How we rate crypto sportsbooks

Every score on this site is built the same way: four weighted criteria, applied identically to all 12 platforms, producing a single number out of 10. Here is exactly what goes into it — so you can judge our ratings, or apply the same test yourself to a platform we haven't covered.

1. Custody & settlement — 30%

The most important question, and the one most often obscured: are funds genuinely non-custodial and settled by smart contract, or is "crypto" just a payment rail bolted onto a conventional book that holds your balance on its own ledger? We check the actual settlement mechanism, whether contracts have been independently audited, and whether the platform discloses its custody model plainly on its own site. A platform marketing itself as decentralized while operating custodially is scored on what it does, not what it says.

2. Odds & margin — 30%

How much the book takes out of a market. We compare pricing on the same fixtures across platforms to identify who quietly shades their lines. For exchanges and AMMs, the equivalent question is the fee structure and whether it is charged on turnover or only on net winnings — a difference that matters far more to a bettor's returns than any welcome bonus.

3. Payout speed & treatment of winners — 25%

Time from withdrawal request to funds landing, and — just as important — whether a platform limits or closes accounts that win consistently. On-chain platforms settle by contract, so the question there is block time and gas. On custodial books it is a policy question, and advertised "instant withdrawals" don't always survive contact with a manual review queue.

4. Coin & chain support — 15%

Which assets and networks you can actually fund and withdraw with, whether stablecoins are available so you're not exposed to price swings mid-bet, and whether network fees are passed on at deposit or withdrawal.

Also checked, but not scored

Two things influence our written verdict without carrying a weight in the number. Bonus terms — wagering multiplier, time limit, maximum bet size while wagering, which markets count — because a large headline figure with an unrealistic rollover is worth less than a smaller clean offer, and because most of the platforms we cover run no bonus at all. And support quality, which we note where we have evidence but do not score, since we have no consistent measurement across all 12 platforms.

What we can't verify

Some things simply aren't publicly checkable: real betting volume on early-stage platforms, internal limiting policies, and the completeness of audits we can only read second-hand. Where that's the case we say so in the review and rank the platform lower for the uncertainty, rather than filling the gap with the operator's own claims.