Stake reviewed against our criteria

Stake operates under a Curacao Gaming Authority licence, OGL/2024/1451/0918, held by Medium Rare N.V., and covers 30 sports including football, basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey and esports. Those two figures — the licence reference and the sports count — are the verifiable anchors for this page. Everything below stays inside them.

The licence number, read as a document

The licence is issued by the Curacao Gaming Authority under reference OGL/2024/1451/0918, and the licence holder is Medium Rare N.V. For a reader deciding where to place money, the useful part is not the word "licensed" but the specific string: a reference number can be checked against the regulator, and a named legal entity can be checked against a corporate register. Both are concrete, both are falsifiable. A claim that cannot be traced to either is not a claim worth pricing.

Curacao is a jurisdiction with a defined supervisory framework rather than a self-declared badge. That does not tell you anything about odds quality, payout speed or the fairness of a given market — it tells you which authority has jurisdiction if something goes wrong. Treat it as one input, not a verdict.

If a point above raised a question, Dexsport vs Stake and Dexsport may answer it.

Thirty sports, and what a count actually measures

Stake lists 30 sports. The named ones are football, basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey and esports. The remaining slots are not enumerated in the source, so the honest reading is: 30 is the ceiling of the catalogue, and the six named disciplines are the ones confirmed by name.

Breadth is easy to over-read. Thirty sports means thirty sets of markets, each with its own margin structure, its own liquidity profile and its own settlement rules. A reader comparing two operators should not compare the number of sports; they should compare the margin on the specific market they intend to use. A catalogue of 30 with a thin market in your sport is worth less than a catalogue of 10 with a deep one. The count is a starting filter, not a ranking.

Withdrawal timing and the verification step that precedes it

Withdrawals are processed in 0–2 days after approval. The phrase "after approval" carries the weight here: the clock starts when the request clears, not when it is submitted. Level 2 verification is mandatory before any withdrawal, which means the approval step is gated by identity checks that the user completes, not by the operator's payment queue alone.

The practical consequence for anyone modelling cash flow: the 0–2 day window is the last segment of the timeline, not the whole of it. Time spent completing level 2 verification sits in front of it. For a reader who plans to move funds on a specific date, the verification step is the one to finish first, because it is the one under their own control.

Twenty-one coins, and why the count is not the point

Stake supports 21 coins. The number matters less than the pairing: a multi-coin operator has to convert between the coin you deposit and the coin you withdraw, and conversion is where cost and timing appear. Two users on the same platform can face different effective outcomes purely because they chose different assets at each end.

The table below collects the confirmed figures in one place. Nothing in it is derived; each row is a single fact from the source.

What to check before committing a deposit

The figures above define the shape of the account, not its economics. Margin, odds and settlement speed on a given market are not in the source, and no number here should be read as a stand-in for them. The work a reader has to do is separate: take the licence reference and confirm it, take the withdrawal window and add the verification time in front of it, take the coin count and check whether your own asset is inside it.

Three checks, each against a named value rather than a general impression. That is the whole of what the confirmed data supports — and for a decision about money, knowing where the data stops is as useful as the data itself.

Before you ask

Is Stake licensed by the Dutch gambling regulator, the Kansspelautoriteit?

No. Stake operates under a Curacao Gaming Authority licence, OGL/2024/1451/0918, held by Medium Rare N.V. The Dutch regulator is the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), and a Curacao licence does not mean the operator is approved by the Ksa.

Does registering with Cruks block my access to Stake?

No. Cruks is the Dutch national self-exclusion register and blocks access to licensed Dutch operators only. Stake is not licensed by the Kansspelautoriteit, so Cruks does not apply to it.

Which sports can I bet on at Stake?

Stake lists 30 sports in total, with football, basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey and esports confirmed by name. The remaining sports are not enumerated in the source.

Is there a KYC check before my first withdrawal at Stake?

Yes. Level 2 verification is mandatory before any withdrawal. The withdrawal time of 0–2 days starts only after the request is approved, and approval is gated by the identity checks you complete.

What is the minimum legal age to use Stake from the Netherlands?

The minimum legal age for gambling in the Netherlands is 18. This is set by the Kansspelautoriteit and applies regardless of where the operator is licensed.