everyone suddenly wants their own slot studio big creators are building Engine providers and other casinos are trying to replicate what Stake created so I wanted to look at why this model has become so popular and most importantly how much money the top studios are actually making Engine, previously known as Stake Engine, originally started as Stake's own remote gaming server where independent creators could build and publish casino games directly on Stake using its infrastructure earlier this month Stake Engine officially rebranded to just Engine and is now expanding beyond Stake Roobet is currently the first outside operator while other casinos can already apply, with broader integrations launching on December 11 Engine provides most of the infrastructure, hosting and documentation needed to get a game live but making a game people actually want to keep playing and can generate hundreds of millions in wager is obviously a completely different story and this is where the money gets interesting Engine gives creators 2 ways to get paid the first is the guaranteed model which gives studios more consistent income you get 7.5% of the expected GGR based on your game's RTP so a game with 98% RTP has a 2% expected house edge on $1M wagered that's $20k in expected GGR and the studio would make $1.5k the second option is profit share where you get 10% of the actual GGR if players lose $100k on your games you make $10k if they instead win $100k your profit share balance goes $10k negative and future GGR first has to clear that balance before you get paid again you can switch between the 2 models monthly although any negative profit share balance still has to be cleared and now with Engine expanding outside of Stake there’s another choice studios have to make if they keep their games exclusive to Stake they can keep the full 10% GGR share but if they want their games available to other casinos through Engine the split changes 93% goes to the casino, 2% goes to Engine and 5% goes to the creator so the studio basically gives up half of its revenue share in exchange for distributing the same game across multiple casinos if Engine gets adopted widely that could obviously end up being much more valuable now let’s talk about Valkyrie Studio which is probably the biggest success story on Engine so far the studio was founded by @ProdigyDDK with @Trainwreckstv and @Yassuo also involved from what we know Prodigy has publicly shared on stream that Valkyrie uses the profit share model which makes this really interesting because Stake also shows exactly how much has been wagered and the actual RTP of each game Valkyrie currently has only 19 games but has already done around $15B in wager and over 1.5B bets just to put that into perspective let’s compare it to Nolimit City Nolimit has been around for years and has 118 games on Stake with around $18B wagered and 3B+ bets Valkyrie is already close to that wager with only 19 games obviously they also have some huge advantages Trainwrecks is the biggest gambling streamer in the world and heavily promotes their games, the games themselves are genuinely popular and Stake has thousands of sponsored streamers who are heavily pushed towards playing Engine only games on stream that gives Engine studios a level of exposure most traditional providers would have to spend years building now for the fun part, how much has Valkyrie actually made from Stake? to calculate that we first need to check how much has been wagered on each slot and what the actual RTP is so far their most popular game Waylander's Forge: $9.67B wagered at 97.06% RTP = ~$284.3M GGR Red Strike: $1B wagered at 114.8% RTP = ~-$148M GGR (ouch, this one hurts their profit quite a bit) Angel of Asgard: $710M wagered at 98.05% RTP = ~$13.8M GGR Waylander's Cup: $698M wagered at 93.81% RTP = ~$43.2M GGR Odin's Vault: $619M wagered at 97.35% RTP = ~$16.4M GGR and the other 14 games combined come out to around another $120M in GGR put everything together and Valkyrie's games have generated roughly $330M in GGR for Stake so far since Valkyrie uses the 10% profit share model that would put their estimated earnings at around $33M maybe @ValkyrieXStudio can confirm or deny that figure of course this doesn't mean Valkyrie pocketed $33M that's before salaries, development costs and everything else that goes into constantly releasing new games we also know Train owns part of Valkyrie and Yassuo is involved, with potentially other investors or partners we don't know about but even after all of that ~$33M in estimated studio revenue from only 19 games is pretty crazy and I think Valkyrie is probably the best example so far of what Engine can become now that Engine is expanding beyond Stake this gets even more interesting if a studio can do numbers like this mostly from Stake alone, what happens when the same games are live across multiple major casinos? either way you really can't do much other than give props to Valkyrie and their team for what they've managed to build