Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?

South Dakota's technical compliance picture moved this cycle on the strength of the totalizator-hub rulemaking. As part of the same package proposing to implement online and mobile advance-deposit pari-mutuel wagering, the South Dakota Commission on Gaming has proposed security and account standards governing wagering-system examination for the new multi-jurisdictional hub channel. These standards remain at proposed-rule stage, following the public hearing held 2026-06-23, and should be treated as fragile pending finalisation rather than settled technical law. Separately, and unrelated to the hub rulemaking, SDCoG issued routine game-rule maintenance this cycle: amended pay tables for the 21+3 blackjack variant (53 SDR 21/26, effective August 2026), updated ARCA medication standards for racing, and the addition of a Three Card poker variant, all administered as ordinary technical rule updates rather than substantive compliance shifts. Together, these developments indicate that SDCoG's technical rulemaking activity is presently concentrated on enabling the new advance-deposit wagering channel, while the existing Deadwood-facing technical framework continues under routine maintenance with no material change to its underlying certification or standards regime this cycle.