BVNK is the crypto-gateway wave's institutional outlier, and in March 2026 Mastercard agreed to buy it for up to $1.8 billion, the largest stablecoin acquisition on record. The substance under that price is a license stack no rival in this set matches: a Malta MiCA CASP, UK and Malta e-money licenses, and money-transmitter licenses across 39 US states, wrapped around a stablecoin rail that settles payouts to 130+ countries in one to two minutes. The catch is age and proof. BVNK was founded in 2021, so it carries roughly five years of record against a segment of twelve-year veterans, its pricing lives entirely behind a sales call, and its gaming page shows operator logos but no independently verified casino client. For a regulated operator that wants stablecoin payouts on the most heavily licensed counterparty available, it is the strongest paper in the segment, bought blind on price.
Read moreBest Crypto Payment Gateways & Processors for Casinos in 2026
A crypto gateway takes coin deposits, pays out winnings, and off-ramps to fiat. Since July 1, 2026, the EEA question is binary: a MiCA CASP authorization in a register, or no new European business. That single date reordered this segment.
We rank 11 gateways under the heaviest compliance weighting in the directory: licensing carries 26% and trust 18%, because hacks and entity re-papering actually happened here. Register status is verified, not quoted.
Our verdict, in brief
The MiCA cutoff wrote this ranking, and an institutional newcomer now tops it. BVNK leads at 7.5 on the widest license stack in the segment (a Malta MiCA CASP, UK and Malta e-money licenses, and money-transmitter licenses in 39 US states), minute-fast stablecoin payouts, and a pending $1.8B Mastercard acquisition, set against a five-year record and pricing you only see after a sales call. CoinGate follows at 7.4: both Lithuanian licenses verified on the register, 1% published pricing, a real sandbox, and the one real con of a thin named-casino roster. Confirmo (7.1) is dual-licensed in Ireland with the weakest proven gambling adoption. Triple-A (7.0) carries one of the broadest license stacks here (a Singapore MPI, a French MiCA CASP, US and Canadian registrations) but is the least gambling-committed of the group, accepting licensed operators only under a restricted policy while courting enterprise and esports rather than casinos. B2BINPAY (6.5) is the licensed offshore option that excludes the EU, UK, and US by its own terms. Then the tie that tells the story: CoinsPaid, the gambling-native flagship with the deepest casino rails, sits at 6.0 because its EEA footing broke on July 1 and its own statement froze new clients. NOWPayments matches it at 6.0 from the opposite direction, a 350+ coin catalog with zero licenses anywhere. 0xProcessing (5.7) is the most iGaming-native of the lot, a Web3-first gateway with 85+ coins and per-player wallets, but it discloses no legal entity or register-verified license and onboards merchants with no KYC. Bitpace sits near the floor at 5.6: a properly built gateway on Fireblocks and BitGo custody, but a no-CASP offshore license base and reputation flags over its Ozan Ozerk parent group, ranked here with those flags disclosed rather than omitted. AlphaPo (5.2) is the offshore gambling-native rail, a $60M Lazarus hack victim that on-chain analysts tie to the CoinsPaid team, ranked above CoinPayments as a real if unlicensed option for offshore books. CoinPayments is the floor at 5.1: the 2013 legacy giant with deep coin coverage and published fees, but offshore in the Cayman Islands with no CASP, exited from the US, and carrying a documented record of processing for the OneCoin Ponzi scheme, ranked last with that history stated plainly.
Crypto payment gateways, ranked
11Ranked by weighted Partnerkin score under the crypto weight set, with the full sourced review one click from each card.
The license stack is the story here: a Bank of Lithuania MiCA CASP authorization (LB002323) covering custody, both exchange types, and transfers, plus a payment institution license (LB002324) for stablecoin transfers, both granted December 16, 2025 and corroborated in the ESMA-synced register, making CoinGate the cleanest verified regulatory bet among the crypto gateways in this set. The catch is proof and breadth: twelve years in, there is not one named gambling client behind its iGaming pages, and the live coin list has been trimmed to about 20. With a fully public 1% price card, free SEPA withdrawals, and a real sandbox, it reads as the compliance-first pick for EU-licensed operators willing to trade coin breadth and settlement speed for a register entry.
Read moreConfirmo walks into the crypto-gateway wave with the cleanest regulatory story and the weakest proven casino roster. The Central Bank of Ireland authorized it as a MiCA CASP on December 16, 2025 and as a Payment Institution on April 9, 2026, so both the crypto and fiat legs crossed the July 1, 2026 grandfathering cutoff fully licensed, on top of a 12-year record with no known breach since the 2014 BitcoinPay start. Against that stands a dedicated iGaming page with zero named gambling clients and every fee locked in a contractual Fee Schedule, so a regulated operator gets a genuinely rare rail and negotiates for it blind.
Read moreTriple-A is the segment's licensing overachiever and its least committed to gambling. On substance it is exceptional: a MAS Major Payment Institution, a French AMF MiCA CASP, an ACPR payment license, US money-transmitter licenses in 19 states, and Canadian registrations, all under a founder, Eric Barbier, who built and exited payments companies before this one, with next-day settlement into 50-plus fiat currencies and published fees. The catch is fit. Gambling is accepted only as a Restricted category, the gaming vertical is esports and digital goods with no casino client, the coin list is a short stablecoin set, and the Trustpilot record carries recurring blocked-withdrawal and slow-KYC complaints. It ranks just below the gateways that actually court iGaming, because for a casino operator the paperwork is the best here while the product commitment is the thinnest.
Read moreB2BINPAY is built for one buyer above all: an offshore-licensed casino or betting brand facing LatAm, CIS, or Asia that wants crypto in, USD or EUR out, published pricing, and a back office from people who have run forex-broker infrastructure since 2014, all on one invoice. Everyone regulated in the West is excluded: the Terms keep the US, UK, and EU off the client list, no MiCA authorization exists anywhere, and the casino page flatly lists the USA as unavailable. Take the transparent fees and the register-verified El Salvador and Mauritius licenses for what they are, and expect to be the reference client, because no casino has ever been named.
Read moreNo vendor in this segment has deeper casino crypto rails, and none has a more broken EEA footing today. The rails are real: audited statements show €9.1B processed in 2024 at a €23.1M profit, BitStarz runs the gateway live, and the product set covers cashier, payouts, treasury, and white label. But as of July 3, 2026 CoinsPaid is not a MiCA CASP, its Estonian legacy license is void, and its own June 30 statement freezes new client agreements everywhere while using wind-down / continuity planning language. Shortlist it only as a watch-list candidate: the day Estonia's Finantsinspektsioon says yes it re-enters the conversation at or near the top, and until then the segment's licensed alternatives get the deal.
Read moreThe trade NOWPayments offers is stark: a 350+ coin catalog (matched in this set only by B2BINPAY) and the lowest entry friction of any crypto gateway we reviewed, priced against zero regulatory footing anywhere on earth. A casino gets 350+ claimed currencies, custom token support, published 0.5%/1% fees, and a sandbox it can test before KYB, from a St. Vincent and the Grenadines LLC that holds no license, excludes the EU, UK, and US in its terms, and hands any held balance to an unnamed custodian it expressly does not answer for. For an offshore crypto casino keeping the pass-through flow, that trade can be rational. For anyone holding balances or holding a license, it is the whole risk.
Read more0xProcessing is the most iGaming-native gateway in this set and the most opaque about who it is. The product is real and well-shaped for crypto casinos: 85-plus coins across 18 chains, per-player static wallets, Web3 wallet-connect, free VRCS volatility protection, zero-fee mass payouts, a white-label checkout, and SiGMA and Blockchain Life awards to show for it. The problem is everything a compliance team needs to see. There is no disclosed legal entity, no headquarters, no jurisdiction, and no register-verified license, merchant onboarding is explicitly no-KYC, and the vendor advertises operating without GEO restrictions. It ranks near the bottom because the technology is strong while the counterparty is unknown, and for a licensed operator an unknown, no-KYC counterparty is a hard stop.
Read moreBitpace is the case where the product is better than the paperwork. The gateway is genuinely built, with Fireblocks and BitGo custody, a public sandbox, a Corefy connector, a white-label option, and 70-plus coins, and it markets openly to iGaming. The problem is everything around it. There is no MiCA CASP, the license base is legacy EU VASP registrations plus an offshore Canadian MSB and a Comoros license, and the wider Ozan Ozerk payment group it belongs to is the subject of an OCCRP investigation and a Turkish money-laundering probe, while PayRate42 lists Bitpace on its 'Orange Compliance' tier tied to online-gambling processing. For a regulated operator the tech is real but the counterparty risk is the headline, which is why it sits at the bottom of this ranked set.
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AlphaPo is the offshore gambling rail of this set, and its history is the review. The product is real and built for the job: a custodial gateway for casinos and betting sites, a claimed 30-plus coins (22 published) into 23-plus fiat currencies, mass player payouts, and eight years of processing since 2018. But the record is heavy. In July 2023 its hot wallets were drained of roughly $60M in a Lazarus-attributed hack, it holds no register-verified license from its Panama and Curacao base, its fee schedule hides in the merchant dashboard while third-party analysis puts the all-in cost at 1% to 3.5% against a circulating 0.5% to 1.5% headline, and credible on-chain analysis ties its team to CoinsPaid as the high-risk rail behind a cleaner brand, which CoinsPaid denies. It ranks near the floor: a functioning, gambling-native option for offshore operators who can carry an unlicensed, custodial, once-emptied counterparty and want the honest version of what they are signing.
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CoinPayments is the segment's legacy giant and its cautionary tale. The gateway is real and deep: a decade in market, 175-plus coins for processing and thousands in the wallet, real-time fiat settlement, a published fee card, and plugins for every cart. But the counterparty file is the worst here by a distance. The entity is offshore in Grand Cayman with no MiCA CASP and no register-verified license anywhere, it left the US market from 2019, and it carries a documented record of processing for the OneCoin four-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme (continuing after the fraud was public), plus Control Finance and NovaTech FX, a 2017 XRP loss, and recurring frozen-funds complaints. It ranks last because the technology cannot outrun the compliance and trust history, and for a regulated operator that history is the entire story.
Read moreWhich one fits your operation
After the MiCA cutoff the first filter is your license map. The coin list comes second. Five license postures below, matched to the gateways that will actually sign them, with the catch to check before contracting.
EEA or MGA-licensed operator
A crypto rail your compliance team can point to in a register, with pricing they can budget.
Both Lithuanian licenses verified on the Bank of Lithuania register, a fully public 1% price card, a real sandbox, and a licensed-only clause written into the ToS.
MiCA CASP plus an Irish Payment Institution from one central bank, with the fiat settlement leg running on its own PI paper and stablecoins doing the volume.
Check first: The trade is breadth and cadence: the licensed pair runs the narrowest coin catalogs in the set (~20 and ~10), CoinGate settles weekly on Standard, and Confirmo's fee schedule is private.
Offshore-licensed book that wants structure
Crypto acceptance with published pricing and a fiat off-ramp, outside the US, UK, and EEA.
A complete public fee card (0.25-0.50% in, 0% out), an explicit no-rolling-reserve line, licensed custody in Mauritius and El Salvador, and T+1 USD/EUR settlement.
Check first: The volume-tier period is never stated (monthly or lifetime), fiat withdrawals carry a €5,000 minimum, and the US, UK, and EU are excluded by its own terms.
Maximum coin breadth, self-serve speed
Long-tail altcoins, your own token, and a launch you can test this week.
350+ coins across the eight chains named in its materials, custom token listing proven by BAZEDBET's own BAZED, a no-KYB public sandbox, and $0 fixed costs.
Check first: Zero licenses anywhere, custody handed to a third party the ToS won't even name, and dated freeze complaints from spring 2026. Run pass-through only and sweep balances out.
Gambling-native rails at scale
The deepest casino-specific crypto stack: per-player addresses, affiliate payouts, platform heritage.
The team built SOFTSWISS's crypto module, BitStarz runs the gateway, and the audited books are the segment's most transparent, but its June 30 statement froze all new client agreements pending the Estonian CASP decision.
Check first: You cannot sign today. Treat it as a watch-list entry, and if the CASP lands, re-read the hack history and the 2025 client outflows before contracting.
Cards and crypto in one contract
A single vendor covering the card cashier and the coin rail.
Check first: Every gateway here is crypto-only by design. The working pattern is a card acquirer or orchestrator for fiat plus one of these for the coin side of the cashier.
MiCA status, gateway by gateway
On July 1, 2026 the EEA's transitional period ended: legacy national crypto registrations stopped substituting for a MiCA CASP authorization. Below is where each gateway stands, with every license card quoted from the register entry our review checked, codes and dates included.
MFSA MiCA CASP for System Pay Services (Malta) Ltd, secured Feb 2026, passporting across the EEA.
Crypto-asset services under MiCA, passporting across the EEA
System Pay Services (Malta) Ltd · CASP license Authorised on the MFSA Financial Services Register (checked Jul 10, 2026)
Electronic money and payment services covering the fiat settlement leg
System Pay Services (Malta) Ltd · company C66961 · Financial Institution license Authorised on the MFSA register (Jul 10, 2026)
Electronic money institution. Crypto is unregulated in the UK and outside this permission
System Pay Services Ltd · FRN 901057 · Authorised Electronic Money Institution on the FCA register since Nov 6, 2020
Money transmission. No license in NY, CA, TX, or NJ
System Pay Services (US), Inc. · FinCEN MSB / NMLS 2531294 · state list from BVNK's own license page
None held. Gambling is served as a licensed merchant vertical under the e-money and CASP authorizations
The payments layer holds no ONJN-type supplier registrations (Jul 2026)
The first homegrown Lithuanian company through the MiCA gate, after earlier Lithuanian licenses went to Robinhood Europe and a Nuvei entity.
Custody and administration of crypto-assets, exchange of crypto-assets for funds, exchange of crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, transfers on behalf of clients
UAB Decentralized · LB002323 · valid from Dec 16, 2025 · register-confirmed 2026-07-04, passported to 29 member states
Transfer services for electronic money tokens, i.e. regulated stablecoin transfers
UAB Decentralized · LB002324 · valid from Dec 16, 2025 · register-confirmed 2026-07-04
Virtual-currency exchange operation from 2014 through the MiCA transitional period that closed at the end of 2025
One of the oldest Lithuanian crypto registrants, and it came out of the transition authorized rather than stranded
None held, with gambling served only as a licensed merchant vertical under the CASP
No ONJN-type supplier registrations found as of Jul 2026
The scope covers exchange and transfer services and excludes custody, per the AMF white-list entry.
Exchange of crypto-assets for funds, exchange of crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, and transfer services on behalf of clients. No custody.
Confirmo Limited · authorized Dec 16, 2025 · ref C570624 · MiCA CASP (Article 63) entry register-confirmed on the CBI register 2026-07-04
Payment services under the Irish Payment Services Regulations 2018, covering the fiat settlement leg
Confirmo Limited · authorized Apr 9, 2026 · PSD2 Payment Institution entry register-confirmed on the CBI register 2026-07-04
AMF CASP registration A2026-015 (Paytop SAS), EEA-passporting.
Major Payment Institution, covering digital payment token and cross-border payment services
Triple-A Technologies Pte Ltd · ref PS20200525
Crypto-asset services under MiCA, with EEA passporting
Paytop SAS · registration A2026-015 · LEI 969500VA4A8CRCS2N988
Payment services covering the fiat settlement leg
Paytop SAS
Money services business plus money transmission in 19 states
FinCEN 31000330633586 · NMLS 2514255
Foreign money services business and payment service provider registrations
FINTRAC C10001348 · Bank of Canada PSP
The Italian entity's claimed CASP application is absent from the authorized list and from B2BINPAY's own legal docs past the 2026-07-01 cutoff.
Digital asset service provider: exchange, transfer, and custody of digital assets
PSAD-0064 · B2BINPAY El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. · inscribed 2025-10-20 · register fetched 2026-07-03
Bitcoin Service Provider authorization, supervised by SSF and CNAD
Authorized 2025-04-11 · corroborated by coverage rather than the BCR register itself
Class M broker-dealer, Class O wallet services, Class R custodian under the VAITOS Act 2021
B2binpay Mauritius LTD · four licenses all dated 2026-04-24 on the FSC OPR register (VA-1.0, VA-1.1, VA-1.2, VA-1.3) · register-confirmed 2026-07-04, entity shown without the GB24203002 code
Virtual-currency operator registration (Art. 17-bis), with a MiCA CASP application claimed by the company
Registry code 17196191005 · B2BINPAY ITALY S.R.L. · absent from the authorized-CASP list and from current Terms as of 2026-07-03
The Dream Finance OÜ application sits undecided at Finantsinspektsioon as of 2026-07-03, with activities self-restricted since the 2026-06-30 statement and the legacy license void since 2026-07-01.
Crypto-asset service provider authorization under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114
Application pending at Finantsinspektsioon · activities self-restricted per the Jun 30, 2026 statement · no decision as of Jul 3, 2026
Virtual-currency service license under the pre-MiCA regime
Dream Finance OÜ · void since Jul 1, 2026 · still displayed on the Legal Hub as of Jul 1 and marketed as "Licensed in Estonia" on Jul 3
Money services business registration, an AML filing, no license attached
Dream Finance US LLC (Delaware) · registration 31000313808665 · corroborated on the company contacts page
Money services business registration, an AML filing that stops short of a license
Dream Finance Processing Inc. (Alberta corp. 1000987855) · registration M300000209 · corroborated on the company contacts page
Dream Finance UAB crypto-asset services
All services temporarily suspended · site kept for mandatory legal information only
No application is claimed or pending, and ToS §15.1 excludes EU, UK, and US residents outright as of Apr 13, 2026.
No EMI/PI, VASP/CASP, MSB, MTL, or gambling-supplier authorization anywhere, and none claimed by the vendor
Register sweep 2026-07-03 · SVG has no crypto licensing regime · internal AML policy (Dec 2025) names no supervisor
No MiCA CASP. 0xProcessing does not appear on the ESMA CASP register.
No MiCA CASP held or found on the ESMA register
Not among the 283 authorized CASPs on casptracker.eu (checked 2026-07-06)
Vendor claims a license and three external audits since 2022, with real-time AML and KYT screening
No license, regulator, auditor, entity, or jurisdiction is named, and register verification is claimed only
Simple registration without KYC. The vendor states it does not require information to verify a merchant
A no-KYC, no-GEO-restriction posture that reads as a grey-market enabler
No MiCA CASP on the ESMA register for Bitpace, SG Veteris, Q500, or Chiral (283 CASPs, checked 2026-07-06). No pending application confirmed.
Virtual-asset service provider registration under the pre-MiCA regime
SG Veteris Estonia OU · license FVT000552 · legacy, in MiCA transition
Virtual-asset service provider registration
SG Veteris Europe EOOD · UIC 206635600
Virtual-asset service provider registration, supervised by the FCIS
UAB SG Veteris Lithuania · 305940990
An AML money-services-business registration plus an offshore brokerage/clearing license
Q500 Canada Inc. (FINTRAC MSB) and Chiral Limited (Comoros MISA) · offshore money-movement base
No MiCA CASP authorization held or found on the ESMA register
Not among the 283 authorized CASPs on casptracker.eu (checked 2026-07-06)
No MiCA CASP. AlphaPo does not appear on the ESMA CASP register.
No MiCA CASP held or found on the ESMA register
Not among the 283 authorized CASPs on casptracker.eu (checked 2026-07-06)
AlphaPo Solution Inc., incorporated in Panama, run out of Curacao since 2018
No disclosed VASP, EMI, or gambling-supplier license
Holds merchant funds. Hot wallets drained of roughly $60M in July 2023
Lazarus Group attributed by ZachXBT and security firms
No MiCA CASP and no pending application confirmed. The operating entity is offshore.
No MiCA CASP held or found on the ESMA register
Not among the 283 authorized CASPs on casptracker.eu (checked 2026-07-06)
No EU VASP registration or e-money license surfaced for CoinPayments Inc.
Offshore custodial gateway with no register-verified EU footing
No US money-transmitter license. US service withdrawn 2019, fully by 2022
The company left the US rather than license into it
CoinPayments Inc., Grand Cayman, the offshore holding and operating base
Founded 2013 in Vancouver. The entity and headquarters are now offshore
A pending application is not an authorization, and we never grade it as one. Register checks are dated inside each review together with any legs still awaiting a manual click.
Coins, chains, and the off-ramp
Coin counts are the loudest number in crypto-gateway marketing and the fastest-moving one. Every count below is dated from the vendor's published list, and the chain list is what the vendor actually names, so a thin row is a finding rather than a gap.
Roughly eight networks vendor-stated. These are the ones named across the payouts and gaming pages (Jul 2026).
Stablecoin-first: USDC, USDT, EURC, and PYUSD, with a few native coins such as BTC accepted on deposit. Among the narrowest lists in the segment by design.
USDC, USDT, EURC, and PYUSD, though USDT and PYUSD are being discontinued for EEA-based customers under the bloc's stablecoin rules.
USD, EUR, and GBP for settlement and virtual accounts.
Vendor-stated on the payouts page (Jul 2026).
The eight EVM-era networks on the live supported-currencies page plus Bitcoin, with BTC over Lightning since 2018 (Jul 2026).
Stale 70+ copy survives in vendor plugin listings and 50+ in the docs, against the live supported-currencies page (Jul 2026).
USDT, USDC, and DAI are supported, with EMT transfers covered by the LB002324 payment institution license.
EUR settles by SEPA or SWIFT, with USD and GBP by SWIFT only.
The iGaming page also mentions on-demand bank settlements.
USDT runs on all six EVM-era chains and USDC on five, per the iGaming page (Jul 2026), with Bitcoin adding Lightning.
Counted from the iGaming page token list (Jul 2026), against ~20 live at CoinGate and 350+ at NOWPayments.
Stablecoin-to-stablecoin payments arrived Jul 7, 2025, on top of automated conversion between crypto, stablecoins, and fiat.
The fiat leg runs under the company's own Irish PI license since Apr 2026.
Bitcoin with Lightning, Ethereum, and Tron (USDT TRC20) are evidenced. The full network list is not published (Jul 2026).
BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, PYUSD, and Lightning BTC. A deliberately short stablecoin-first list.
USDT, USDC, and PYUSD are supported, with conversion and fiat settlement behind them.
Next-day local-currency settlement across 50-plus fiat currencies and 140-plus countries.
The exchange rate is locked at checkout with automatic conversion.
The seven named of 17 blockchains claimed on the homepage (Jul 2026).
The homepage figure (Jul 2026).
USDT and USDC run multi-chain and are pitched at gambling operators as the volatility hedge.
Bank operations run in USD and EUR only.
Vendor-stated on the homepage and fee page (Jul 2026).
No network list is published on either brand site (Jul 2026). The coin spread in the annual report implies at least the major networks.
Vendor-stated on both brand sites as of 2026-07-03, while the annual report shows client holdings across more than 37 coins.
USDT, USDC, EURC, and USDG are named, but USDT and DAI have been unavailable to EU clients since 2025-03-31 under ESMA rules.
Vendor-stated settlement currencies with instant conversion, checked on both sites 2026-07-03.
Instant conversion removes the volatility window that unhedged crypto gateways pass to the merchant.
The chains named in vendor materials, with custom token listing on top. BAZEDBET's own BAZED token runs live (Jul 2026).
Homepage and pricing-page figure, while the supported-coins page says more than 300 and the BAZEDBET case study says 330+ (all Jul 2026).
About 17 distinct stablecoin tickers are listed across chains, against a 35+ claim on the casino page (Jul 2026).
Counted on the supported-coins page for the third-party on-ramp, against a 75+ banner on the homepage (Jul 2026).
The default flow settles each payment straight to the merchant's own wallet with no batching.
18 chains vendor-stated. These are the named ones, with the full list not published (Jul 2026).
85-plus coins vendor-stated (Jul 2026), up from 65-plus on older pages. A breadth-leader list.
VRCS auto-converts incoming transactions to USDT or USDC free of charge.
The iGaming case study reports deposit confirmation cut from 120-150 seconds to under 60, at a 96% acceptance rate.
No explicit chain list is published. The network complexity is abstracted behind Fireblocks and BitGo custody (Jul 2026).
Vendor-stated 70+, with 75+ appearing on some pages. The lower figure is kept.
USDC is a named settlement currency alongside USD and EUR.
Vendor-stated 20+, with 40 on some secondary pages. USD, EUR, and USDC are the named settlement options.
Credible on institutional custody rails, though no numeric SLA is published.
The 16 networks in the docs' supported-currencies table (checked in-browser 2026-07-06).
The homepage says 30+, the docs say 20+, and both published lists count 22 assets, with stablecoins spanning up to seven networks each (checked in-browser 2026-07-06).
USDT on seven networks and USDC on six, plus EURC, DAI, EURS, and USDG (docs, Jul 2026).
23+ is the homepage headline. The docs' trading-pair table converts into 40-plus fiat currencies (Jul 2026).
The custodial hack history is the counterweight to the reliability claim.
No network list published.
The processing count, with 2,200+ more coins holdable in the multicoin wallet.
Stablecoins are supported for processing and conversion, at a 1% fee versus 0.5% for BTC and ETH.
Real-time settlement to USD, EUR, and more via Wyre (9 fiats) and Coinmotion (EUR).
Frozen-funds complaints cut against the reliability of holding balances.
Who holds the funds, and who they onboard
Non-custodial by default is not non-custodial always: every payout product in this segment needs a balance somewhere, and the terms say whose. The second column is the onboarding posture, from a licensed-only clause written into one vendor's ToS to rosters that are openly offshore.
Two models: managed, where BVNK holds funds on its own custody and licenses, or self-managed, where the client plugs in its own custodian and liquidity. The fiat leg is safeguarded under the e-money authorizations.
The Financial Crime Risk Appetite Policy (Version 6, Mar 2026) prohibits unlicensed gambling and certain offshore gambling jurisdictions, so only licensed operators are accepted.
Off the table: US: New York, California, Texas, New Jersey, Unlicensed / offshore gambling jurisdictions
One custodial business account accepts, converts, and settles, with the merchant choosing auto or manual conversion per currency. Custody and administration sit inside the MiCA CASP scope.
The trader ToS bars merchants running games of chance without the required licenses.
Off the table: US
Payouts debit a merchant Balance held at Confirmo, while the CASP scope explicitly excludes crypto custody services and the fiat leg runs under its own Irish PI authorization.
The Irish T&Cs never mention gambling, and no merchant-acceptance policy is public.
Fireblocks handles custody, with the blocked-withdrawal complaints being the risk a custodial model concentrates.
Gambling is Restricted for direct merchants (allowed under enhanced due diligence) and Prohibited for PSPs and marketplaces, per the acceptable-use page.
Custodial merchant accounts, with custody a licensed activity under Mauritius FSC Class R and the El Salvador CNAD authorization.
Gambling and Online Games sit in the Terms' "Who we serve" list with no licensed-only language anywhere.
Off the table: US, UK, EU, Russia
Client assets are segregated and held via Binance, Kraken, and Finery: €117.4M of client crypto at 2024-12-31 per the audited statements, re-affirmed in the June 30, 2026 statement.
Audited 2024 geography puts about 89% of revenue in Curacao and Cyprus, with KYB required of every merchant.
Off the table: New clients everywhere (self-declared freeze)
Pass-through by default with no balance held, while custody, mass payouts, and the fiat off-ramp require a balance run by an unnamed third-party custodian (ToS §8.3-8.5, re-dated Apr 13, 2026).
Every named gambling merchant is Curacao-grade, and the terms never ask operators for a license.
Off the table: EU, UK, US
Acceptance is Web3-first and non-custodial, but the VRCS conversion and settlement layer holds a merchant balance before bank payout.
No-KYC merchant onboarding and a stated no-GEO-restriction posture, aimed at high-risk and offshore operators.
Custody runs on Fireblocks and BitGo, with funds described as held in safeguarding accounts, a claim no named license backs.
No public licensed-only merchant policy. The iGaming marketing sits against a PayRate42 report of online-gambling-scheme processing.
AlphaPo holds merchant funds. Those hot wallets were drained of roughly $60M in the 2023 Lazarus hack.
A custodial rail for offshore gambling and high-risk merchants, with no licensed-only posture disclosed.
A custodial multicoin hot wallet with a cold-storage vault option. The frozen-funds complaints are the risk custody concentrates.
A horizontal offshore gateway with no licensed-only policy, a US exit, and a documented history of processing for fraud schemes.
Off the table: United States
The custody clauses matter most when compliance freezes an account. Each review quotes the exact terms that govern held balances, including who bears responsibility for the custodian.
Hacks, freezes, and what the books show
Two Lazarus-attributed breaches, audited client-asset statements, dated freeze complaints, and four companies with no breach on record: this is the segment's actual risk surface. A no-incidents line is a search result, and we say so. Audited books are rarer and worth more.
A Jul 2026 sweep found no hacks or breaches on record, unlike the segment's gambling-native rival.
Mastercard's up-to-$1.8B acquisition (announced Mar 2026) plus Tiger Global, Haun, Coinbase, and Citi backing put stability at the top of the segment.
- · Slow onboarding and KYB, from weeks up to three months (Trustpilot)
- · Balanced by repeated praise for relationship managers (Trustpilot)
No hack or breach history surfaced in searches as of Jul 2026, a check weaker than an audit.
Twelve self-funded years plus the prudential capital floor MiCA imposes on the CASP class.
- · Gift-card non-delivery and claim errors from consumer buyers
- · Funds held when BTC confirms after the invoice window expires
A 2026-07-03 sweep for hacks, breaches, and fines found nothing, consistent with the vendor's own no-breach claim.
Miton-backed since Jan 2022, with vendor-stated volume growing from roughly $70M a year then to $80M+ a month by Dec 2025.
- · Delays and payment or refund confusion (Trustpilot)
- · A 20% fee cited on a wrong-network fund recovery (Trustpilot)
- · 15% one-star share within a 4.1 average across 200 reviews (Jul 2026)
No hack or breach surfaced as of Jul 2026, consistent with Fireblocks custody.
Roughly $14M raised including a Peak XV-led Series A, with a licensed multi-jurisdiction base.
- · Blocked crypto withdrawals and zero-progress cases (Trustpilot)
- · KYC verification delays beyond two weeks (Trustpilot)
- · At least one on-chain-confirmed payment reported never credited
No publicly reported incidents found as of Jul 2026. That is a search-based check, no audit.
Privately held inside a 12-year group of roughly 500 staff, with no outside funding rounds on record.
Hot wallets were breached on 2023-07-22 for $37.3M and on 2024-01-05/06 for about $7.5M, both attributed to Lazarus, with no client losses reported by the company.
Audited 2024 shows €23.1M profit and restored equity, yet the report flags a materially weaker 2025 and the 2026 statement invokes wind-down / continuity planning.
- · End-user fund complaints aimed at merchant casinos, none at the B2B gateway itself
- · A 2024 GDPR document-access complaint citing the hack history
No hack or breach surfaced in a 2026-07-03 sweep, with the Aug 2025 Jota Foundation episode being widget misuse by a scam site rather than a compromise.
No financials, no disclosed owners, and a 15-to-22-person team behind a claimed 30M+ monthly transactions.
- · Compliance-triggered account freezes with balances inside (dated examples Apr 15, May 19, Jun 6, 2026)
- · Network-fee padding allegations against the 0% payout marketing (verified review, Apr 28, 2026)
- · Weekend support described as bot-level, with funds waiting until Monday (Apr 11, 2026)
No hack or breach surfaced as of Jul 2026, aided by the non-custodial acceptance model.
No entity, financials, or funding disclosed. Stability cannot be assessed.
- · Opacity of the legal entity and jurisdiction is the recurring diligence concern
- · Positive Trustpilot notes praise Telegram account managers, typical of grey-market processors
No hack or breach surfaced as of Jul 2026, consistent with custody sitting on Fireblocks and BitGo instead of a home-built wallet.
No audited figures or funding on record, and the parent group carries an active investigative cloud.
- · PayRate42 'Orange Compliance' listing tied to online-gambling processing, with no merchant complaints of concern noted
- · Thin Trustpilot base, positive but too few reviews to weigh
In July 2023 hot wallets on Ethereum and Tron were drained of roughly $60M, attributed to Lazarus by ZachXBT and security firms.
No audited figures or funding disclosed, and a $60M hack on the record, against continued operation into 2026.
- · The 2023 Lazarus hack and the custodial fund-holding model are the dominant risk signals
- · The unresolved AlphaPo-CoinsPaid rail analysis is the recurring reputation concern
In 2017 a bug sent around 10 million dollars of XRP to incorrect addresses, on top of the recurring frozen-funds complaints.
No audited figures, an offshore entity, a US-market exit, and roughly $30M raised years ago against an active reputation cloud.
No formal enforcement action was confirmed, though the fraud-facilitation reporting and a 2021 civil lawsuit sit on the record.
- · Frozen funds and zero-limit accounts, including balances held since 2017 without notice
- · Refund and withdrawal fee complaints, including fees exceeding the refund
- · Fraud-facilitation reporting: OneCoin, Control Finance, NovaTech FX
Crypto payment gateways, compared
The axes that decide a crypto rail after MiCA: register status first, then coverage, then what the record shows.
| Provider | Score | MiCA | Coins | Fiat off-ramp | Public docs | Fees published | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BVNK | 7.5 | Authorized | 4+ | 3 | None found | ||
| CoinGate | 7.4 | Authorized | 20+ | 3 | None found | ||
| Confirmo | 7.1 | Authorized | 10+ | — | None found | ||
| Triple-A | 7.0 | Authorized | 6+ | 50 | None found | ||
| B2BINPAY | 6.5 | None | 350+ | 2 | — | None found | |
| CoinsPaid | 6.0 | Pending | 20+ | 40 | — | Major | |
| NOWPayments | 6.0 | None | 350+ | 21 | None found | ||
| 0xProcessing | 5.7 | None | 85+ | — | None found | ||
| Bitpace | 5.6 | None | 70+ | 20 | None found | ||
| AlphaPo | 5.2 | None | 22+ | 23 | Major | ||
| CoinPayments | 5.1 | None | 175+ | 9 | Major |
A dash means the vendor does not publish it. Every figure carries its date and source in the linked review.
Fees on the record
The most price-transparent segment in the directory: most vendors publish rates, and one even puts a no-rolling-reserve line on the record.
Quote-only
Where a gateway keeps its fee schedule private, the review covers the structure as far as the public record goes, with no borrowed figures.
Working with them, on the record
Crypto-gateway service runs on tickets and Telegram, and almost nobody signs an SLA. What each vendor actually states is below. In this segment the number that matters most is one none of them publishes: how fast a human answers when compliance freezes a balance.
Relationship managers are repeatedly praised in Trustpilot reviews, pointing to a real desk.
No numeric response SLA appears on the site or in the docs.
On Trustpilot the company typically replies within a week.
Channels, languages, and escalation structure are not published.
No numeric response SLA, and support responsiveness is a recurring Trustpilot theme.
A personal AM plus a dedicated onboarding team is the stated model, corroborated by merchant reviews from May 2025.
The casino page promises a personal manager around the clock for gambling merchants.
Frozen-account threads show compliance going silent for weeks in the worst cases.
A dedicated account manager, often reachable on Telegram, is a repeated positive in reviews.
No numeric response SLA. Support runs through account managers.
A dedicated account team is the vendor's own homepage wording.
No numeric response SLA appears on the site or in the docs.
No numeric response SLA, and support quality is a recurring complaint theme.
NOWPayments' 24/7 personal manager line comes from its casino page. Its review documents merchant reports of weekend bot-level support and multi-week freeze silences in spring 2026. CoinsPaid's account management stands, but new onboarding is suspended pending its CASP decision.
The segment's recent record
The road to the July 2026 MiCA cutoff, license by license and incident by incident:
Secures the Malta MiCA CASP from the MFSA (February). Mastercard announces a definitive agreement to acquire BVNK for up to $1.8B (March 17), expected to close by year end.
The post-MiCA shape shows: about 20 live coins on the supported-currencies page, 1.4M payments reported for 2025, and Vilius Semėnas presented as CEO on the rewritten about page.
Plasma zero-gas partnership (January 22), Paxos US stablecoin partnership (February 9), and FT3 PAY signs Confirmo as exclusive crypto-payments partner (March 25).
Irish Payment Institution authorization lands (April 9), three senior hires for North America and Europe follow (May 12), and the company crosses the July 1 MiCA grandfathering cutoff fully authorized.
France's AMF authorizes Paytop SAS as a MiCA CASP (registration A2026-015), giving Triple-A an EEA crypto passport.
Mauritius FSC licenses B2binpay Mauritius LTD across four classes, VASP plus M, O, and R (all dated April 24, announced May 13). The Terms updated June 26 keep the US, UK, and EU on the do-not-market list as Italy's MiCA transition closes July 1 with no B2BINPAY authorization.
Jelena Zolotenko joins the Dream Finance OÜ board on June 23 with a MiCA mandate. On June 30 the company publishes its restriction statement and, the same day, the PHH Group partnership announcement. FVT000166 goes void July 1 with the CASP application still pending and the Lithuanian entity suspended.
The ToS is re-dated April 13 with §15.1 excluding EU, UK, and US residents, and April through June bring a cluster of dated Trustpilot reports of compliance freezes with merchant balances inside.
Wins the SiGMA Dubai Best Crypto Payment Solution award, while still publishing no legal entity or license.
PayRate42 keeps Bitpace on its 'Orange Compliance' tier, and OCCRP and Turkish reporting cover a money-laundering probe into the wider Ozerk payment group. No MiCA CASP appears on the ESMA register.
AlphaPo is still processing, with documentation updated mid-year, and remains an offshore, unlicensed custodial rail.
Ships the Worldpay stablecoin payout relationship and expands its US money-transmitter footprint. Named to the FXC Intelligence Cross-Border Payments 100.
The Bank of Lithuania grants MiCA CASP authorization LB002323 and payment institution license LB002324 on December 16, the first CASP authorization won by a homegrown Lithuanian company.
Confirmo Services s.r.o. is founded in Prague's Karlín (March), stablecoin-to-stablecoin payments launch (July 7), and VivoPower brings Nasdaq-listed stablecoin payroll (September 18).
The Central Bank of Ireland authorizes Confirmo Limited as a MiCA CASP (December 16), and the December 23 PR claims $80M+ monthly volume across 800+ enterprise clients while listing e-commerce, prop trading, forex, and payroll as the industries, with iGaming absent.
US money-transmitter licensing expands across 19 states, alongside Canadian FINTRAC and Bank of Canada registrations.
El Salvador arrives in two steps: the central bank's Bitcoin Service Provider authorization (April 11) and CNAD digital-asset register entry PSAD-0064 for B2BINPAY El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. (inscribed October 20).
USDT and DAI are delisted for EU clients by March 31 under ESMA rules, with disclosed client outflows and an April revenue drop. On February 12, €932,902 of traced hack funds returns. FinTelegram publishes its volume-inflation analysis in November.
A fraudulent Diogo Jota Foundation donation site uses a NOWPayments widget in August. The vendor's statement (August 21) says no payments were ever processed and the widget was disabled.
Privacy and AML/KYC documents are re-papered to FD Transfers LLC in SVG on December 15, completing the Seychelles-to-SVG migration.
Wins a Blockchain Life Web3 Processing and Payment Solution of the Year award.
Ali Rafi is named CEO, and an XRPL payment-processing case study is published.
Raises a $50M Series B led by Haun Ventures (December) with Coinbase Ventures and Tiger Global at around a $750M valuation.
Ten years of operation, marked by a Binance Pay partnership one-year report and a milestone retrospective.
A second breach on January 5-6 takes roughly $7.5M by press count, €4.08M per the books. ISO 27001 is obtained and positive equity returns in Q3. The audited year ends at €9.1B processed and €23.1M profit.
The ToS in force (February 13) still names NOWPayments Ltd, Seychelles, registry code 224532, as the operating entity.
Our methodology
We score crypto gateways with licensing at 26% because since July 2026 register status decides who can even take your business in Europe, and trust at 18% because this is the one segment with documented hacks, entity migrations, and freeze complaints. Custody models matter as much as coin counts: who actually holds the keys, and what the terms say when compliance freezes an account, are answered in every review.
- 11
- providers in this segment
- 6
- weighted dimensions
- BVNK
- segment leader at 7.5
- July 2026
- last verified
The six dimensions under the crypto weights
Dimension scores run 0 to 10, taken from the dataset and then weighted. Set averages and leaders here come from the eleven crypto reviews and nothing else.
Licensing & compliance
Licenses checked against public registers: EMI and PI authorizations, MiCA CASP status, US money transmitter and state gaming registrations, PCI attestations. Claims without register entries earn less.
Trust & track record
Years in market, named and verifiable clients, incidents and regulatory actions with their outcomes, ownership transparency, and financial stability signals.
Settlement & payouts
How fast money actually moves: merchant settlement terms, player payout speed, instant rails, FX handling, and the tooling around disputes and reconciliation.
Coverage & methods
What an operator can actually reach through the product: methods, currencies, coins, bank networks, local rails, and the markets they add up to.
Integration & cashier
What engineers get: public docs, sandboxes, hosted cashiers, platform connectors, and for orchestrators the connector network itself.
Commercials & transparency
Published pricing versus quote-only, fees on the record, reserves and minimums, and how much a buyer knows before the first sales call.
What we weigh that's specific to crypto gateways
These four factors sit alongside the score and decide whether a gateway survives your compliance review.
MiCA CASP entries are checked in NCA registers. Pending applications and legacy licenses void since July 2026 are stated as exactly that.
A homepage can say non-custodial while the payout product runs a balance. We quote the terms that govern who holds funds in custody products.
Hacks with dates, booked losses, and client-fund outcomes. A backstopped loss with audited books reads differently from silence.
This is the one segment where most vendors publish pricing. We quote it verbatim and note unilateral-change clauses.
Grade scale
On the site-wide scale, 8.0 and up is excellent, 6.5 to 7.9 good, and below 6.5 mixed. The crypto weights above turn the six dimension scores into the overall.
Confidence on every field
Last verified July 2026. CASP scopes quoted from register entries. Volume figures are vendor-stated unless audited books exist.
What we don't do
- Paid placement does not exist here. A gateway cannot buy its rank.
- We don't treat a pending MiCA application as an authorization.
- We don't average away hacks. They print with dates and outcomes.
- We don't take coin counts from marketing pages when the vendor publishes a catalog.
The other payment segments
A payments stack is usually two or three of these working together. Each guide ranks its segment under its own weights.
Frequently asked
What crypto-facing operators ask after the MiCA cutoff.
What changed on July 1, 2026 for casino crypto payments?+
Legacy national crypto registrations stopped substituting for MiCA authorization in the EEA. Gateways without a CASP license lost the legal basis for new European business: CoinsPaid's Estonian license became void and its own statement froze new clients, while CoinGate and Confirmo continue under register-verified authorizations.
Is a non-custodial gateway safer for an operator?+
Only for the flows that are actually non-custodial. NOWPayments defaults to pass-through, but its custody and mass-payout products place funds with a third-party custodian its terms take no responsibility for. Read the custody clauses, not the homepage label. The reviews quote them.
Which crypto gateways publish their fees?+
Most of the segment, unusually. CoinGate charges a published 1%, NOWPayments 0.5% rising to 1% with conversion, B2BINPAY tiers from 0.4% down to 0.25% with an explicit no-rolling-reserve line, and CoinsPaid states under 1.5% with free setup. Confirmo is the exception, deferring to a private fee schedule.
Can a casino still sign with CoinsPaid?+
Not as of July 2026. The company's June 30 statement says it is not entering new client agreements anywhere, in the EEA or beyond, while its Estonian MiCA application sits undecided and its legacy license went void on July 1. Existing merchants continue under wind-down and continuity planning language. The gambling-native rails and the audited books are real, which is exactly why the right move is a watch list entry rather than a contract until the CASP decision lands.
Which stablecoins and chains do these gateways actually run?+
CoinGate settles USDT, USDC, and DAI across eight networks including TRON, Solana, and Base, with its stablecoin transfers covered by a dedicated Lithuanian PI license. Confirmo runs USDT on six chains and USDC on five. B2BINPAY and NOWPayments both push USDT and USDC multi-chain, with NOWPayments listing about 17 stablecoin tickers and taking custom tokens. One EU wrinkle worth knowing: ESMA rules pushed USDT and DAI off the menu for EU clients of some providers back in March 2025, so ask specifically about your settlement stablecoin in your markets.
Do offshore and unlicensed casinos still have crypto gateway options?+
Yes, and the trade is explicit. B2BINPAY lists gambling in its terms' who-we-serve section, holds licensed custody in Mauritius and El Salvador, publishes its full fee card, and excludes the US, UK, and EU by its own paper, which makes it the structured offshore pick. NOWPayments onboards Curacao-grade brands with no license asked and zero licenses of its own, parking custody with a third party its ToS explicitly disclaims. The April-June 2026 freeze complaints in our review show what that costs when compliance flags an account.
Is there a crypto payment gateway without KYC?+
On the merchant side the precise term is KYB, and the short answer is: almost. NOWPayments asks for no gambling license and markets simplified KYB, and only its test environment skips checks entirely, which is exactly why it scores 6.0 with zero licenses anywhere. The cost arrives later. Its custody clause names no custodian and accepts no liability for one, and our review documents freeze complaints from spring 2026 when compliance flagged accounts. Licensed gateways like CoinGate and Confirmo run full KYB under their regulators. Player-side KYC is a separate question answered by your gambling license, not by the gateway.
Can BitPay or another mainstream crypto processor serve a casino?+
No. BitPay's acceptable-use policy bans gambling outright, which is why it does not appear in this directory despite showing up in player-facing "BitPay casino" listicles that never checked the merchant side. The mainstream processors built for e-commerce mostly follow the same posture. A casino's real choices are the gambling-serving gateways ranked here, each of which states its operator policy in terms we quote in the custody and onboarding section above.
Do players still need KYC when a casino takes crypto deposits?+
Player KYC stays on the operator side and your gambling license sets it. The gateway's own obligations are the merchant-side layer. Licensed gateways run KYB under their regulator (CoinGate and Confirmo under MiCA supervision), and EU transfers carry Travel Rule data requirements, which is one reason withdrawals to self-custody wallets can take verification steps that surprise players. An unlicensed gateway asking nothing at onboarding is not removing compliance work. It is moving all of it, plus the risk, onto you.
Should the cashier price in BTC or stablecoins?+
Stablecoins won this argument. USDT and USDC dominate gambling flows because neither side wants exchange-rate risk between deposit and payout, every gateway here settles them, and CoinGate's stablecoin transfers even run under a dedicated payment-institution license. BTC still matters for player demand, but the operational pattern is BTC accepted at the edge with instant conversion, stablecoins or fiat in the treasury. Just confirm the settlement coin per market, since the ESMA restrictions covered in the stablecoin question above apply here too.
