Moon.com vs Stake: what's actually different

Moon.com and Stake are different products for different bets. Stake is a crypto casino and sportsbook that has been running since 2017. Moon.com launched in late August 2026 and does one thing brilliantly: you pick an asset, bet Up or Down on its price, and choose leverage from 1x to 1000x, around the clock, with a free play-money mode to learn on. Press coverage of the launch reported that the Stake founders’ company, Easygo, is behind Moon; moon.com itself doesn’t say so, and the two sites run as separate entities with separate accounts. If you want slots, blackjack or a Premier League bet, that’s Stake. If you want to bet on Bitcoin’s next move with $100 controlling $100,000, that’s Moon, and signing up through our link puts you on Moon’s VIP track with rakeback on fees from day one.

Quick verdict table

Everything in the Moon column comes from moon.com, its help center or its terms of service. The Stake column sticks to widely reported basics; this site is about Moon, and we don’t review Stake’s bonuses, fees or games.

Is Moon.com owned by Stake?

Short answer: it has been reported, not confirmed.

What’s confirmed. Moon.com is operated by Moon International Limited, incorporated in the Union of the Comoros (registration 16151), with a registered office on Anjouan. That is what Moon’s terms of service say, and it is the only ownership statement on the site. The terms do not mention Easygo, Stake, Ed Craven or Bijan Tehrani. Moon’s terms also do not publish a licence number; a third-party review reports an Anjouan gaming licence, which we have not independently verified. Moon’s official X account is @getonmoon.

What’s reported. Coverage of Moon’s launch on 25 to 26 August 2026 (DomainGang and gamblinglore among others) reported that the project comes from Easygo, the company behind Stake, citing LinkedIn postings by people involved. Stake itself was launched in 2017 by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani through Easygo. The connection is plausible: the same founding team building a second product on a premium domain fits how they’ve operated before. But “plausible and reported” is not the same as “stated by the company,” and Moon has chosen not to say it on its own site.

What that means for you. If the reports are right, Moon has experienced operators behind it, which is relevant to questions like whether withdrawals get paid. Either way, the entity you contract with is Moon International Limited, not Stake or any Stake entity, and Moon’s terms, not Stake’s, govern your money. The Moon.com review goes further on the trust question.

A warning while we’re here: there is at least one unrelated domain that combines “moon” and “stake” in its name and has been flagged as a scam. Moon.com is at moon.com. Don’t sign up anywhere that puts the two words together.

What’s actually different

Ownership is the question people search for. The product difference is the one that matters.

Casino and sports vs price direction with leverage

On Stake you bet on outcomes with a defined end: the roulette wheel stops, the match finishes, the dice land. Each bet has a known payout if it wins and a known loss if it doesn’t, and it resolves when the event resolves. Slots, table games and Stake’s originals sit on a house edge that is fixed per game; the sportsbook sits on a margin built into the odds.

On Moon you bet on which way a price goes, and the bet has no natural end. It stays open until you close it, until Moon’s limits close it, or until the price moves against you by enough to consume your stake, at which point it is liquidated. The payout isn’t fixed in advance; it’s whatever the price move is, multiplied by your leverage. A 2% move at 10x pays 20% of your stake. A 0.05% move at 1000x pays 50%. The how-it-works guide walks through three examples with real fee deductions.

The leverage is the difference in kind, not just degree. Stake has no equivalent. A $100 bet on Stake is a $100 bet. A $100 bet on Moon at 1000x is a $100,000 position that can be closed by a 0.1% move.

Sportsbook odds vs leverage + spread + fees

The house edge on a sportsbook is visible in the odds. If you know what to look for, you can read the margin off a betting line before you place a bet.

Moon’s edge is spread across four things, and only two of them are published as numbers:

1. Spread. Moon’s terms reserve “a spread or other pricing edge in Moon’s favour”. Its size isn’t disclosed.
2. Opening fee. 1% of your stake, charged when the bet opens. Same dollar amount whether you pick 1x or 1000x.
3. Holding fee. Assessed every 8 hours the bet stays open, at a dynamic rate Moon doesn’t publish.
4. Performance fee. A minimum of 10% of realized profit on winning bets; nothing on losers.

So where a sportsbook charges you once, through the odds, Moon charges you on entry, over time, on exit and in the price. On a quick 10x bet that catches a decent move, the fees are a modest haircut. On a high-leverage bet, the undisclosed spread eats part of an already tiny liquidation buffer before the price has moved. The leverage page has a calculator that shows how this plays out at every tier.

Depth vs breadth

Stake’s offer is wide: hundreds of games, most sports, a lot of markets. Moon’s is focused: at fetch time, five visible assets (BTC, ETH, SOL, AAPL, TSLA) and one type of bet, done well. Moon’s homepage says crypto, stocks, futures and commodities, so the list will likely grow, and the mechanic stays the same.

Who should use which

Stake fits someone who wants variety, understands casino house edges and sportsbook margins, and prefers bets that resolve on a known schedule. The loss on any bet is the stake, and it takes as long as the game or the match takes.

Moon fits someone who already follows crypto or stock prices, wants to express a short-term directional view, and likes that leverage turns a small move into a large result. It also fits people who want the 1000x rush on price noise; Moon’s public feed and leaderboard are built for exactly that, and the risk section on the leverage page is the ten-minute read that keeps it fun.

Availability is separate for each: Moon applies its own list of 43 restricted jurisdictions (the FAQ has it), and Stake has its own list under its own terms.

Two things to know about Moon before you fund it: deposits are crypto only, and KYC comes before the first deposit. There’s no welcome bonus yet; what our link gets you is the VIP track and rakeback on fees, covered on the promo code page.

Can you use the same account?

No. Moon and Stake are separate products run by separate legal entities, and nothing on either site suggests shared logins, shared balances or shared verification.

To use Moon you register on moon.com, complete Moon’s KYC (government ID front and back plus proof of address) and deposit cryptocurrency into a Moon wallet. Any verification you’ve done elsewhere doesn’t transfer. Any balance you hold elsewhere doesn’t transfer. Rakeback on Moon is Moon’s own program: 3.5% of fees, activated through approved affiliates and streamers or at Bronze VIP, with wagering requirements attached to bonus funds.

If a site or a message offers you a way to “link” a Stake account to Moon or move funds between them, treat it as a phishing attempt. The two real sites don’t offer that.

Risk comparison: same loss, different speed

Both let you lose your entire stake on a single bet. The difference is how the loss arrives.

A casino bet loses your stake when the game resolves. You know the odds going in, the outcome is random within those odds, and the bet takes as long as the game takes. A sportsbook bet is similar, on a longer timescale.

A 1x Moon bet loses your stake only if the asset goes to zero. In practice, a 1x bet is about the spread and the holding fee, not about liquidation.

A 1000x Moon bet loses your stake on a price move of about 0.1% against you (before the spread, which tightens the trigger), and that move can happen in the seconds after you open. The outcome is the same as a lost casino bet: the stake is gone. The process is different in three ways that matter.

• Speed. A slot spin takes seconds by design. A 1000x bet can be over in seconds by accident, on a move that had nothing to do with your reasoning. The live page shows Moon’s biggest open positions with how far each one is from liquidation, which makes that speed visible.
• Skill. Nobody thinks they can predict a roulette wheel. At 10x on Bitcoin a good read has time to pay. At 1000x the bet is decided by the next few ticks, so it’s a coin flip that looks like a chart.
• Fee visibility. A casino’s edge is in the game. Moon’s edge is in a spread it doesn’t publish plus three fees, one of which (the holding fee) is charged at an unpublished rate.

Where does that leave the comparison? Stake and Moon are reported to share founders, and if that’s right they share a philosophy: crypto-native, browser-first, built around a public feed of other people’s bets. But the products are different animals. One is a broad gambling venue with fixed-odds bets that resolve on their own. The other is a single, focused, leveraged bet on price direction that turns any asset into a 24/7 market. Read the full review before you fund either, and if it’s Moon, start with play money.