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cMost game studios launch with hope. Origami launched with receipts.  When a new gaming platform enters the market, operators face a familiar gamble: invest resources integrating unproven content, hope it resonates with players, and pray it drives revenue. It’s expensive, risky, and often disappointing. Origami is rewriting this equation entirely. Their games didn’t just launch, they arrived with a track record that would make any established studio jealous: $20 billion in betting volume processed over the past 12 months, tens of thousands of monthly active users, and a proven ability to generate more than 50% of total platform revenue. These aren’t projections. This is history. The Shuffle Success Story Nobody Talked About While the broader iGaming industry was obsessing over mega-mergers, regulatory expansion, and the latest slot innovations, something remarkable was happening in the crypto casino space. Shuffle.com, one of the world’s top five crypto betting brands, was quietly perfecting a formula that traditional operators had overlooked: instant games that players actually wanted to play. Three executives at Shuffle, Ishan Haque, Joe Sharland, and Ryan Heybourn, were responsible for building and refining this gaming portfolio. They watched player behavior at massive scale, iterated on game mechanics, optimized performance, and ultimately created something rare in the gambling industry: a genuinely defensible hit catalog. Now they’ve taken those same games and made them available to the rest of the iGaming world through Origami. What $20 Billion in Volume Actually Means Let’s pause on that number: $20 billion in betting volume. To put it in perspective, many publicly traded gambling companies generate annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. Gross gaming revenue (the amount casinos keep after paying winners) typically represents 2-5% of total betting volume, depending on game type and hold percentage. Even at conservative estimates, $20 billion in volume translates to…

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