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Licences and recourse

How to check a crypto casino before you trust it with money

No operator on this page is licensed in New Zealand, because no such licence exists yet. What does exist is a public register for each jurisdiction they do use, and only 5 of the 10 publish a number to search it with. A number that fails to resolve is the most useful red flag you have.

By The Crypto Casino NZ desk · last checked 29 September 2026 · how we rank

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Sorted by licence status and by what each operator’s terms say about verification. The order is not for sale — see the methodology page. Every Play button opens the same place: the casino this site is paid to feature, whichever row the button sits in.
Casino Licence Coins ActionGo
Our pick Vave Live since 2022 · Latcas B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority 6 Go to the casino site
Cloudbet Live since 2013 · Halcyon Super Holdings B.V.
Curaçao 30 PlayCloudbet notes
DuckDice Licence register only · Zentari Limitada
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 10 Play
Rainbet Licence register only · RBGAMING N.V.
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 9 Play
Wild Fortune Licence register only · Metlait SRL
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 10 Play
Windice Licence register only · Windice Group Limited
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 7 Play
Shuffle.com Live since 2023
Curaçao 20 PlayShuffle.com notes
Rakebit Live since 2024 · Nile King Media Ltd
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 15 Play
Metaspins Licence register only · Metaspins N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found 8 Play
Wild.io Live since 2022 · Nonce Gaming B.V.
Curaçao 12 PlayWild.io notes
Bitcasino.io Licence register only · Moon Technologies B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Sportsbet.io Licence register only · MBet Solutions N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Playbet.io Licence register only · Bitx Operations N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found 3 Play
CryptoLeo Licence register only · Uno Digital Media B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found 7 Play
Oshi Casino Live since 2015 · Novatrix SRL
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 10 Play
Rocketpot Live since 2018 · Danneskjold Ventures B.V.
Curacao — no licence found 13 Play
Bitsler Live since 2015 · Oyine N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Stake Licence register only · Medium Rare N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
CoinCasino Licence register only · Igloo Ventures SRL
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found — Play
Instant Casino Licence register only · Axenora Strategic Services N.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Wolf.bet Licence register only · Cipher Games Ltd
Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros — no licence found 13 Play
JacksClub Licence register only · Spades Limitada
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found — Play
BitStarz Licence register only · Gareton B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Nine Casino Licence register only · Uno Digital Media B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Mirax Licence register only · Scores55 Tech B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found — Play
Coins.Game Licence register only · Royal Way Limited
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found — Play
Bitkingz Licence register only · Novatrix SRL
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found — Play
CryptoGames Licence register only · MuchGaming B.V.
Curaçao Gaming Authority — no licence found 15 Play
Primedice Licence register only · Antillephone
Government of Curaçao — no licence found — Play
Bitdreams Licence register only · Hollycorn N.V.
Antillephone N.V. — no licence found 5 Play
CoinPoker Live since 2018 · PRECISE INTERACTIVE INC
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 5 Play
LTC Casino Licence register only
Curaçao eGaming — no licence found 10 Play
Bspin Live since 2018 · Pixel Gaming Limited
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found 3 Play
Fairspin Licence register only · Sorta Group Limitada
Anjouan Gaming Board — no licence found — Play
TrustDice Live since 2018 · Satoshi Gaming Group N.V.
Curaçao 20 PlayTrustDice notes
BetFury Live since 2019 · Universe B Games N.V.
Curaçao 40 PlayBetFury notes
Jackbit Live since 2022 · Ryker B.V.
Curaçao 18 PlayJackbit notes
BC.Game Live since 2017 · Twocent Technology Limited
Anjouan — no number published 150 PlayBC.Game notes
Mega Dice Live since 2023
Curaçao — unconfirmed 15 PlayMega Dice notes
Betpanda.io Live since 2023 · Star Bright Media S.R.L.
Costa Rica — no licence found 13 PlayBetpanda.io notes

The three jurisdictions you will see

Curaçao. The one most crypto casinos use. The island replaced its old master-and-sub system with direct authorisation by the Curaçao Gaming Authority, and the practical consequence for you is that a modern permit reads OGL/2024/1234/0567 and can be searched. A site displaying only a logo, or a number in the old sub-licensed format, is either running on legacy paperwork or hoping you will not check. The register is at cert.cga.cw — search the domain, not the company name, because the company behind a brand is rarely the name on the site.

Anjouan. A jurisdiction in the Comoros. Licences are real and cheap, and the supervision behind them is thinner than Curaçao’s. Not a reason to walk away on its own, but it is a reason to weigh the other columns harder.

Costa Rica. Not gambling paperwork at all. Costa Rica issues a company registration and regulates gambling nowhere; an operator “licensed in Costa Rica” is an operator with a company and no gaming regulator. That is why it shows red in the table above rather than amber. One operator on this list is in that position, and its page says so plainly. Each licence type carries its colour and its reason in the licence colours for New Zealand crypto casinos.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority licence register search page
Search by domain rather than by brand name. The operating company behind a casino is rarely the name printed on the site.

The five-minute check, in order

Do this for any site, including ones not on this page:

  1. Find the number in the footer. Not the seal — the number. A clickable seal that does not lead to a register entry is a picture.
  2. Search the register for the domain. Domain, not brand. Brands move between operating companies and the register follows the company.
  3. Check that the domain in the register is the one you are on. casino.com and casino-nz.com are different entries, and the second may not exist.
  4. Read the restricted countries clause in the terms. If New Zealand is listed, stop — nothing else matters, because a win from a restricted country is void under those same terms. Search the page for “New Zealand” and also for “NZ”: they are frequently listed separately, and occasionally only one of them appears.
  5. Read the withdrawal and verification clauses. Specifically: what triggers verification, what the caps are, and whether the operator reserves the right to void winnings. Some of these clauses are extremely broad.

What recourse actually exists

Be clear-eyed about this, because it is the part affiliate sites skip.

If an offshore operator refuses to pay you, the Department of Internal Affairs cannot help. It regulates gambling that is organised in New Zealand, and these operators are not. There is no New Zealand ombudsman for this, no disputes tribunal path that reaches a company in Curaçao, and no chargeback — a crypto transaction is final by design, which is the same property that made the deposit convenient.

What you have instead:

  • The licensing authority’s complaints process. Curaçao’s CGA does accept complaints against its licensees and it is not decorative, but it is slow and its leverage is the operator’s licence, not your balance.
  • Independent mediation services such as eCOGRA or ADR bodies, where the operator has signed up to one. Most crypto casinos have not.
  • Public pressure. Casino forums and the operator’s own social channels. Undignified, and empirically the fastest route for a disputed balance under a few thousand dollars.

The realistic conclusion is that the register column is about something other than winning a dispute later. It is about lowering the odds of having one, by playing at an operator that has something to lose.

Safety as a search, and safety as a document

The word people type is “safest”, and it is worth separating from what a register can show. A register tells you the permit exists and who holds it, and says nothing about whether the operator pays. The safest online casino page runs three tests across all ten and reports what fails, including the test none of them passes. What a licence covers, and the four things it does not, follow here.

What a licence does not protect you from

  • Your own account being closed for a terms breach. Multiple accounts, a VPN, an address that is not yours. All void the balance at every operator here, licensed or not.
  • Bonus terms. Confiscation of bonus winnings for breaching a maximum-bet rule is legal and enforceable, and it is the most common “they stole my money” story that turns out to be neither theft nor a mistake.
  • The operator’s discretion on verification. Covered on the ID checks page.
  • Volatility. Nothing about a licence stops the coin your balance is held in from falling twenty percent overnight. The NZD page deals with that.

None of those four is removed by a licence number, which is exactly why they are listed next to it. A register entry tells you who the operator is and where a complaint would be filed. It does not tell you the complaint will be answered, and on this side of the world it does not tell you it will be answered inside a working week.

Every register search on this page was run by one person on a stated date, which is the kind of claim a reader is entitled to weigh: who does the reading, and how the site is paid for is set out separately.

Back to the comparison table, or read how these four columns are weighted.

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