Inside Curaçao's August 2026 Licence Register: Who Holds an Indefinite Licence — and Who Is Still Under Assessment
We read the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s Online Gaming License Registry — the 26-page PDF the regulator publishes, dated 20 August 2026 — line by line, and checked every operator in our roster against it. The register records each licensee’s operating entity, licence number, issue date, expiry and a status column, and that status column currently splits the market’s biggest crypto names into two visibly different groups.
What the register shows, entity by entity
From the registry PDF dated 20 August 2026 (“Licenses Granted under the New Online Gaming Policy, effective November 15, 2023”):
| Brand | Operating entity | Licence number | Issued | Expires | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shuffle | Natural Nine B.V. | OGL/2024/1337/0628 | 24 Dec 2025 | N/A | Indefinite |
| BitStarz | Gareton B.V. | OGL/2024/165/0185 | 24 Dec 2025 | N/A | Indefinite |
| Roobet | Raw Entertainment B.V. | OGL/2024/687/0427 | 24 Dec 2025 | N/A | Indefinite |
| Stake | Medium Rare N.V. | OGL/2024/1451/0918 | 9 Dec 2025 | 9 Jun 2026 | Assessment in progress |
| Cloudbet | Halcyon Super Holdings B.V. | OGL/2024/328/0599 | 23 Nov 2025 | 23 May 2026 | Assessment in progress |
We also checked the CGA’s separate enforcement register (edition dated 10 July 2026), which records licences revoked, suspended or not extended: none of the five entities above appear in it.
How to read “Assessment in progress”
The registry does not define its status values on the page, so we report them as written and note the pattern rather than interpreting beyond it. Entries marked “Assessment in progress” carry recorded expiry dates — many of them, including Stake’s and Cloudbet’s, now in the past — while remaining listed in the registry. This matches the shape of Curaçao’s LOK transition, in which operators licensed under the earlier OGL wave are assessed for full licences under the new regime; a large share of the registry’s OGL-numbered entries carry the same status. What the column does establish, on the regulator’s own record: these licences exist, name the entity, and have not been moved to the enforcement register.
The “Indefinite” entries are the more notable group. Natural Nine B.V. (Shuffle), Gareton B.V. (BitStarz) and Raw Entertainment B.V. (Roobet) hold licences with no recorded expiry — the strongest status class in the document, and one that several larger competitors do not currently show.
The regulator’s old domain is dead — check your bookmarks
A practical note for anyone who verifies licences (which should be everyone, per our fake-casino checklist): the Gaming Control Board’s old gcb.cw domain no longer resolves at all. The register now lives on the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s site at cga.cw, and the seal-validation portal answers at cert.cga.cw — old certificate deep links no longer validate there, so start from the register page itself. Countless review sites, ours included until this week, still carried the dead domain; we have swapped every reference.
What this changes in our coverage
Nothing in the ratings — and that is worth stating plainly. A registry status is one dated fact among several: Stake’s thirteen-year record without a revocation and Cloudbet’s since 2013 still stand, and the register’s own disclaimer notes it “does not guarantee the current validity” of entries. What the check does change is precision: our safety pages for Stake, Shuffle, BitStarz and Cloudbet now quote the register rows verbatim with the register’s own dates, and the Anjouan licence explainer carries the re-check. We will re-read the registry on a 45-day cadence and update those pages when the status column moves. The standing, always-current version of this table — with a change log across registry editions — now lives at the crypto casino licence tracker.
Licence status can change at any time; verify against the CGA register before relying on it. Play only where it is legal for you.