Ukraine's gambling regulatory authority PlayCity officially launched a pilot of the national online monitoring system named DSOM this week. This centralized transaction monitoring platform aims to capture and integrate every bet, payout, and prize distribution in the national licensed gambling market at near real-time speed. Currently, 11 licensed gambling operators have been connected to the platform for trial operation, marking a shift in Ukrainian gambling regulation from traditional manual sampling to data-driven comprehensive digital supervision. The system's core goal is clear: to provide regulators with a comprehensive view of market operations, strengthen tax compliance, and achieve data-driven precise regulation.
Anti-tampering design for 10,000 transactions per second
The underlying architecture of DSOM was embedded with a critical firewall from the outset—every transaction record, once submitted, is immutable, and all betting, payout, and prize distribution actions are assigned unique identifiers to ensure data integrity. The system's processing capacity reaches 10,000 transactions per second, sufficient to cover all active traffic in the Ukrainian licensed gambling market. Notably, PlayCity emphasizes that the system does not collect personal data of players, nor does it track the flow of funds once they leave the gambling environment. This design clearly delineates the boundary between deep data monitoring and personal privacy protection.
DSOM is equipped with two interfaces—an internal interface for national regulatory authorities and an external interface for licensed gambling operators. New licensed operators will have their details registered in the system within one working day of obtaining their license. The national tax authority will have access to tracking data to accurately calculate gambling gross income and related taxes, including conscription tax and personal income tax.
Digital regulation rebuilt from the ruins of KRAIL
The pilot launch of DSOM comes just about a month after PlayCity introduced an online complaint system aimed at accelerating public reporting of illegal gambling advertisements. Following the official dissolution of the Ukrainian Gambling and Lottery Commission in April 2024 due to slow licensing and the transfer of regulatory functions to the Department of Digital Transformation, PlayCity, as the successor agency, is intensively building a new digital regulatory infrastructure. From public reporting of illegal advertisements to full-chain penetration of licensed operator transaction data, two digital paths are simultaneously tightening the network of Ukrainian gambling regulation.
PASA official website continues to track the latest developments in global gambling regulatory technology and digital infrastructure, noting that the Ukrainian DSOM system's architecture design, which directly connects transaction monitoring with tax calculation, is providing a noteworthy technical reference for how emerging gambling regulatory markets can reshape tax monitoring capabilities and data governance systems in the digital age.
————
This article is from "PASA-Global iGaming Leaders," a gambling industry news channel:https://t.me/pasa_news
Original deep channel for gambling:https://t.me/gamblingdeep
Free data reports: @pasa_research
PASA Matrix: @pasa002_bot
PASA official website: https://www.pasa.news
