How We Score Crypto Casinos
Every operator in the index is scored 0–10 on six weighted criteria; the published score is the weighted mean, rounded to one decimal, re-verified monthly. The weights are fixed and the same for every operator. Commission rates, link placement and whether an operator links back have no effect on any score.
The six criteria and their weights
| Criterion | Weight | What earns 10 | What earns 5 | What earns 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Withdrawal speed & reliability | 25% | Withdrawals processed instantly or within minutes once requested, with no routine holds and clear conditions. | Withdrawals take hours as a matter of policy, or routine manual review delays a meaningful share of requests. | Withdrawals are regularly delayed for days, refused on undisclosed grounds, or the operator publishes no processing terms. |
| Fees & limits | 20% | No deposit fees, withdrawal fees at or near network cost, low minimums, and all of it published. | Fees are moderate or vary without a published schedule; minimums are high on some coins. | Deposit fees, high fixed withdrawal fees, or fees that are not disclosed before a withdrawal. |
| Licence & operator transparency | 20% | A named operating company, a licence that can be looked up in the issuing register, a complaints route, and terms in one consistent version. | A licence is claimed but the register entry does not match the operating company or domain, or terms conflict between pages. | No gambling licence that can be verified, or a company registration presented as one. |
| Product & usability | 15% | Fast, uncluttered interface; cashier one step from any page; balances shown in coin and fiat; mobile works without an app; casino and sportsbook share one wallet. | Functional but cluttered, slow, or inconsistent between desktop and mobile. | Core flows (deposit, bet, withdraw) are hard to find or unreliable. |
| Promotions & rewards | 10% | Recurring, clearly-termed promotions a regular player can actually use: races, rakeback or level-ups, odds boosts, challenges; welcome offer terms stated in full. | A welcome offer and little else, or recurring promotions with unclear terms. | Promotions whose terms conflict or cannot be found before opting in. |
| Scale, track record & player sentiment | 10% | Years of continuous operation, a large active player base, and a public record where complaints do not cluster around one issue. | Under three years of operation, or a public record with a clear recurring complaint. | Repeated ownership changes without disclosure, or a record dominated by one kind of complaint. |
Scores between the anchors are set in half-point steps with a one-line reason that is published on every review. A Curaçao licence caps the licence criterion at 9.5 and an Anjouan licence at 8.5, because neither regime offers the independent adjudication or statutory fund protection of a UK or Malta licence; that cap applies identically to every operator.
Where the data comes from
- Operator terms and cashier: fees, minimums, withdrawal rules, bonus terms, restricted territories. Quoted as operator-stated.
- Licence registers: operating company and licence number are looked up in the issuing authority's register, not copied from a footer. Where no number is published, the table says so.
- Dated third-party tests: where a withdrawal time comes from a published test rather than the operator, the row names the source and the test period.
- Public record: review-platform aggregates are quoted only with the sample size and date; we look for clusters of complaints, not individual bad days.
- Never: an estimate standing in for a missing figure. A blank is published as "not disclosed".
How often we re-verify
Fees, minimums, withdrawal times and licences are checked monthly; this edition was verified on 23 October 2026 and the Fee & Payout Index was refreshed on 23 October 2026. A licence or ownership change triggers an immediate re-check. The year in page titles rolls forward each January with a full re-verification, not a find-and-replace.
Every score change is recorded in the changelog with the date, the old value and the new value.
What moves a score down
- A licence that cannot be found in the issuing register, or a company registration presented as a gambling licence.
- Fees or minimums that are not disclosed before a withdrawal.
- Promotion terms that exist in more than one conflicting version.
- A restricted-territories list that is missing or unreachable from the terms.
- A public record dominated by one kind of complaint — withdrawals refused on undisclosed bonus rules, for example.
- Refusing to supply a licence number or dispute route when asked in writing.
What does not affect a score
- Payment of any kind: no operator pays this site, and none is asked to.
- Whether an operator links to this site, advertises with it, or asks for a change.
- The size of an operator's marketing or the number of logos in its lobby.
- Being small, new, or crypto-only — those affect the scale criterion only through the published anchors.
A worked example
Shuffle's score of 9.8 is 10 × 0.25 + 10 × 0.20 + 9.5 × 0.20 + 10 × 0.15 + 10 × 0.10 + 8.5 × 0.10 = 9.75, rounded half-up to 9.8. The 9.5 is the Curaçao cap; the 8.5 is a 2023 launch date on the scale criterion. Stake's 9.6 is 9.5 on five criteria and 10 on scale (since 2017). BC.Game's 9.1 is 9.0 on withdrawals, fees and product, 8.5 on licence (Anjouan cap), and 10 on promotions and scale. Every review carries the same arithmetic in its breakdown table.
Frequently asked questions
How is the CryptoWagerIndex score calculated?
Six criteria scored 0–10 — withdrawals (25%), fees (20%), licence and transparency (20%), product (15%), promotions (10%), scale and track record (10%) — combined as a weighted mean and rounded half-up to one decimal. Each criterion score carries a published one-line reason.
Do operators pay to be ranked?
No. No operator pays this site for placement, links, reviews or scores, and the site has received no payment or consideration of any kind from any operator it ranks. Links to operators are plain links, not affiliate links.
Why does no Curaçao casino score 10 on licensing?
Because a Curaçao licence, even under the reformed 2024 framework, does not provide independent binding adjudication or statutory player-fund protection. The cap (9.5 Curaçao, 8.5 Anjouan) is applied identically to every operator.
How often are scores updated?
Facts are re-verified monthly (last: 23 October 2026). A score changes only when a fact changes, and each change is logged with its date.