Stake
Online casino
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| March 11 2025 | Stake's UK business officially closed following the surrender of its gambling licence. |
| February 2025 | Stake announced it would surrender its UK gambling licence due to a controversial social media advertisement featuring porn actress Bonnie Blue, which was seen as using sexual content to attract young customers. |
| October 2024 | The UK Advertising Standards Authority began monitoring Stake's advertising partnership with content aggregator accounts on X, which involved watermarking viral content with Stake logos. |
| September 4 2023 | Stake experienced a significant cryptocurrency theft when over an unspecified amount was stolen from one of its Ethereum wallets. The FBI attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group. |
| June 2023 | A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a $580 million lawsuit against Stake filed by Christopher Freeman, who claimed he was excluded from the business. |
| 2022 | Craven and Tehrani launched Kick, a competing livestreaming service with higher revenue splits and more lenient content guidelines, particularly for gambling streams. |
| 2022 | Stake secured advertising deals with streaming personalities Trainwreckstv, xQc, and Drake, providing them with gambling credits during Twitch streams, which led to increased scrutiny of online gambling streaming. |
| September 2022 | Twitch announced a ban on streams of online slots, roulette, and dice games from services not licensed in the United States, effectively prohibiting Stake's gambling streams. |
| August 1 2022 | Stake.us was launched as a separate site specifically for U.S. residents. |
| December 2021 | Stake expanded to the United Kingdom through a partnership with TGP Europe. |
| 2017 | Stake online casino was launched by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani. |
| 2016 | Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani established Easygo, a company developing games for online casinos, which would later lead to the creation of Stake. |
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