The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) is Spain's national online gambling regulator, part of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, licensing online operators under the 2011 Gambling Act, enforcing the 2020 advertising decree and the 2023 safer-gambling environments decree, maintaining the national self-exclusion register, certifying technical systems and acting against unlicensed operators. Land-based gambling is regulated by the autonomous regions.
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Spain's gambling regulator used a cryptocurrency conference to restate that a prediction market offering gambling needs a Spanish licence. It gave no update on the case opened against Polymarket and Kalshi in May, which the ministry expected to take three to four months.
The DGOJ's second-quarter data takes Spain's online market to about €993 million of gross gaming revenue in the first half, roughly 23% up on 2025. New accounts rose by half and operators spent €194 million on marketing, two years after the courts reopened welcome bonuses.
Spain's gambling regulator has reopened one of Europe's most contested advertising fights, proposing to bar celebrities and influencers from all gambling promotion as it rewrites the 2011 Gambling Act, two years after the courts struck down its last attempt.
Spain's gambling regulator, the DGOJ, has ordered a precautionary nationwide block on Polymarket and Kalshi and opened a sanctions procedure, treating the prediction platforms as unlicensed gambling rather than financial exchanges and aligning Spain with a widening European crackdown.