Stake.com payment methods guide

Depositing and paying in

Funding a Stake account is straightforward if you hold cryptocurrency and patchy if you do not. Coin routes are documented in detail; card and bank routes exist in a handful of countries with published bands; the popular ewallets do not appear at all.

PayPal, Skrill, Neteller, Apple Pay and Google Pay are absent from every Stake page we were able to verify, so assume they are unavailable rather than merely undocumented.

Cryptocurrency

Deposit sizing is barely constrained. The crypto deposit limits article says anything below 0.01 USD in value cannot be handled automatically and needs a support ticket, and that no maximum is applied. Withdrawal floors and fees are fixed per coin and published in full in the withdrawal limits article. Selected rows, minimum first then fee:

• Bitcoin, 0.00002504 and 0.00001571.
• Ether, 0.00100000 and 0.00067447.
• Litecoin, 0.01857329 and 0.00013800.
• Tether and USD Coin, both 2.50000000 and 1.00000000.
• Dogecoin, 5.49925970 and 0.52151198.
• Ripple, 1.00000000 and 0.00010000.
• Tron, 7.82408913 and 0.07336170.
• Shiba Inu, 78,795.08659 and 23,941.65317, a proportion that makes small cashouts in that coin a poor idea.
• Others published include Bitcoin Cash, EOS, BNB, APE, CRO, DAI, LINK, SAND and UNI. The table stops short on SOL, TRUMP and POL, so we do not have exact figures for those three and will not guess them. BUSD is listed for withdrawal only, with no deposits.

Because the fee is flat rather than proportional, it behaves like a percentage charge that shrinks as the amount grows: 1.00 USDT on a 25 USDT withdrawal is 4 percent, and on 500 USDT it is 0.2 percent. Network choice is the other place money goes missing.

The acceptable networks article lists Tether on ERC20, BEP20, Polygon, TRC20 and Solana, USD Coin on ERC20, BEP20, Polygon and Solana, Ether on ERC20 and BEP20, and names routes that must not be used, including Cronos over its own chain and various layer 2 rails.

Buying and converting inside the account

If you have no coin to send, MoonPay and Swapped are named as the on ramp partners in the card purchase article; their own pricing sits outside Stake and is not published there. The in wallet converter deserves a warning of its own.

The Swap Crypto article allows up to two hours per swap and treats each one as a withdrawal followed by a deposit. The practical effect is that the outgoing coin must already have met its wagering obligation, and the incoming coin arrives as a brand new deposit with a fresh 100 percent obligation of its own.

Converting a balance mid session can therefore push a cashout further away rather than nearer.

Cards, bank transfer and local currency

Card deposits are country gated with published bands, per the card deposit article. Canada, CAD 5 up to CAD 3,000, both major schemes. Chile, CLP 5,000 up to CLP 1,000,000, Visa alone.

The United Arab Emirates, AED 20 up to AED 3,000. The euro group of Albania, Andorra, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Montenegro and Slovenia, EUR 5 up to EUR 1,000, with Mastercard unavailable in Albania. Ecuador, USD 5 up to USD 1,000.

Iceland, ISK 500 up to ISK 300,000. Bosnia and Herzegovina, BAM 10 up to BAM 5,000. Card payouts run only to a card that has already funded the account, per the card withdrawal article.

Bank transfer deposits are quoted at up to 24 hours and require proof of payment showing the date, the reference, the recipient details and the amount, per the bank deposit article; no amount limits are published for that route. Indian rupee deposits are also quoted at up to 24 hours in the rupee deposit article.

On currencies, the fullest first party list is indirect: the local currency betting limits article covers CAD, JPY, INR, TRY, IDR, VND, NGN, ARS, CLP, MXN, KES, GHS, KRW, ILS, THB, SAR, AED, MAD, CRC and USD for Ecuador.

Conversion spreads, cashier level exchange rates and any deposit fees at that layer are not published, and we did not measure them. One clause applies to everything above: clause 8.9 of the terms of service reserves a discretionary withdrawal fee on top of the published schedule.