On July 16, 2025, MetaWin made a major announcement on its official X page. In a move that the MetaWin team promises will take this platform to the next level, they proudly reported that MetaWin’s CEO, Richard Skelhorn, has acquired the @casino handle on Instagram and X. That has led to this site rebranding its upcoming native token from $MWIN to $CASINO. Let us be real, that is a pretty cool name. In their announcement, MetaWin noted they have not gone through this name change for vanity, but to better position themselves in the token sphere, as with a name such as $CASINO, they are guaranteed more reach and mainstream acceptance, and that aligns with what they hope to achieve with their planned ecosystem development.
According to its management, this is a revolutionary step for the MetaWin brand, which they claim was built differently, meaning organically, and with a vision to reward loyal users. Hence, this recent pivot is a strategic shift toward creating a universal token that will help power an infrastructure that will offer something novel in the crypto-gaming landscape.
Per Richard Skelhorn, or Skel, as he is best known, he and his team were holding off on taking the token dive as they wanted to do this properly and ensure that when they drop it, it will be something worth holding by people who share the same views as the people behind MetaWin. In the press release for this rebranding, Skelhorn pointed out that $CASINO will too get integrated into other operations run by his team, such as the successful WOW Vegas sweepstakes casino based out of Gibraltar, which targets US gamblers. It is managed by MW Services Ltd., a company registered as a digital marketing agency, with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. The idea is for this asset to achieve interoperability across various platforms.
Info right now is scarce on how the $CASINO token will work, aside from that it will be an Ethereum one. We did notice that the $MWIN points on the MetaWin platform, which were an internal loyalty credit system for upcoming token allocation, did get rebranded as $CASINO points. That happened automatically.
We tried asking around in the official MetaWin Discord (Arena), but even experienced MetaWin users there did not know much, if anything, about it. The cited press release noted that to incentivize participation, those who have used MetaWin, those who start playing now, and holders of MetaWin’s NFTs are all eligible for rewards tied to the $CASINO token. Skelhorn encourages everyone to get in on the $CASINO-point accumulation and amass as many points as possible before the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE).
Who Is Richard Skelhorn?
Skelhorn is a serial entrepreneur who has made some waves in the iGaming sector. He is the founder of the Atemi Group, which was a social and paid media advertising company that got up and running in 2015, and got sold to Better Collective in 2020 for $51 million. The previous year, Atemi had notched an impressive 70% growth compared to 2018, and it had generated €33 million in revenue. It was a significant player in the B2B gambling arena and focused on comprehensive sales funnel solutions.
While Atemi was probably Skelhorn’s most profitable venture before he established MetaWin, he had different successes in the gambling realm in a career that spanned over two decades. Around 2000, he co-founded Mandalay Media Group, later known as Mandalay Gaming, which was behind multiple popular bingo and casino affiliate sites, and in 2007, he co-founded Tournament.com. That was a UK-based platform that had limited success, but was one of the earliest steps in the domain of skill gaming monetization. It offered cash prizes for competitive gaming.
His sites MetaWin and WOW Casino get operated by Asobi N.V., whose staff is primarily located in London, but operates as a Curaçao-registered entity licensed in Anjouan.
Richard recently made the news cycle for buying an almost fifteen-thousand-square-foot eight-bedroom property in Miami Beach for $45 million. Yet, his LinkedIn profile notes his location as Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Skelhorn prominently posts on X – @Skelhorn, and on Instagram – skel100x. On the latter social network, he frequently likes to show off his impressive car collection and luxurious lifestyle.
MetaWin Casino – What Does It Offer?
In 2022, Skelhorn partnered with Hola through its Venture Partners Acceleration Program to develop and launch MetaWin Casino. As discussed above, this is an Anjouan-regulated website, one with a gaming library that is several thousand games deep, spanning all the popular iGaming genres. The platform has original games, promotions like its Free Spins Friday and Game of the Week ones, plus smart contract-based competitions.
MetaWin runs a VIP system where you advance from its Bronze tier to the MetaGod rank, attaining perks like VIP support and various bonuses. But, the main attraction for many here is the sense of community this brand has fostered and the potential innovation it will likely implement going forward.
The design here is outdated, the hub has an English-only interface, offers no anonymity, and lacks live chat and email support, relying on Discord-Arena tickets for user aid.
We are sure that some of our reader pool that has not tested out this site yet may have been swayed by its name appearing in the news at the end of 2024, when it got reported that MetaWin lost $4 million from its Ethereum and Solana hot wallets due to a phishing attack. Various outlets posted about this incident, where hackers exploited the platform’s ‘frictionless’ withdrawal system, draining funds from it. Skelhorn covered much of the losses from personal funds and assured users that 95% of withdrawals were restored.
That was yet another situation in the crypto gambling landscape where the vulnerabilities of hot wallets got exposed. For those not super familiar with digital coins, these wallets are online, compared to cold ones, which are offline, making them more prone to attacks. This hack added to already growing crypto security concerns, following major breaches like the $58 million Radiant Capital exploit that occurred near this one, in October 2024.
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