We Read All 660 Entries in Curaçao's Gaming Register

TL;DR

Curaçao's online gaming register, in the edition dated 22 July 2026, listed 660 licences. We read every entry. 261 of them — 39.5% — showed an expiry date that had already passed on the edition's own date, while the register marked them neither expired nor revoked. Fifteen days later we read the new edition end to end. Still 660 rows — but 88 of them had changed status: 83 that carried no status in July now read “Assessment in progress”, four that were in assessment are now revoked, and one moved back the other way. Eight of the operators we track appear in the register; all eight licence numbers check out, character for character.

Update, 20 September 2026: the edition dated 16 September, still the latest on 20 September, lists 663 entries, and 275 of them (41.5%) were past their printed expiry date on that date without being marked expired or revoked. One of the eight operators we track, Rollbit, now names an Anjouan licence in its terms. Details below.

Update — 20 September 2026: the edition dated 16 September

We read the register again: seven further editions, dated 27 and 31 August and 3, 8, 10, 14 and 16 September 2026, each end to end.

275 entries — 41.5% — were past their printed expiry date on 16 September 2026, the edition's own date, while the register marked them neither expired nor revoked: 272 in “Assessment in progress” and 3 with a blank status. Measured the same way, the 6 August edition had 272 such entries (41.2%).

One thing we said about July no longer holds. On 22 July every “Assessment in progress” entry was past its printed date. On 16 September, 9 of the 281 are not. We now count past-date entries row by row.

28 entries moved from “Assessment in progress” to “Expired” in a single edition, dated 8 September. Across the whole span, 75 entries changed status between 6 August and 16 September: 29 from assessment to expired, 26 from blank to assessment, 14 from assessment to indefinite, 3 from assessment to revoked, and one each from blank to revoked, from indefinite to revoked, and from expired back to indefinite. We match entries on the licence number together with the company registration number, because one licence number is printed against two companies.

The register is not strictly cumulative. OGL/2024/1790/1174, Novatech Solutions N.V., listed as “Assessment in progress” in the edition dated 10 September, is absent from the edition dated 14 September. The regulator also amends dates it has already printed: between the editions dated 14 and 16 September, the expiry date of Goldgrid N.V (CGA/2025/2703/1357) and Ezugi N.V. (CGA/2025/850/1298) changed from 7 March 2026 to 7 March 2027.

37 entries now carry CGA/ numbers (33 on 6 August), including the first of a CGA/2026 series: Bettingspoon B.V., CGA/2026/2751/1370, first listed on 31 August. From the edition dated 8 September the PDF runs to 28 pages. OGL/2024/1397/0784 is still the only licence number printed twice; the other 661 are unique, and Olympus Holdings N.V.'s entry under it reads “Indefinite” since 3 September.

The eight operators. Seven of the eight entries are unchanged in every field. Stake and Cloudbet remain in assessment with printed dates in the past, so both are among the 275. Rollbit's entry — OGL/2024/1260/0494, Bull Gaming N.V. — is still listed, but its status reads “Expired” from the edition dated 8 September. Rollbit's terms, as we read them on 16 September 2026, name Acacia Tech Ltd as the operator, and the Anjouan Gaming register lists Acacia Tech Ltd under licence ALSI-042308006-FII with an expiry date of 20 August 2027. The Curaçao licence number and the registration number 157086 no longer appear in those terms. Our Rollbit profile now shows the Anjouan licence.

As before, we state what the register prints. What a status means for an individual licence holder is a question for the regulator.

Method: each edition's PDF text layer was extracted and parsed row by row; a second extractor and an independent parser agree on every figure in this update.

What we did

The Curaçao Gaming Authority publishes its Online Gaming License Registry as a PDF — 26 pages in the edition dated 6 August, 28 from 8 September — linked from a single page on cga.cw. It is a public document that almost nobody reads end to end, because reading it end to end means extracting a table out of a PDF.

We extracted it. Twice: the edition dated 22 July 2026 (660 rows, read 26–28 July) and the edition dated 6 August 2026 (660 rows, read 8 August). Every row carries the same seven columns the register defines: licence number, licensee, company type, company registration number, issued date, expiry date, and status.

Method note: the July counts were made row by row, by hand, in two passes. The August counts were machine-extracted from the PDF's text layer and verified by two independent counting methods that agree exactly.

What the register said on 22 July

Two numbers carry the story.

261 entries showed an expiry date already in the past on 22 July 2026, the date the edition itself carries. That is 224 marked “Assessment in progress” plus 37 with a blank status field. None of them was marked expired. None was marked revoked. Four out of every ten licences in the register were past the date the register itself printed next to them. The count moves with the date you measure against — 261 on the edition's own date, 267 by the day we finished reading it — so we state the date: 22 July 2026.

193 entries had no expiry date at all. The column says N/A and the status says Indefinite. Just under a third of the register had no stated end.

Does a passed date mean those operators are unlicensed?

No, and we are not going to say that it does.

“Assessment in progress” most likely refers to Curaçao's transition to its new licensing regime under the LOK, in force since November 2023: holders of older permissions apply for a licence under the new law, and a pending assessment may lawfully extend the permission past the printed date. We have not confirmed that reading — confirming it would take an answer from the regulator, and we will seek one.

So the finding is stated exactly as far as the evidence goes: the edition dated 22 July 2026 showed 261 entries whose printed expiry date had passed by the edition's own date and whose status is neither expired nor revoked. What that means for any individual licence holder is a question for the regulator.

This is the difference between reading a register and interpreting one. We did the first.

Fifteen days later, we read it again

Registers move. Between our two reads, the register went through at least one intermediate edition — the 29 July edition, which holds 660 rows like the other two. Same total, different register:

Matched row by row on the licence number, 88 entries changed status: 83 that carried no status in July now read “Assessment in progress”, four that had been in assessment are now revoked, and one moved from assessment back to a blank status. The four revocations came out of assessment, not out of the blank column. The transition is visibly being processed, edition by edition.

Two more things changed. By 6 August, 33 entries carried licence numbers in a new format — CGA/… instead of OGL/… — the first grants numbered under the new regime's own series. And the revocation entries now spell out their reason verbatim; the most common wording is “Revoked as of {date}, at the request of the operator.”

One licence number, two companies

Row 349 of the 6 August edition: OGL/2024/1397/0784, Grrr Tech B.V., company type B2B, registration number 166739. Row 355 of the same edition: OGL/2024/1397/0784 — the same licence number — Olympus Holdings N.V., company type B2C, registration number 161166.

One number, two different companies, two different registration numbers, two different licence types. We do not know whether this is a typo or two permissions genuinely sharing a number, and the register does not say. We record what the document prints. In that edition it is the only licence number that appears twice; the other 658 are unique.

Eight operators we track, checked character for character

On 6 August, eight operators in our catalogue published Curaçao licence numbers that we held on file. We checked each against the 6 August edition. All eight were in the register, and every field matched our records exactly.

Three of these — Stake, Rollbit, Roobet — we had already checked in the 22 July edition. Fifteen days later their rows are unchanged, character for character. That is worth saying plainly, because it is the outcome we found, not the one that makes a better headline.

In the 6 August edition, three of the eight — Stake, Rollbit and Cloudbet — were in assessment with printed expiry dates already past.

The number that is not a licence number

While checking, we confirmed something that trips up almost every list of “crypto casino licences” published elsewhere.

When we checked in August, Rollbit's site showed 157086; its terms no longer do (see the update above). Roobet's shows 157205. These are company registration numbers, not licence numbers — the register has a separate column for each, and the two sit side by side. A number lifted from a website footer and labelled “licence” is, more often than we expected, the company's registration in the commercial register.

We had this wrong ourselves earlier and corrected it. The correction is in our public log.

What we are doing with this

Every licence claim on an operator profile now shows where the number came from. When we have confirmed it against the regulator's own register, the profile says so, names the source and gives the date we read it. When we only have the operator's word for it, the profile says that instead.

That distinction is the whole product, and this register is why it exists.

Correction — 23 August 2026

This page was corrected after an external fact-check. The regulator's PDFs were downloaded again and re-extracted on 23 August 2026. In the edition dated 22 July the register holds 170 entries with a blank status, not 172, and 41 revocations, not 39 — the register's own text misspells one of them as “Reoked” and prints two revocation dates without a space, which is how a hand count loses them. The count of entries whose printed expiry date had already passed is 261 measured against the edition's own date; the previous figure of 263 was measured against no stated date at all. In the edition dated 6 August the figures are 88 blank, 302 in assessment and 45 revoked. Matched row by row on the licence number, 88 entries changed status between the two editions, and the four new revocations came out of assessment rather than out of the blank column, which this page had the other way round. The 29 July edition holds 660 rows; this page said 637. The totals, the Assessment, Indefinite and Expired counts and the eight-operator table were re-checked against the same PDFs and stand unchanged.

Addendum — 20 September 2026: after this correction, the page's search description still carried the superseded figure of 263. It now carries the figures of the edition dated 16 September.

Sources

• Curaçao Gaming Authority — Online Gaming License Registry, edition dated 22 July 2026 (PDF, 25 pages). Read in full 26–28 July 2026, re-read 23 August 2026.

• Same registry, edition dated 6 August 2026 (PDF, 26 pages). Read in full 8 August 2026, re-read 23 August 2026.

• Same registry, edition dated 29 July 2026 (PDF, 25 pages, 660 rows). Read in full 23 August 2026.

• Curaçao Gaming Authority — License register index page (cga.cw). Read 8 August 2026.

• Operator sites for published licence numbers. Read 25 July – 8 August 2026.

• Same registry, editions dated 27 and 31 August and 3, 8, 10, 14 and 16 September 2026 (PDF; 26 pages to 3 September, 28 pages from 8 September). Read in full 17 September 2026.

• Anjouan Gaming — licence register (anjouangaming.com/license-register). Read 16–17 September 2026.

• Rollbit — terms and conditions (rollbit.com). Read 16 September 2026.