I’ll admit it. I love horse racing. I’m not a big-dollar gambler, but the sport appeals to me. That might be because I happen to live in one of the only places where they race live 12 months a year, in the sunshine. But as horsemen in most U.S. states know, racetracks are tied at the hip with casinos. Because that’s what brings in the really huge dollars. So racing and gaming get “coupled” in many locales. And there’s no denying that casinos, sports books, and other forms of “gaming” are about as hot an i ...

The logos of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), the stablecoin Tether (USDT) and Binance Coin (BNB) can be seen on the trading platform CoinMarketCap.VanEck is betting that what started as a slang for reckless online traders can sell an ETF.The firm is renaming its gaming ETF (BJK) the "VanEck Degen Economy ETF," flipping the once-pejorative term into a marketing pitch for the boom in digital finance, gig platforms and online betting, according to a regulatory filing. The change takes effec ...