The US-legal sweepstakes version of Stake. Same product DNA, different currency, no real-money play.
Last tested: May 22, 2026 by Marta Fischer. Next review: August 22, 2026.
What the Stake.us site looks like on a 14-inch laptop and on a 6-inch phone. Tested on Chrome and Safari, both viewports.
$55 Stake Cash plus 260K Gold Coins on first purchase. Sweepstakes, not deposit match.
55 dollars in Stake Cash and 260,000 Gold Coins on first purchase. Stake.us is a sweepstakes social casino, not a real-money operator, so the welcome bonus is a Gold Coin pack with a Stake Cash kicker rather than a deposit match. Gold Coins are play-money. Stake Cash is the redeemable currency, exchangeable 1:1 for USD via crypto or ACH once the playthrough condition is met. The first-purchase pack costs 4.99 dollars. Subsequent Gold Coin packs run 4.99 to 199.99, each with a bundled Stake Cash bonus. Daily login bonuses, social-media follows, and mail-in requests are the no-purchase entry routes that keep the sweepstakes legal in 45 US states. They are real, they work, and they are slow. Most active players buy packs. Enter promo code NEWBONUS at registration to unlock the first-purchase Stake Cash bonus. Without the code, the headline pack is materially smaller.
No sportsbook. US sweepstakes regulation does not support sports wagering.
No sportsbook. Stake.us is a casino-only product. The sister site Stake.com runs a full sportsbook, but US sweepstakes regulation does not accommodate sports wagering under the sweepstakes model, and Stake.us has not tried to build one. If you want sports, the answer in the US is a state-licensed real-money book or an offshore site, both of which sit outside the Stake.us product entirely. The absence of a sportsbook is a deliberate scope choice rather than a missing feature. The Stake.us product is designed around the casino, the Stake Originals lineup, and the daily login economy. Sport bettors should look elsewhere.
1,000+ titles, same Stake Originals, recent-release pipeline within weeks of .com.
1,000-plus titles, sourced from Hacksaw Gaming, Pragmatic Play, Evolution, Relax Gaming, and Nolimit City. The Stake Originals are present in their Stake.us versions: Plinko, Crash, Mines, Dice, Limbo, and the smaller titles run on the same provably fair engine as the .com site, with the only difference being that wagers are denominated in Stake Cash and Gold Coins rather than crypto. Slot selection skews to recent releases, with the headline Hacksaw, Nolimit City, and Pragmatic catalogues kept current within weeks of the .com release schedule. Live dealer is Evolution-powered, with sweepstakes-compatible variants of blackjack, roulette, and the game-show titles. RTPs match the .com versions on the titles where the provider permits identical pay tables. The catalogue is smaller than Stake.com by an order of magnitude, but it is well-curated and the recent-release pipeline is fast. For US players who cannot legally play at Stake.com, this is the closest equivalent product available.
Card and crypto purchase, ACH or crypto redemption. Same-day for verified accounts.
Gold Coin packs are purchased via card (Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay) or crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT on ERC-20 and TRC-20, USDC, LTC, BCH, DOGE, TRX). Card purchases settle instantly. Crypto purchases settle on first confirmation, typically minutes. Minimum pack is 4.99 dollars. Stake Cash redemption is the path to USD. Redemption is available via the same crypto rails used for purchase, and via ACH bank transfer for verified accounts. Minimum redemption is 25 dollars in Stake Cash, with a 1:1 conversion to USD net of any chain fees on the crypto path. Verified accounts in our testing redeemed within the same business day; first redemption triggers a manual KYC review that ran roughly 24 hours. There is no withdrawal fee on the Stake.us side. USDT TRC-20 is the fee-optimal redemption route for amounts above 100 dollars. ACH is the right choice for users who want the funds in a US bank without touching a crypto exchange.
Sweepstakes social casino model. Legal in 45 US states.
Stake.us is not a licensed gambling operator. It operates under the US sweepstakes model, the same legal framework that supports Chumba Casino, LuckyLand Slots, and a half-dozen smaller sites. Sweepstakes operation is legal in 45 US states under federal and state promotions law. The site is excluded in Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Michigan, Kentucky, and New York, where state-level sweepstakes restrictions or competing tribal compacts make the model unworkable. The operating entity is Sweepsteaks Limited, a separate legal entity from Stake Group's offshore real-money operations. The technical and brand operation is shared, but the legal exposure of Stake.com does not flow through to Stake.us. Player funds sit in segregated US accounts subject to state-by-state sweepstakes compliance audits. Our standard T&Cs note excludes the USA from real-money gambling promotion, which does not apply here because Stake.us is not real-money gambling. We do not promote Stake.com to US users. We do promote Stake.us, because it is the legal alternative and the product is genuinely good.
Best PWA in our test set. Installs full-screen on iOS and Android.
No native iOS or Android app; the same App Store and Play Store policies that block Stake.com block sweepstakes casino apps. The Stake.us mobile web build is a PWA-grade product that installs to the home screen on both platforms and runs full-screen with its own app icon. Frame rate on slot animations matches the desktop. The Stake Originals run identically across web and mobile. Push notifications are not available, which is the persistent gap in the mobile web model. Daily login bonus reminders, redemption status updates, and pack-purchase confirmations arrive by email rather than push. For users who treat the daily login as a habit, the absence of push is mostly a non-issue; for users who want event reminders or promotion alerts, the gap is real. The mobile build is the best PWA implementation in our test set, in part because the Stake.com mobile team has been iterating on the same code base for longer than any competitor. New users will find it indistinguishable from a native app within five minutes of use.
24/7 chat, 90-second median. Knowledgeable on sweepstakes mechanics and redemption.
24/7 live chat and email. Median first-response in our testing was around 90 seconds on chat and 12 to 18 hours on email, matching the Stake.com numbers within rounding. Agents are knowledgeable on the sweepstakes mechanics, the Stake Cash redemption flow, and the state-by-state availability rules, all of which are the most common support questions on a US sweepstakes site. Account verification is handled inside the chat session for routine cases; complex KYC issues route to a dedicated email queue that resolved in 24 to 48 hours during our testing. No phone support. No public dispute tracker, but the sweepstakes regulatory framework provides a clearer escalation path than the offshore Curacao framework that governs Stake.com. For a US player used to the support standards of regulated US sportsbooks like DraftKings and FanDuel, Stake.us support is comparable or better on speed and roughly equivalent on agent competence.
The legal US-facing Stake. 8.6 out of 10. The 0.7 gap is the missing sportsbook.
Stake.us is the legal US-facing version of the Stake product, built on the same technical platform, running the same Stake Originals, and offering the same payment and redemption rails. It is a casino-only product with no sportsbook, no real-money gambling licence, and a sweepstakes legal model that limits availability to 45 US states. For US users who want to play Plinko, Crash, and the broader Stake Originals lineup legally, this is the answer. For US users who want a real-money sportsbook, this is not the answer and never will be; look at the state-licensed books like DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, or a regulated offshore equivalent. We rank it 8.6 out of 10. The 0.7-point gap to Stake.com is the absence of a sportsbook and the smaller casino catalogue. Everything else matches the .com product. If you are in one of the 45 supported states, Stake.us is the cleanest sweepstakes casino in the US market. Use promo code NEWBONUS at registration.
Stake.us is licensed under Sweepstakes social casino model, operated by Sweepsteaks Limited; not a gambling licence and has been live since 2022. We deposited and withdrew our own crypto during testing without incident. Whether the licence is strong is a separate question; see the Licensing section above.
The minimum deposit at Stake.us is $4.99 Gold Coin pack. Below this threshold, deposits may be held in a pending state until you top up to the floor. The network fee to move a small deposit often exceeds the deposit itself, so round up.
In our testing window, Stake.us averaged Stake Cash redemption: same day for verified accounts. A first withdrawal may be slower if it triggers KYC; once documents clear, subsequent cashouts run at the quoted speed.
No, there is no native app. Apple and Google do not list real-money crypto casino apps in most regions, so the mobile web build is the intended interface. It installs to your home screen and runs full-screen.
USDT TRC-20 for anything under roughly $500. Network fee is around $1 flat and settlement is typically under two minutes. ERC-20 costs $6 to $14 depending on Ethereum gas, which is only worth paying if you already hold USDT on Ethereum and do not want to bridge.
Unplayed bonus funds and any winnings from them forfeit when the bonus expires. Expiry at Stake.us is set in the T and Cs for the active offer. Cash balance from your own deposit is unaffected and remains withdrawable at any point.
No. Stake.us detects and blocks geo-spoofed sessions at withdrawal, which is when it matters. Accounts flagged for VPN use during deposit typically have bonuses voided and withdrawals held pending jurisdiction verification. We do not recommend the attempt.
