The largest crypto casino by volume, built around provably-fair Originals and a rakeback VIP programme.
Stake is a crypto-first casino and sportsbook operated by Medium Rare N.V. since 2017, licensed in Curaçao and separately licensed in several national markets. It is best known for its in-house Originals, which publish a 99% return to player, and for a VIP programme that pays rakeback rather than a headline welcome match. It does not accept players from the United States, the United Kingdom, France or several other European markets.
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Licence: Curaçao Gaming Authority (OGL/2024/1451/0918) — medium · Operating since 2017 · Provably fair originals
≈4,000 games · 4 game categories · 13 original games
20 cryptocurrencies · Card on-ramp via MoonPay · Low minimum deposit
Typical crypto withdrawal ≈ 15 min (medium) · Fees: Network fee only · Minimum withdrawal documented
KYC: required-at-withdrawal — Four levels. Level 1 is email only. Level 2 (government ID) is required before depositing or withdrawing. Level 3 adds proof of address for larger withdrawals, Level 4 adds source of funds.
Terms linked · Rakeback/VIP: Rakeback and weekly/monthly bonuses through the VIP programme
Android app · Installable web app
Live chat · Email support · 15 languages
US players
Stake.com names the United States as a prohibited jurisdiction. The separate US-facing sweepstakes site is Stake.us.
French players
France is listed among the prohibited jurisdictions in the terms, and online casinos are not authorised by the ANJ.
Restricted
US, GB, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL, BE, AU
Restriction lists change without notice. Always check the operator's current terms before depositing.
Card purchases via MoonPay
Crypto (on-chain) · Lightning Network · MoonPay card purchase
Processed within minutes once verification is complete
Fees: Network fee only
Minimum: BTC 0.001
Four levels. Level 1 is email only. Level 2 (government ID) is required before depositing or withdrawing. Level 3 adds proof of address for larger withdrawals, Level 4 adds source of funds.
Even where identity checks are not required at signup, an operator can request documents at any time under its anti-money-laundering obligations, typically when you withdraw.
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Stake.com operates under a Curaçao licence held by Medium Rare N.V. Curaçao completed a reform of its licensing regime through the Landsverordening op de kansspelen, which replaced the old master-licence system with direct licences issued by the Curaçao Gaming Authority. A direct licence is a meaningful improvement on the sublicence arrangement it replaced, because the regulator now has a relationship with the operator itself.
What it is not is a licence that means anything to a regulator in the United States, the United Kingdom or France. Those markets license operators themselves, and Stake.com is not among them, which is why it blocks them.
Stake also holds separate national licences in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Denmark. Those are real, market-specific authorisations and they are the reason the site behaves differently depending on where you open it.
Stake built its early reputation on minimal identity checks, and that reputation has outlived the reality. The current structure has four levels. Level 1 is an email confirmation. Level 2 requires a government-issued identity document and is needed before you deposit or withdraw at all. Level 3 adds proof of address for larger withdrawals. Level 4 asks for source of funds, and applies to high-volume accounts.
If you are choosing an operator specifically to avoid identity verification, Stake is no longer that operator. The practical advice is to complete Level 2 when you open the account rather than when you want your money, because the verification queue is time you spend waiting for a withdrawal you have already won.
Stake's in-house games — Plinko, Mines, Crash, Dice, Limbo, Keno, Wheel, Hi-Lo and Dragon Tower among them — run at a published 99% return to player, which is a 1% house edge. That is genuinely low: a typical third-party slot sits between 94% and 96.5%, and Spribe's Aviator, the most widely played third-party crash game, runs at 97%.
Two caveats matter. First, a 1% edge is still an edge, and it applies to every bet you place, not to your deposit. Second, the risk setting inside a game changes the shape of the distribution, not the return: a high-risk Plinko drop and a low-risk one have the same expected value, and the high-risk version simply loses more often in exchange for rarer, larger wins. Our Plinko odds calculator shows the exact bucket probabilities behind that.
Crypto withdrawals are processed within minutes once your account is verified to the level your withdrawal size requires. Stake does not add its own fee on top of the network fee, which is the market norm among crypto-first operators rather than a distinguishing feature.
Each coin has its own minimum: 0.001 BTC, 0.01 ETH, 0.1 LTC and 20 USDT among them. If you are playing small, check the minimum for your chain before you deposit, because a balance below the minimum is a balance you cannot move.
No. Stake.com names the United States as a prohibited jurisdiction. Stake operates a separate sweepstakes site, Stake.us, which uses virtual currencies and is available in some but not all states. Using a VPN to get around a geographic restriction breaches the terms and typically means a confiscated balance rather than a clever workaround.
No. France appears among the prohibited jurisdictions in Stake's terms, and separately, online casinos are not authorised by the French regulator, the ANJ.
Yes. Level 2 verification, which needs a government-issued ID, is required before you can deposit or withdraw. Higher levels apply to larger withdrawals.
Stake publishes 99% for its Originals, which is a 1% house edge. Third-party slots on the same site have their own, usually lower, RTPs.
Crypto withdrawals are typically processed within minutes once verification is complete. The time your funds then take to arrive depends on the blockchain you chose.