Head to head
Duelbits vs Stake: two Curaçao licences and two sets of Originals
Duelbits and Stake both hold Active Curaçao certificates, granted on 1 November 2024 and 9 June 2025, and both run their own Crash, Dice, Plinko and Mines next to a sportsbook. Stake puts its ID rule in clause 4.8 of its terms; Duelbits prints in its help centre when each kind of rakeback bit expires.
Two Curaçao certificates, granted seven months apart, open this comparison. The certificate portal lists duelbits.com under licence OGL/2024/1507/0838, granted 1 November 2024, and stake.com under OGL/2024/1451/0918, granted 9 June 2025. Both read Active when we searched in late August 2026. Both pair a casino and its own quick games with a sportsbook and a rewards scheme. Nobody on our team has deposited at either, so every line below comes from their own pages and the register, dated.
Duelbits and Stake side by side
Sources: Curaçao certificate portal, searched 26 August 2026 (both) and 31 August 2026 (Stake); Duelbits' front page, captured 26 August 2026, and its help centre and site pages as archived by the Wayback Machine between 18 April 2022 and 3 June 2026; Stake.com's terms and front page, read in August 2026. A dash means the documents we read give no figure.
| What we compared | Duelbits | Stake |
|---|---|---|
| Licence in the register | Liquid Entertainment N.V., company no. 153298; OGL/2024/1507/0838; granted 1 Nov 2024; Active | Medium Rare N.V., company no. 145353; OGL/2024/1451/0918; granted 9 Jun 2025; Active |
| Product mix | casino, sportsbook with esports, rewards club; Casino and Sports tiles on the front page | Casino and Sports on the front page, each with a live player count; one wallet |
| In-house games | Crash, Roulette, Dice Duels, Dice, Plinko, Mines (24 Jan 2024); Tap Trading, marked NEW (26 Aug 2026) | Plinko, Mines, Limbo, Dice, Hilo, Crash |
| Rewards and rakeback | Ace's Rewards in instant, daily, weekly and monthly bits; expiry times printed; instant 10%, others 5% of the house edge in its 2022 interface file | Stake.com: —; Stake.us, a separate site, prints 3.5% of the house edge |
| When ID is asked | — (a KYC guidelines article is filed under Withdrawals; text not archived) | at any time; withdrawals subject to verification (clause 4.8) |
| Withdrawal rule | — | — |
| Welcome offer | — | — (none in the Stake.com terms we read) |
Stake is clearer on ID, with a numbered clause; Duelbits is clearer on rewards, with printed expiry times. Our other pairings sit on the Duelbits comparison hub.
Licence
Duelbits. Searched by domain on 26 August 2026, the portal states that duelbits.com is operated by Liquid Entertainment N.V., company number 153298, under licence OGL/2024/1507/0838, issued under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (P.B. 2024, no. 157), granted 1 November 2024 and Active. The footer captured that day names a Cyprus subsidiary, Herpestidae Services Limited (HE 410029), for management, payment and support services. Keep the numbers apart: 153298 identifies the company; the OGL string is the licence.
Stake. The same portal lists stake.com under Medium Rare N.V., company number 145353, licence OGL/2024/1451/0918, granted 9 June 2025, Active on 26 and again on 31 August 2026.
On this row the two are level.
Casino and in-house games
Duelbits' welcome article, as archived on 24 January 2024, claims over 3,000 games from providers including Evolution Gaming, Pragmatic Play, Play'n Go and Relax Gaming, with live shows such as Monopoly and Crazy Time. It introduces its own games as “three” modes and then names six: Crash, Roulette, Dice Duels, Dice, Plinko and Mines. The front page we captured on 26 August 2026 added Tap Trading, marked NEW, in the sidebar; the game rows had not loaded.
Stake's own row holds Plinko, Mines, Limbo, Dice, Hilo and Crash. Four names are shared: Crash, Dice, Plinko and Mines. Stake adds Limbo and Hilo; Duelbits adds Roulette, Dice Duels and Tap Trading.
On fairness, Duelbits calls itself “a provably fair casino” (January 2024), and its 2022 interface file, archived 18 April 2022, shows a server seed and a public seed beside each Crash and Dice round. For Stake, a Stake.us article dated 13 September 2024 describes the scheme behind Stake Originals: a server seed shown only as a SHA-256 hash until rotation, a client seed the player can change, and a nonce rising by one each round. Seeds let you check a past round; they never predict the next, and the house edge sits under every result. Each Duelbits game is described on Duelbits Originals.
Sportsbook
Stake's front page, captured in August 2026, opens on Casino and Sports side by side, each with a live count of players or bettors, and the sportsbook draws on the same wallet.
Duelbits documents more of its book. Its site description, archived 3 June 2026, promises odds on “50+ sports”, and a blog guide dated 22 May 2026 explains its esports markets: match winner, map handicap, series score, tournament outright and live in-play. The help centre's sportsbook articles, archived 14 August 2025, cover singles and multis, cash-out on a range of sports and markets (not guaranteed at all times), and bets on postponed games. We read no Stake sports rulebook, so markets cannot be matched here.
Rewards and rakeback
This is the row where Duelbits documents more. Its help article, archived 15 May 2025, says Ace's Rewards pays four kinds of prize based on wagering, each on its own clock:
- Instant bits build up for as long as you like and do not expire.
- Daily rakeback expires every day at 00:00 UTC, when the next batch arrives.
- Weekly bits expire every Monday at 00:00 UTC.
- Monthly bits expire on the first of the month at 00:00 UTC.
On Mondays VIP players can also collect extra rakeback from casino and sportsbook, with VIP status following a CRM review (archived 21 January 2025). Rates carry a date. In its 2022 interface file, archived 18 April 2022, Duelbits put instant rakeback at 10% of the house edge on wagers and daily, weekly and monthly bits at 5% each. A New Rakeback System article appeared in its help centre in 2025, and its text was not archived, so those rates may have changed.
We could not read Stake.com's VIP pages, so we hold no Stake.com rate. Stake.us, a separate social casino, publishes 3.5% of the house edge in an article dated 17 October 2025, read 9 September 2026; that figure belongs to Stake.us alone. The Duelbits scheme in full is on Duelbits rakeback and VIP.
ID checks and withdrawals
Stake, clause 4.8, in the terms we read in August 2026: documents can be requested at any time to confirm identity and location; play, payments or withdrawals can be held until Stake is satisfied; withdrawals are subject to verification, and a fresh check can come with any later withdrawal. The same terms give no processing time and no weekly ceiling.
Duelbits leaves less in the archive. Its help centre recommends verifying your email first (15 May 2025). A “KYC Guidelines for Submissions” article sits in the Withdrawals collection (14 August 2025), described as covering submission steps and document requirements; its body was not archived, so what triggers a check stays open. The same collection lists a withdrawal-fee question and a Coin Mixing article, with no archived answers. Duelbits' site description advertises “instant withdrawals” (3 June 2026); that is its own claim, and we found no time, limit or fee figure behind it.
Neither casino has had our money. Our only two real-money tests were at Vave, our advertiser, on 28 August 2026, where no ID was requested up to 5,000 USDT, and at TrustDice in May 2026, where crypto withdrawals arrived in 10 to 15 minutes each until about 5,000 USDT in total brought a check. What Duelbits says about documents is on Duelbits KYC.
Bonuses and promotions
The Stake.com terms we read carry no welcome offer. Duelbits' help centre, archived 21 January 2025, points to weekly casino and sportsbook promotions, one-click giveaways on Discord and Ace's Rewards, with no wagering, maximum bet or expiry printed. A Duelbits blog post dated 4 May 2026 announces daily and weekly leaderboards with $10,000 and $30,000 in prizes.
Who should pick which
Duelbits suits you if you want Roulette, Dice Duels or Tap Trading beside the familiar Crash and Mines, esports markets that the operator itself describes, or rewards whose expiry times are written down.
Stake suits you if you want Limbo and Hilo, or you prefer an ID rule you can read in a numbered clause before you deposit, strict as it is.
Look past both if you want a printed payout window; operators that print one, and the two we tested, are among our crypto casinos like Duelbits.