Two different products that share four letters

Mark one: the company on the permit

Stake.com's permit is a document with a number. The company named on it is Medium Rare N.V., the issuer is the Curaçao Gaming Authority, the number is OGL/2024/1451/0918, and the register entry showed the status Active when it was read for this index.

For Stake.us there is no equivalent line on this site. No operating company has been read, no permit number has been recorded, and no register entry has been opened. A reader who wants a permit number for the second brand will not get one here, and a page that offered one without having opened the document would be inventing it.

Mark two: what the balance is made of

The crypto product's balance is crypto-currency: a reader funds it from a wallet, and the cashier is the point where a deposit becomes a balance and a balance becomes a payout.

The US promotion's balance is not that. It is a promotional unit that the promotion issues and that exists inside the promotion. This page describes the category and goes no further, and it deliberately does not set out how those units are obtained or what can be done with them. Explaining that machinery is what turns an explainer into an instruction, which is not what this page is for.

Mark three: the territorial clause, and the one country inside it

Stake.com publishes its territorial clause at stake.com/licenses. It was read for this index on 26 August 2026 from an archived capture, and it runs to a single country: the United States. That paragraph is the hinge of this whole comparison. The crypto product's own terms exclude the one market where the American brand operates.

That figure is also the shortest published exclusion list in a library of a hundred operators, of which 38 publish such a list. It is short because the company writing it has arranged its business around a single large refusal rather than a long roll of small ones. The restricted-countries page sets that one-line clause against what the other 37 lists print.

The paragraph number inside that clause was not recorded in this reading. The address was, and it travels with the count wherever the count goes.

Mark four: which body of law each answers to

An offshore gaming permit and an American promotion answer to different authorities, and they are not different grades of the same thing.

Stake.com's permit is issued in Curaçao and its conditions are the regulator's conditions. Stake.us runs inside the United States, where promotions of that kind sit under a body of law about contests and promotions that varies by state — a subject with different authors, different documents and different regulators from the ones this site reads.

This index reads gaming terms and gaming registers. It has not opened a single American promotional-contest filing, so it takes no position on how that second body of law applies to anybody. How we read sets out exactly which document types get opened and in what order, and promotional filings are not among them.

Mark five: what a payout refers to

On the crypto side there is a verification clause with a number. Stake.com's is 4.8: the company may request identity documents at any time to determine who and where a customer is, and may hold service, payment or a withdrawal until it is satisfied. Withdrawals require verification, and further checks may be demanded on any one of them.

On the US side this reading holds nothing at all — no verification clause, no payout wording, no timing. A reader who wants that answer has one place to get it, and it is that brand's own terms rather than this page or any page that summarises it second-hand.

Mark six: what the library behind this site actually contains

The comparison work on this site rests on a hundred operators. Thirty-eight of them publish a territorial list, all 38 were read on 26 August 2026, and 62 keep a list this reading has not opened. Every one of the hundred is a crypto or offshore gaming brand.

Zero sweepstakes promotions are in that library. So every count on this site — the 32 published lists that print the United States, the 29 that print the United Kingdom, the seven countries no list prints at all — is a statement about crypto operators and is silent about the American product. Running one of those figures across to Stake.us would be a category error, and it is the error this page exists to prevent.

Mark seven: whether one company stands behind both

The commonest question in this cluster is whether the two brands are the same business. This site names Medium Rare N.V. on the Stake.com permit and names nobody on the other side, because nobody has been read there.

That is not a coy answer, it is the whole of the evidence held here. Corporate ownership is traced through documents of a different kind again — registry filings, sponsorship announcements, the fine print in a footer — and the ownership page records which of those were opened and which stayed shut. Until a document says it, this page will not.

If it was Stake.us you came for

Then this site cannot help you, and the reason is worth a sentence rather than a redirect.

Everything here is built from crypto operators' terms of service: their territorial clauses, their verification clauses, their permit numbers. That machinery produces a real answer for someone comparing crypto casinos country by country, and it produces nothing whatsoever for someone looking at an American promotion. A site that stretched to cover both would be guessing on one side of the fork, and the guess would be invisible to the reader receiving it.

There is no shortlist waiting further down this page, and there is none on any other page here either. The United States page says the same thing at length and ends without a recommendation, which is deliberate. So does the country page for the United States, which carries the count rather than a list of names.

For the other side of the fork, the crypto side, the reading runs country by country: the operator table holds the compared rows, and pages such as Canada show what a country with a very different count looks like.