain of custody.
- Signing
- Cryptographically signed feeds and regulatory records.
- Encryption
- Protection in transit and at rest.
- Disaster recovery
- Resilience for national-scale regulatory operations.
Know the market. Control the market. Protect the market.
Briefings are given to regulatory authorities, ministries and financial authorities, on request and under confidentiality.
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