Rainbet vs Stake: licence, company, KYC and restricted countries from the records
Rainbet vs Stake: what differs?
Stake’s Curacao Gaming Authority licence OGL/2024/1451/0918 is on the register, status Assessment in progress; Rainbet’s Anjouan Gaming Authority licence could not be matched in the register (not verified). Rainbet names Rain Group Ltd as its company, Stake names Medium Rare N.V. Both leave KYC at the operator’s discretion. No winner is declared.
Documents last checked Reviewed by CryptoGuardz Register Desk, editorial desk
Disclosure: CryptoGuardz has no commercial relationship with Rainbet or Stake and earns nothing if you open an account at either. Rainbet is a register check, a light entry; Stake is a full register entry. Both are read from documents the company publishes and the register that should list it, dated when read. Corrections go to the corrections page.
Rainbet and Stake side by side
| Field | Rainbet | Stake |
|---|---|---|
| What the record is | Register check: a light entry, no scoreLast reviewed | Full register entryLast reviewed |
| Licence found in the register | Not verifiedLicence claimed in the terms: Anjouan Gaming Authority, no number printed. The Anjouan licence register table rendered with headers only and no rows in a plain fetch, and the terms print no licence number, so Rain Group Ltd could not be matched against the regulator's list.Register, retrieved | Found: OGL/2024/1451/0918Curacao Gaming Authority register, status Assessment in progress, term ends 2026-06-09. The authority's own certificate portal shows the same licence as Active. The two official artefacts disagree; both are cited on this page.Register, retrieved |
| Company of record | Rain Group LtdAnjouan, Comorosrainbet.com, retrieved | Medium Rare N.V.Curacao, company number 145353gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com, retrieved |
| KYC clause | At the operator’s discretionVerbatim: “Rainbet.com reserves the right, at any time, to ask for any KYC documentation it deems necessary”rainbet.com, retrieved | At the operator’s discretionRecord summary: The terms reserve the right to request KYC documentation at any time. The anti-money-laundering policy is more specific: an account is suspended until diligence is completed once it reaches a withdrawal threshold dependent on the account's risk characterisation. That threshold is not published.stake.com, retrieved |
| Restricted countries | 9 entries as printedNames United States, United Kingdom, Australia; does not name Canada.rainbet.com, retrieved | Forty-four jurisdictionsForty-four jurisdictions including Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Ontario, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.stake.com, retrieved |
| Incidents and regulator actions | 0None recorded in the check; not proof of none. | 2FBI press release on the September 2023 theftGambling Commission notice on TGP EuropeRecord note: Not yet measured. Two matters are a matter of public record and are noted here with sources rather than characterised: the FBI attributed the theft of 41 million dollars in virtual currency from Stake.com on or about 4 September 2023 to the Lazarus Group, and the operator ceased UK operations in February 2025 following a Gambling Commission investigation into a social media advertisement. |
| Documented contradictions | Not measuredA register check does not test the terms against the operator’s other pages. | 5Claims contradicted by the terms or a register, each sourced on the entry. |
| Points not verified | 3 | 6 |
What differs, and who it matters to
On the licence, Rainbet: not verified; Stake: found: OGL/2024/1451/0918. That matters to anyone who may need a regulator to hear a complaint, and only if the licence covers the company they contract with.
Rainbet contracts through Rain Group Ltd (Anjouan, Comoros) and Stake through Medium Rare N.V. (Curacao, company number 145353), which decides where a claim would have to be brought.
Both records class KYC as at the operator’s discretion: neither set of documents read publishes a fixed point at which identity checks start, so a withdrawal can be held for documents at any size.
The restricted lists differ in length (Rainbet: 9 entries as printed; Stake: forty-four jurisdictions). A country missing from a list is not permission, and the full lists are on each record.
The records hold 0 public-record matters for Rainbet and 2 for Stake: a count of documents found, not a measure of safety.
No account was funded and no withdrawal was run at either, so none of this speaks to how the platforms pay in practice. It is what the documents bind each company to, and what the registers say about the licence each claims.