How to Verify a Crypto Casino’s License Yourself

A license logo on a casino’s homepage tells you almost nothing. Logos can be copied from any licensed site in an afternoon, license numbers can be fabricated or simply outdated, and “licensed” can mean anything from a rigorously audited operation to a shell company that filed paperwork once and never followed up. In February 2026, Curaçao’s own regulator publicly exposed a site called trumpbet.cc for displaying a completely fake digital authorization seal. This is proof that this isn’t a theoretical risk.

The good news is tha most major licensing jurisdictions actually do let you check independently. Here’s how, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Curaçao

Curaçao overhauled its licensing system with the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK), which came into force December 24, 2024, formally replacing the old “master license and sub-license” model. In the old model a handful of master holders sublicensed dozens of unrelated operators, with direct licensing through the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA). All legacy sub-licenses have since expired. A site still citing an old-style sub-license number is operating outside the current framework.

The actual verification method is built into the license seal itself. Every CGA-licensed operator is required to display a Certificate of Operation seal, usually in the site’s footer, and that seal must be a working link to cert.cga.cw. Click it and a genuine seal takes you to a certificate page showing:

The exact domain being verified The licensed operator’s company name and registration number The current license status (should read “Active”)

The domain match is the part that actually catches fakes.Ff the certificate shows a different domain than the site you’re on, that means the seal was copied from another operator’s certificate. The CGA explicitly classifies this as unauthorized or fraudulent, not just outdated. Stake’s certificate, for example, confirms stake.com is operated by Medium Rare N.V. under license OGL/2024/1451/0918. This a real, working example of what a legitimate check looks like. This is also almost certainly the mechanism that caught trumpbet.cc’s fake seal in February 2026. Either the seal didn’t link anywhere real, or it linked to a certificate for a domain that wasn’t trumpbet.cc.

There’s no separate searchable database to fall back on. Clicking the seal through to cert.cga.cw is the actual verification method, not one option among several. If a site doesn’t have a working seal at all, that’s not a minor omission; it’s the only check available, and it’s missing.

Here’s what this looks like in practice, using mBit Casino as a real, worked example:

Start at the source, not a review site. Every CGA-licensed casino is required to display a Certificate of Operation seal, typically in the footer. On mbitcasino.io, it’s down here – easy to miss if you’re not looking for it.

Click it. A genuine seal is a live link, not a static image. Clicking should take you to cert.cga.cw. If nothing happens, or it opens a PDF or a generic page instead, that’s already a red flag on its own.

This is the part that actually proves something. The certificate confirms three things at once. The domain is mbitcasino.io, matching exactly what you’re browsing). The licensed operator is Scores55 Tech B.V. (which should also be listed on site footer). The current status is Active. If any of these were wrong, a mismatched domain especially, that’s the CGA’s own definition of an unauthorized or fraudulent seal, not just an outdated one.

Two minutes, no account needed, no guesswork, versus just trusting a badge because it looked official. And unlike Anjouan or Tobique, there’s no separate database to search afterward. This seal check is the whole verification, not step one of several.

Anjouan

The Anjouan Gaming Board maintains a public license register. Look for the specific license number on the casino’s own site (usually in the footer), then cross-check it against the register directly rather than trusting a “verified” badge or seal image alone. Badge images can be copied regardless of whether the underlying license is real or current.

Tobique Gaming Commission

The Tobique Gaming Commission publishes a license holders list directly on its own site (thetgc.ca). This is worth checking not just for whether a license exists, but for its expiration date. Tobique licenses aren’t indefinite, and an expired license quietly left unrenewed is easy to miss if you only glance at a badge.

Jurisdictions without a public registry

Not every regulator makes this easy. Some licensing bodies, Panama’s Gaming Control Board (JCJ) among them, don’t appear to offer any public, searchable way to confirm an individual operator’s current license status. Wild Casino (WildCasino.ag) is a real example. It’s historically been described as Panama-licensed, but when asked directly for specifics, support wouldn’t provide them (see below). Since Panama has no public registry to check independently, there’s no way to resolve that on our own the way we could for a Curaçao- or Anjouan-licensed site.

If a casino is licensed somewhere without a public registry:

Ask support directly for the specific license number and issuing body: Don’t just ask, “are you licensed,” which invites a vague yes. A specific, confident answer with a checkable number is a good sign; a deflection is a real red flag worth taking seriously, not brushing past. Don’t treat “the parent company is well-known” as a substitute for the specific brand’s own license status. A casino sharing ownership with an established, older brand doesn’t automatically mean it inherited that brand’s regulatory standing.

Red flags worth checking for specifically

The bottom line

A license badge is a claim, not proof. Where a public registry exists, use it. It takes a few minutes and turns a guess into a fact. Where it doesn’t, treat vague answers from support as seriously as you would an outright red flag, and lean on independent complaint-resolution platforms rather than the casino’s own marketing.

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