Whatever the currency, a site offering gambling to British consumers needs a Gambling Commission licence, and Revolut blocks crypto transfers to addresses linked to unlicensed gambling entities.
The list above names bet365, 888 Casino, Betfair, QuinnBet, All British Casino, BetCrown, Grand Ivy and 247Bet. Licence and cashier details for each operator are on the main page.
Operators appear in this list when a Great Britain licence stands behind them.
What is a crypto casino?
Revolut sells crypto inside its app, which is a separate product from paying a gambling site.
The Gambling Commission publishes the register of licensed businesses, and the company behind any crypto casino brand can be searched there before a deposit.
Two licence conditions make the model difficult. Operators licensed here must verify identity before play and must check where a customer's money comes from, which sits awkwardly with a deposit arriving from an address nobody has named. They must also be part of the national self exclusion scheme, and a site taking anonymous deposits has no reliable way to recognise a registered person.
Is it legal to play at a crypto casino in the UK?
Gambling offered to British consumers requires a Gambling Commission licence, and the register of licensed businesses is public. A crypto brand belongs in it only if its company holds that licence. British operators have been unable to take credit cards for gambling since 14 April 2020, a rule aimed at the instrument rather than at tokens, and it creates no alternative road to a licensed operator.
A brand that shows only a licence from another jurisdiction, or none at all, has no entry in that register.
For an unlicensed operator, no British authority would hear a complaint.
How a crypto casino deposit from Revolut works
- Buy the token in the app, at the rate shown at the moment of the exchange.
- Add the destination address in the crypto section. Addresses are stored, and the app shows any limit attached to a specific address on the select address screen.
- Enter the amount, at which point the app quotes the service fee and the anticipated network fee as one total.
- Submit. If the address is one Revolut has linked to an unlicensed gambling entity in your jurisdiction, the withdrawal is blocked here and the funds stay in your account.
- If it goes through, the site credits the deposit once the network confirms it, which the cashier controls and the bank does not.
On the way back, the same rule applies in reverse: a payment from a gambling linked address is blocked on arrival with the option of returning it to another address.
What Revolut does with gambling-linked addresses
On a withdrawal, the app reports that the funds were being sent to an address linked to an unlicensed gambling entity in your jurisdiction. It adds that the withdrawal was blocked for compliance reasons and that your funds remain safe in the account. The page adds that similar transactions to such addresses will continue to be blocked in future.
On a deposit, the app reports that the transaction originated from an address linked to an unlicensed gambling entity in your jurisdiction. The deposit is blocked, and the funds can be returned to an alternate address.
Buying crypto in the app and sending it to an unlicensed gambling site runs into the first rule. Being paid a win from such a site back into the app runs into the second. And the phrase in your jurisdiction means the assessment depends on your country, not on the token or the amount.
The rule names addresses linked to unlicensed entities, not crypto in general, and it is a compliance measure rather than the customer facing gambling block described further down.
If a transfer is blocked
Read the message. The app names the reason, and for this rule the wording refers to an address linked to an unlicensed gambling entity in your jurisdiction.
Check where your funds are. On a blocked withdrawal they remain in the account; on a blocked deposit they can be returned to an alternate address.
Do not repeat the attempt against the same address. The help page states that similar transactions will continue to be blocked, so a second attempt produces a second block.
Separate this from a limit problem. If the message refers to a daily, monthly or address specific limit, that is a different control, visible under sending limits in the crypto section of the app.
Checking the address before you send
The cashier shows the deposit address as text or as a QR code, and some cashiers put a network selector above it. Choosing the wrong network is the most common way to lose a transfer. The token then goes to a blockchain that the recipient does not monitor, and this risk is the same for any crypto payment.
The Revolut app saves the addresses you add. It reviews the limit of a saved address each time you use it, so a limit can appear or disappear between two transfers.
You cannot see in advance whether an address is blocked. Revolut publishes no list of such addresses, so you learn about a block only when the transfer is refused with the message quoted above.
Send a small amount first when you use a new address. The service fee is £1 or £3 for any amount, so a test transfer is cheap. Copy and paste the address. One wrong character sends the funds to an address from which they cannot be recovered.
Crypto casino fees and limits
A crypto withdrawal from the Revolut app has two costs. The first is the Revolut service fee: £1 for XRP, XLM, DOT, SOL, AVAX, XTZ, ALGO and ADA, and £3 for every other cryptocurrency. The second is the network fee, which varies and goes to the miners or validators that process the transaction. The app shows the expected total before you submit, and the help page says you are never charged more than that quote.
Buying and selling crypto inside the app has its own costs. Card payments funded from crypto carry no exchange fee, but a fair usage fee can apply depending on the plan. On the Standard plan the £1,000 monthly exchange limit counts currency, crypto and commodities together.
Revolut also sets limits. You can make up to 100 crypto exchanges in 24 hours, withdraw up to £3,000 in cash funded from crypto in 24 hours, and spend up to £100,000 in one transaction. Daily and monthly limits apply to crypto withdrawals as well. Revolut reviews them from time to time and can set a lower limit for a particular external address, based on its assessment of the address and of your account history.
A full round trip includes every one of these costs. You pay the spread when you buy the token. You pay £1 or £3 plus the network fee when you send it. The casino can have its own network requirement for deposits. When winnings are sent back, a network fee is paid again, and Revolut can refuse the incoming transfer under the address rule.
A card payment in pounds carries no Revolut fee when the account is held in pounds, so the crypto route costs more at each stage.
Revolut treats a payment made with crypto as a sale of crypto. Its help page says this is a taxable activity in many countries and advises customers to take independent legal advice on what is taxable.
Is a crypto casino safe?
Check six things on a crypto gambling site before you deposit.
- The company name. A licensed operator states the name of the company that runs the site. If no company is named, you have nobody to send a complaint to.
- The licence badge. A badge that links nowhere or only opens an image proves nothing. The Gambling Commission register is searchable, and a search takes a few seconds.
- The deposit methods. An operator with banking relationships offers cards or bank transfers in addition to tokens. A site that takes only tokens has no such relationships.
- Identity checks. Every operator licensed in Great Britain must verify its customers, so a site that never asks for identification is not licensed here.
- The bonus terms. Look for the wagering multiple and the maximum amount that can be converted to cash. If these numbers are missing, the operator decides the outcome.
- The domain. A domain that changed recently, or several almost identical domains for one brand, usually point to payment or access restrictions.
The gambling block and the address rule
| Gambling block | Address rule | |
|---|---|---|
| Who switches it on | you, in the app | nobody, it is a compliance control |
| What it covers | card payments identified as gambling by merchant category code | crypto sent to or received from addresses linked to unlicensed gambling entities |
| Default state | disabled when an account is opened | always in force |
| Can it be turned off | yes, with a delay of up to 48 hours | no |
| What it does not touch | bank transfers and third party app payments | ordinary crypto transfers unconnected to gambling |
The two controls work independently because they check different things. Switching the gambling block off does not release a blocked crypto transfer, and switching it on does not stop one.
Alternatives to crypto casinos for UK players
A card payment works at casinos licensed in Great Britain. It carries no Revolut fee in your base currency, and Revolut applies a weekly limit of £25,000 to the betting and gambling category.
A bank transfer reaches the same casinos. It is free when you send it in the currency of your account to a UK account, and the gambling block in the app does not apply to it.
The crypto route leads to operators that hold no British licence. It costs more at each stage, and the address rule that applies to it cannot be switched off.
The main UK page explains the card and transfer routes, and the bank transfer casinos page covers transfers in detail.
Responsible gambling
The National Gambling Helpline run by GamCare is on 0808 8020 133, free of charge. Gordon Moody is on 01384 241292 and Gamblers Anonymous UK on 0330 094 0322.
GamStop costs nothing to join and closes off online gambling accounts and apps for whoever signs up. Its reach stops at operators licensed here.
Inside the app, two separate tools exist. One tool refuses card payments whose merchant category reads as gambling; it works the moment you enable it and takes as long as 48 hours to come off. The other is aimed at a single merchant you have already paid, bounded at five live blocks and three merchants in a rolling month.
Crypto casino FAQ
Are crypto casinos legal in the UK?
None of them holds a Great Britain licence, which leaves every such site answering to another authority or to nobody.
Will Revolut let me send crypto to a casino?
Not to an address it has linked to an unlicensed gambling entity in your jurisdiction. That withdrawal is blocked and the funds stay in your account.
Can a win be paid back into my Revolut crypto account?
Not from such an address. The deposit is blocked, and the funds can be sent back to an alternate address instead.
What does a crypto withdrawal cost?
A service fee of £1 for XRP, XLM, DOT, SOL, AVAX, XTZ, ALGO and ADA, or £3 for other tokens, plus a variable network fee quoted in the app before you submit.
Sources
- Revolut help centre, why a crypto withdrawal and a crypto deposit to or from a gambling linked address are blocked, en-GB, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, crypto withdrawal fees, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, crypto payment fees, rates and limits, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, crypto withdrawal limits, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, card payment fees and limits, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, how the gambling block works, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, how to block and unblock a merchant, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut blog, new UK gambling payments rules, 10 April 2020.
- Revolut help centre, gambling support in the UK, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut personal fee pages for British plans, read 13 November 2026.
- GamStop self exclusion scheme, read 13 November 2026.
- Gambling Commission public registers, read 13 November 2026.
18+ only. Gambling carries a risk of debt, isolation and dependency. The National Gambling Helpline run by GamCare is on 0808 8020 133, free of charge. Links to casinos on this site are affiliate links; a commission may be paid if you open an account, and it does not affect the figures published or the order of the list. We are not connected with Revolut Ltd or Revolut Bank UAB.