Stake review 2026

Overview

Stake.com is the largest crypto casino by tracked deposit volume — processing $1.95B in the 30 days to 1 November 2026 from roughly 3.95 million deposits. Founded in 2017 by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani and operated by Medium Rare N.V. (Curacao), Stake pioneered the modern crypto casino model combining provably fair original games, 0x-wagering VIP rakeback, and seamless cryptocurrency integration. Down 13% on Tanzanite's previous 30 days, Stake's lead is still absolute — it takes in about 4.5× as much as second-place Roobet ($436M). The platform accepts 20+ cryptocurrencies, offers 3,000+ casino games, and includes a fully functional sportsbook. Two honest caveats sit alongside that scale: its Curacao licence carries lighter player protections than the UKGC or MGA, and in September 2023 Stake suffered a $41M hot-wallet hack (covered in detail below) which Stake says left customer balances whole. Stake.com is geo-restricted in the US (the separate StakeUS sweepstakes brand serves some states), and is no longer available in the UK (exited March 2025), with France, the Netherlands and other jurisdictions also blocked.

Bonus details — itemized & honest

Let's be straight about this, because most affiliate sites are not: Stake.com runs no standard deposit-match welcome bonus and no no-deposit bonus by default. A deposit is always required. Per Stake's help centre (as of 22 Oct 2026), entering an affiliate code within 24 hours of opening your account activates rakeback of 3.5% of the house edge from your first bet; without a code, rakeback starts at Bronze VIP after $10,000 wagered. Some partner codes also attach a 200% first-deposit match — only if you sign up through a referral/promo code — and it carries real wagering terms. Here is exactly what that looks like:

The real engine is the VIP program, not a match. Stake's ladder runs Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum I–VI, Diamond I–V and Obsidian (from $10,000 wagered to $1 billion). Stake's help centre puts rakeback at 3.5% of the house edge on every bet with zero wagering requirements; per-tier rakeback rates are not published. On top of that, VIPs get weekly boosts (posted to the VIP Telegram channel, claimable from the VIP tab 24 hours later) and monthly bonuses sent by email — not auto-credited. Originals players also share Daily Races prize pools. Because promo offers and codes shift frequently, treat the figures above as the current pattern and confirm the live terms on Stake before depositing.

✦ How to verify Stake's provably-fair games

This is where Stake genuinely earns trust, and it is something you can check yourself rather than take on faith. Stake's in-house Originals (Dice, Plinko, Mines, Crash, Limbo, Hilo, Keno, Wheel, Diamonds and more) are provably fair: every result is derived from a server seed + your client seed + a nonce, combined through HMAC-SHA256. Crucially, Stake publishes the hashed server seed before you play — a cryptographic commitment it cannot change after the fact.

• 1.Before betting, Stake shows you the SHA-256 hash of its server seed — locking in the result set in advance.
• 2.You can set your own client seed, so you contribute randomness Stake can't predict.
• 3.When you rotate seeds, Stake reveals the previous unhashed server seed. You can hash it yourself and confirm it matches the commitment.
• 4.Re-run the server seed + client seed + nonce through HMAC-SHA256 and you reproduce the exact outcome of any past bet — independently, with no trust in Stake required.

Stake exposes all four steps, and the per-game maths is documented (for example, Dice maps the resulting float via float×10001/100). Don't take our word for it either — paste your own server seed, client seed and nonce into our free Provably Fair Verifier and recompute a bet in seconds. New to the concept? Start with our explainer, What is provably fair gambling? (Note: this verification covers Stake's Originals; third-party slots and live games are instead SEAL-certified by GameCheck.)

What Stake's own pages commit to. The implementation page (checked 1 Nov 2026) says the server seed is "a random 64-character hex string", that you are given its hash "before you place any bets", that revealing it requires you to rotate the seed, and that players "are free to edit and change their client seed regularly". Each result takes four bytes of an HMAC-SHA256 output, and a cursor extends the stream for games that need more than eight numbers. The game-events page then gives the conversion for each Original: Mines, for instance, is "24 separate game events" placed with a Fisher-Yates shuffle. On 1 Nov 2026 the Originals lobby listed 31 games. Our Stake Seed Checker rebuilds seven of them from the seeds alone: Dice, Limbo, Roulette, Keno, Mines (1 to 24 mines), Plinko (8 to 16 rows) and Crash. For the rest, Stake's own calculation page is the check. The help centre's article on the subject is titled Provable Fairness for Stake Original Games (10 Nov 2026), which is the scope: Originals, not supplier games.

Security & track record — the honest picture

Stake is an established, highly profitable operator, but it is not without history, and we won't pretend otherwise. On 4 September 2023, Stake suffered a ~$41M hot-wallet hack across Ethereum, BSC and Polygon; the FBI attributed it to North Korea's Lazarus Group. Co-founder Ed Craven disputed that private keys were compromised, framing it as a breach of a transaction-authorization service. Per Stake, player balances were unaffected and reimbursed, and there has been no insolvency since. Independently, Casino.Guru assigns Stake a Safety Index of 7.9/10 ("Above average") and found no unfair or predatory terms in its T&Cs; Trustpilot sits around 3.9/5 across thousands of reviews. Stake also exited the UK in March 2025 following a UK Gambling Commission investigation. None of this makes Stake a scam — but a Curacao licence offers lighter recourse than the UKGC/MGA, so size your bankroll accordingly.

Withdrawals: published limits, fees and conditions

Stake's help centre publishes a minimum and a fixed fee for each coin, and no maximum. The figures below are in units of the coin, as listed on 10 November 2026; 21 coins are listed in total, and Stake says the live figure is shown at the bottom of the withdrawal screen.

• No maximum. "There are no restrictions on the maximum withdrawal amount. You can withdraw as much money as you have available in your account."
• No processing time is stated. The help centre says "larger withdrawal amounts may require manual processing by our administrators, which can result in a temporary hold", and that every transaction then has to be confirmed on its blockchain.
• Deposits must be played once. "Every deposit made on Stake.com must be wagered 100% before withdrawals or tips can be made." A progress bar on the withdrawal page tracks it. Sports bets count when they settle, not when they are placed.
• Deposit-and-withdraw is refused. A deposit withdrawn "without placing any bets" is treated as coin mixing and "the withdrawal will be invalid".
• Each request is confirmed. Your email must be verified first, and each withdrawal asks for a 2FA code, a code sent by email, or (for accounts created through Google, Facebook, Line or Twitch) an OAuth re-verification.
• Fee handling. Stake says every withdrawal has "a fee which will be deducted directly from your balance".
• Unsupported networks. Stake lists Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and the Cronos network among the networks it does not support, and tells players to send each coin only over its listed network so that deposits are credited "without any issues".

Sources: Stake help centre, withdrawal limits, help with withdrawals, how to make a withdrawal, wager requirement and supported networks, checked 10 November 2026. The networks column is Stake's general supported-networks list; its USDT withdrawal steps name ERC-20, BEP-20, Polygon and TRC-20. For the step-by-step process see how to withdraw from Stake; for how this compares with other casinos see crypto casino withdrawal times.

Licence register entry and the documents Stake asks for

Licence. The Curaçao Gaming Authority's Online Gaming License Registry (last updated 5 November 2026) lists Medium Rare N.V., company registration 145353, as a B2C licensee under OGL/2024/1451/0918, issued 9 December 2025, with a printed expiry of 9 June 2026 and the status "Assessment in progress". Nearly 300 of the registry's 667 entries carry that status; others, including the operators of Roobet and Shuffle, are marked "Indefinite". The registry does not define its status labels, and the Authority says its overviews "do not guarantee the current validity of the licenses". Medium Rare N.V. does not appear on the Authority's enforcement register (last updated 14 September 2026), which lists licences that were revoked, suspended or not extended. Both documents are linked from the Authority's licence register page (checked 10 November 2026).

Verification documents. Each of Stake's document pages opens with the same warning: its compliance team "reserves the right to request any documentation at any given time". What it accepts, per the help centre on 10 November 2026:

• Proof of identity: an international passport, a national ID card (both sides) or a driving licence (both sides). The document must be valid for at least three months, photographed in colour, undamaged, fully visible and in Latin script. Screenshots and digital copies are refused.
• Proof of address: a utility bill, bank or credit-card statement, council or government tax letter, a stamped letter from an employer or school, a tenancy agreement or a bank reference letter in English, issued within the last six months. Mobile phone bills, purchase receipts and medical bills are not accepted.
• Proof of source of income: bank statements showing regular income (usually three to six months), payslips, tax returns, investment statements, or documents for a gift, inheritance, property sale, business income, loan, divorce settlement or lottery win. For crypto mining, a ledger of the amount mined plus the wallet address and transaction hash.

Sources: Stake help centre, proof of identity, proof of address and proof of source of income.

Account security settings and gambling controls

These are the controls Stake documents for the account itself, as opposed to the operator-level history above. All are from the help centre, checked 10 November 2026.

Security

• Two-factor authentication covers more than login: Stake says it secures "logins, withdrawals, tips, and all transactions involving sending funds". It is set up under Settings, Security with an authenticator app and confirmed by an emailed link.
• Passkeys can replace the password. Stake notes that passkeys "are designed to be used on specific websites, meaning you won't be able to log in to a fake or malicious site".
• The Vault holds balance out of the playable wallet. Access "requires confirmation through various security measures opted into on your account", which Stake lists as password, verified email and 2FA, and funds "can remain there indefinitely".
• Official email addresses are [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. For anything not sent from the @stake.com domain, Stake's instruction is "do not click on any links" and report it to support.
• Lookalike sites. Stake publishes a short list of its official mirror domains and warns that "scammers may create fake copies of Stake.com to steal login details". Our official casino domains page keeps the list.

Gambling controls (Stake Smart)

• Loss limits and wager limits can be set per day, week or month. Setting or lowering one applies immediately; raising one is "subject to a 24-hour cooling-off period".
• Deposit limits work differently for crypto: a deposit above your limit is not rejected but held in a "withholding balance" and released as the daily limit resets. Raising or removing the limit takes 24 hours.
• Break in play locks the account for 1 day, 2 days, 1 week or 1 month, and it reopens automatically.
• Self-exclusion is indefinite only, with "a minimum period of 6 months"; after that, reactivation needs a formal return-to-play review requested by email.
• Account closure is self-service under Responsible Gambling, takes effect immediately and cannot be reversed for 24 hours.

Sources: Stake help centre, 2FA, passkeys, Vault, official emails, gambling limits, deposit limits, break in play, self-exclusion and closing your account. Support and blocking tools for anyone gambling more than they intend are on our responsible gambling page.

VIP thresholds and bet limits on Originals

The VIP ladder has 15 levels, each tied to a lifetime wagering total. Stake counts sports wagers three times over toward progress ("wagering $1 on sports is equivalent to $3"), so bettors climb faster than casino players for the same stake.

Rakeback is the constant across every tier: "3.5% of the house edge back as cash" on casino games, 3.5% of the rake on poker, and on sports 3.5% of a theoretical value "calculated using a default 3% house edge", with voided and cashed-out bets excluded. Stake's own worked example: 1 BTC wagered on a game with a 2% edge returns 0.0007 BTC. On a 1% edge Original, the same arithmetic gives 0.035% of turnover, which you can model in our rakeback calculator. Weekly boosts are issued on Saturdays at 12:30pm GMT through the VIP Telegram channel, and monthly bonuses arrive by email.

High-stakes players should also know the ceilings on Stake Originals. The help centre lists a maximum bet and a maximum profit per bet for each coin, in units of that coin, and a minimum bet of $0.0001:

The profit cap matters more than the bet cap on high-multiplier games. With a 20 BTC maximum profit, a 1,000x Limbo target reaches the cap at a stake of about 0.02 BTC, far below the 100 BTC maximum bet. Supplier games carry their own limits, shown in each game's menu; for most of them Stake puts the minimum bet between $0.10 and $0.20.

Sources: Stake help centre, VIP program, VIP levels and benefits, rakeback, crypto casino betting limits and third-party betting limits, checked 10 November 2026.

What the deposit data says — the latest 30 days

We publish each casino's Tanzanite deposit figure. Stake took in $1.95B in the 30 days to 1 November 2026, from about 3.95 million deposits, -13% on Tanzanite’s previous 30 days, after $2.27B in the 30 days to 2 October 2026. That is #1, and the only casino Tanzanite tracks above the billion-dollar mark. The gap to second place is not close: $1.95B is roughly 4.5 times Roobet’s $436M.

What the figures suggest: a dip of 13% on Tanzanite's previous 30 days, steeper than the -10% for all 41 tracked casinos. Deep liquidity is the practical upside: a platform taking in nearly $2B in 30 days is unlikely to strain to cover a large win.

One honest caution before you read anything into these numbers: deposit volume measures money flowing in — it says nothing about player win rates, payout reliability or safety. A casino can grow while paying slowly, and shrink while paying perfectly. Treat the trend as a signal of momentum and player activity, nothing more.

Source: Tanzanite, tracked deposit volume for the 30 days to 1 Nov 2026 and Tanzanite's own previous-30-day comparison; the 2 Oct 2026 and 26 Oct 2026 rows are previously published figures, from overlapping windows.

Verify it yourself — we only assert what you can check

Most review sites ask for your trust. We would rather hand you the tools:

1. Before you bet, open Stake’s Fairness panel and copy the hashed server seed — the commitment Stake cannot change afterwards.
2. Play, then rotate your seed pair so Stake reveals the unhashed server seed and nonce.
3. Paste all three values into our Stake Seed Checker — it reproduces Stake’s exact published scheme byte-for-byte and recomputes your result in your browser.

Stake is one of only two casinos (with Shuffle) whose scheme we have confirmed byte-for-byte against its published docs. This covers Stake Originals only; third-party slots are RNG-certified, not verifiable. New to the idea? Read what provably fair means.