Empire.io

1. Yolo group pedigree

We start from the beginning: this casino is a part of Yolo casino group, to which also belong

• BITCASINO.IO
• SPORTSBET.IO and others. 

So, they have three and now four casino brands and maybe even more in the coming days. 

Talking about Yolo, it is a quite renowned gambling group but mostly focused on B2B things. They provide aggregation of sort machines and also they are a sort of accelerator or investor into other games and gambling studios or gambling products. 

2. Own investment fund where they claim to have invested 150-200 mil

So if you look at the website of Yolo group you will see that they have made a claim to have made investments between 150 to 200 million euro to the date. 

The idea is that they mostly invest in gambling and fintech with the suchpurchases of there as: 

1. a Bombay group, a live casino provider and also 
2. OneTouch, their own company which makes certain games, table games, etc.

So, wrapping it up:

• they have their own investment fund,
• they they own B2B platform to aggregate slot machines, 
• their own game provider One Touch and they own live game / live table game studio called Bombay group. 

So it's kind of the ecosystem behind this group of enterprises which is really interesting because obviously it's not just another name in the world of gambling, it has some traction, some history and some other people behind it. Likewise, the overall team of the Yolo group is more than 500 people.

By the way, if you're looking for an investor you may send your pitch deck to them because they are claiming to be interested in investing even more. 

3. Empire.io, a slowburner with it's own community

Regarding Empire.io, this Casino website is not really visible on many affiliate sites, so if you go and feel like looking at the crypto gambling or other affiliates it is rare that you can find them. I believe they don't have a big affiliation program with lots of people there so they are kind of slow burners. 

What's also notable about them is that they have their own communities on YouTube, Discord, Telegram, etc. However, for example, on YouTube it's not that popular as yet.

Part 2. Fully licensed with no KYC?! Their bonus and look & feel.

So, we meant to be talking about how Empire.io claims to be a fully licensed and regulated crypto Casino with no KYC, which is Know Your Customer identification. Why is it even interesting for this review is because, in my view, if you're a crypto casino it's not always obligatory to have any licence at all, for more details please see my report how dapp casinos challenge the old industry. 

So in these days of 2023 I'm not a big proponent of licences... Would just be like 10 years ago, I would say: yeah Curacao is very bad, no licence is no good, but now I have changed my mind because all the industry has been developing really dynamically. Now that a licence doesn't guarantee much, the idea of crypto casinos is to be able to change the industry from within, not to become another one of the likes of the casinos that have already been in place for 10 years or even more. 

The thing is that the Empire.io has been claiming that we have a Curacao licence, which in my opinion gives a little protection if at all, and also it is under this Curacao licence that they are providing no KYC. This sounds kind of nonsense to me. If you go for a licence you'd say we are abiding by law. If you allow visiting from France (like I do), which must be restricted by the Curacao licence too, and if you allow skipping the KYC, what kind of licence is that? 

Furthermore, on their YouTube channel they claim to have a unique welcome bonus. Let's look deeper into it. Maybe it will give a clue of its unique points, because from what we see now Empire.io is not HunnyPlay or Betfury - decentralised casinos -, it's a regular one, which is not bad in any regard also. I have them on my website and I believe it's a fine option, but what’s its significance, what is the differentiation point?

Empire.io bonuses review

Obviously one of the biggest differentiation points is the welcome bonus and all the types of bonuses they offer. 
And starting we will start with a welcome bonus.

1. Welcome Bonus. 

Here we have a 100% match up bonus up to a huge amount of 1 BTC, which makes twenty eight thousand Euros. It is kind of huge not many casinos would give this kind of bonus... But the idea of such welcome bonus is not something new, it's not that something
surprisingly interesting: it is a generic welcome bonus which goes with 50 times play through requirements (25x deposit + 25x reward money). 

Likewise, if you for example deposit 1000 Euro, you will have to play through your 1000 Euro for 25 times, which makes 25 000 in bets, plus you get 1 000 Euro on top of it as a match bonus, and you also must do the same 25 times play through with this match bonus.

2. 10 minutes 20% boost on Tuesdays

What else they have is 10 minutes every Tuesday Lucky hour, more precisely Lucky 10 minutes when they have a 20% boost up to 1 000 USDT. So, in addition to what you will earn in this 10 minutes of time - a one little streak - and if you ever manage to win something, they can add-up up to 20% to it to a maximum of 1000 USDT on any video slot of your choice. 

I think this is a nice idea: introduce yourself to a machine you can play it over the week and when Tuesday comes you can take this 10 minutes (you will see your 20 boost in your user area) and you can try it. I think it's a no-nonsense bonus and it is all right.

What about the other types of bonuses? They have Tournaments and they have a Loyalty Club.

So tournaments are about making you play more and more, making you turn over your bets, your deposit more and more. So they have:

• Wager Wars
• Bet Blitz
• Multiplier Madness. 

3. Tournaments

Wager Wars is simple and clean, it's about the one who wager the most will get the prize, it is clear and it goes on every Monday.

Every Wednesday through Thursday it's the same idea but called Bet Blitz and the biggest wager amount will make it to the top of this tournament.

The end of the week (Friday and the weekend) this is Multiplier Madness and it tells that a player with the highest multiplier on any game will get the first prize. So it means that if you play many times you sometimes get your bet multiplied for example by 1000 times, which is kind of okay, and if you do this you get on top of this tournament list and you get your prize. 

Well I believe it's kind of okay. It more or less sounds like a program for tournaments and it's not bad at all.

4. Empire.io Loyalty club

Right, the Empire.io's loyalty Club is made to retain the players within this casino operator like everybody else and the idea is to to make you progress through the levels of this Loyalty Club. So the more you progress the more you get. The idea of every Loyalty Club is in the personalization, so it means that once you once they know (the software knows) your playing habits, your favourite games, your schedule and everything like that they would reward you with two things.

The first is cashback the more you play the more you progress on this leather of loyalty the more cashback you get and.
Secondly, this is free spins. When you play your favourite games, for example, Big Time Gaming or Pragmatic Play, they try to reward you with the free spins on these games. What's important is that these free spins come without any wagering requirements.

So summing it up, Empire.io loyalty Club is about:

1. being personalised to your experience, and about 
2. bringing no wager Free Spins on games that you like. 

Wrapping it up

This is mostly all about the the things they claim to be:

1. the Yolo group pedigree.
2. being a crypto casino with no kyc and 
3. their unique bonuses.

So let's take a look on the website and try to make some final strokes to the portrait of this casino. So they have a nice website with a strictly and clearly organised Lobby. Most of the attention goes to their own best live casino games including Bombay live (they own software provider), which is not a bad idea. Some of these are targeted towards Asian countries which is nice with regard to the Curacao licence and the overall Geographic targeting. 

Also they would feature some good games from Wazdan, PlaynGo, Push Gaming and also their own One Touch provider you which is their 
feature, which has a kind of nice of nice Synergy effect.

The payments methods are usual crypto methods, including Bitcoin cash, Litecoin, Tether, Dogecoin, BinanceUSD, etc. Well, if you like this kind of casino, I invite you to play through affiliate links present on my website. 

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