How to Verify a Crypto Casino Licence

Any website can paste a regulator logo into its footer. A static image proves nothing. Even a clickable seal that opens a real certificate can be wrong: our audit found that regulator certificates and regulator registers are not always kept in sync. The register is the document the regulator publishes as its official record, so when the two disagree, the register takes priority.

A licence can also belong to a different company, cover different domains, or have expired months ago while the site keeps displaying it. Checking takes about ten minutes, and it is worth doing before you deposit, not after a withdrawal is refused.

This is the order we follow for every casino in our licence tracker.

1. 1Read the footer. Write down the operating company's legal name, its registration number and address, the licence number, and the name of the regulator. If the footer names a company but no licence, or a licence number but no company, treat that as a warning sign.
2. 2Click the seal. A working seal opens a certificate on the regulator's own domain and carries a unique identifier in the link (often a seal_id parameter). Check that the certificate names the same company, the same licence number and the domain you are actually on, and note the status it shows.
3. 3Check the official register. Search the register for the company name and licence number. Confirm the licence status, the issue and expiry dates, and whether the domain is listed. If the register and the certificate disagree, rely on the register.
4. 4Compare everything. Company name, licence number, domain and dates should match across footer, certificate and register. Small spelling differences in a company name can be harmless, but a different company entirely is a mismatch.

Curaçao licences issued under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK), which took effect on 24 December 2024, use numbers in the format OGL/2024/xxxx/xxxx. A genuine Curaçao seal opens a certificate at cert.cga.cw (some older seals still point to cert.gcb.cw). The Curaçao Gaming Authority also publishes its licence register as a downloadable PDF, updated periodically, and runs a licence portal at portal.gamingcontrolcuracao.org.

In our audit we compared register editions dated 26 June, 15 July, 22 July, 27 August, 3 September, 10 September and 14 September 2026. In the register, look at two things: the expiry date and the status column. 'Indefinite' means no fixed end date is listed. 'Assessment in progress' against a past expiry date means the term has ended and a renewal is under review; the licence has not been confirmed as renewed. 'Expired' means exactly that.

• Cloudbet, BetFury, Duelbits and Thunderpick: each had a CGA certificate reading 'Active', while the register showed the licence term had ended and the renewal as 'Assessment in progress'. Thunderpick's term, for example, ended on 4 June 2026 and BetFury's on 31 July 2026.
• Rollbit: the live footer claimed licence OGL/2024/1260/0494. The certificate opened from that same footer read 'Revoked'. The register showed 'Assessment in progress' in editions up to 3 September 2026 and 'Expired' in the 10 September 2026 edition.
• Stake: licence OGL/2024/1451/0918 had a term ending 9 June 2026 and was listed as 'Assessment in progress'. We found no CGA seal in the live footer; the number came from an archived copy of the terms.

Anjouan licences use numbers such as ALSI-202410011-FI1. Seals usually open a page on verification.anjouangamingboard.org, and the public register is at anjouangaming.com/license-register, which held 1,526 entries when we checked.

Two quirks matter. First, the register shows 'valid' even for licences whose expiry date has passed, so the status word is meaningless: compare the expiry date with today's date. Second, the seal validator shows INVALID if you open it without the seal_id in the link, so a broken-looking result may simply be a missing parameter. Always click through from the casino's own footer.

• Chips.gg: the seal on the site showed VALID. The register entry for licence ALSI-192407025-FI2 listed an expiry date of 17 July 2026, so on the day of our check the licence had expired.
• 1xBit: the footer printed the licence number with a typo compared with the register, and the register expiry date was 15 September 2026. Small inconsistencies like this are worth noting even when a licence exists.

The Tobique Gaming Commission, based in the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada, publishes its licence holders at thetgc.ca/license-holders. The list does not show licence numbers, so you can only match on company name, domain and expiry date. Check the status of the specific domain, not just the company.

Example: TG.Casino's operating company appeared in the Tobique list, but the domain was marked PENDING. By the regulator's own wording, a pending domain should not be accepting players, yet the site was operating.

Verification tells you whether a licence exists and is in force. It does not tell you how strong that licence is. A current Anjouan licence and a current Malta licence are both 'verified', but they offer very different levels of oversight and dispute resolution. Our separate guides on Curaçao and Anjouan explain the difference.

If you cannot find the operator in any register, or the site shows a company registration (for example, a Costa Rica company number) instead of a gambling licence, treat the casino as unlicensed. In our audit, Betpanda and Cryptorino both showed the same Costa Rica company, Star Bright Media S.R.L., and neither appeared in the Anjouan or Tobique registers.

• All sources agree, term in force: licence verified.
• Certificate active, register expired or 'Assessment in progress': renewal pending, not confirmed.
• Certificate 'Revoked' or register 'Expired': no current licence.
• Different company or domain from what the site claims: mismatch.
• Nothing in any register: no licence found.

Licence status changes. Rollbit's register entry changed between 3 and 10 September 2026. Several licences in our dataset expire within weeks of our check. If you plan to hold a significant balance on a site, repeat the check periodically, and keep screenshots with dates.

A licence check is one part of assessing a casino, not a reason to gamble. Online gambling is for adults 18+ (or the legal age where you live). Offshore licences are not connected to national self-exclusion schemes such as GamStop in the UK or CRUKS in the Netherlands, so if you have excluded yourself, an offshore site will not block you. Free support is available from BeGambleAware, GamCare and Gambling Therapy.