BlockBet Sister Sites

Short answer: BlockBet has one confirmed sister site — Vera (vera.game) — and both run off the same offshore company and the same single gambling licence. BlockBet is not licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. It is a crypto casino and sportsbook operated from Costa Rica under a licence from Anjouan, a small island jurisdiction in the Comoros, and it takes UK players from outside the UK system rather than under it. If you are weighing it up, the ownership is the part worth understanding first, because it decides what protection you do — and mostly don't — have.

BlockBet names its operator in its own footer, and the licence it claims genuinely checks out on the regulator's public register. That already puts it ahead of a lot of offshore brands, so it is worth taking in order: who runs it, what is actually verifiable, the one real sister, and then the risks that matter if you are playing from the UK.

Who runs BlockBet

BlockBet's own site states that "Blockbet.gg is owned and operated by 3-102-953229 Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada," a company registered in Costa Rica (registration number 3-102-953229) at an address in Escazú, San José. The name is not a mistake: in Costa Rica a company can be registered under its own tax-ID number, so "3-102-953229 S.R.L." is the legal entity itself — a bare holding company rather than a trading brand. In plain terms, the business you would be contracting with is a Costa Rican shell with a thin public paper trail: no long corporate history, no published group, nothing we could inspect beyond the number.

The gambling licence sits somewhere else again. BlockBet's footer says it is "licensed and regulated by the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros" under licence number ALSI-202603013-FI1 — and that one is checkable. The Anjouan Gaming Authority's public register lists licence ALSI-202603013-FI1 as Valid, a B2C licence held by 3-102-953229 SRL, issued 14 March 2026 and due to expire 13 March 2027, covering the domains blockbetgg.com, blockbet.gg and vera.game. So the company and the licence match across the operator's own disclosure and the regulator's record. That is a real tick, as far as it goes.

How far it goes is the catch. An Anjouan licence is light-touch offshore regulation. It is not a UK Gambling Commission licence, and BlockBet does not hold one — nothing on the UKGC register attaches to this operator. Anything you read describing BlockBet as "fully regulated" is pointing at Anjouan, not Britain, and the two are not remotely comparable in what they demand of an operator or what they give a player to fall back on.

The one real sister — and the one it is easy to confuse

Most sister-site lists for offshore brands are guesswork: an affiliate's "similar casinos" widget dressed up as ownership. Here we can do better, because the licence record names the family outright. The same company (3-102-953229 SRL) and the same licence (ALSI-202603013-FI1) cover three domains. Two of them — blockbetgg.com and blockbet.gg — are just BlockBet itself on different addresses. The third, vera.game, is a separate brand: a Portuguese-language, Brazil-facing crypto casino trading as Vera. That makes Vera a genuine sister — same operator, same licence, confirmed on the regulator's own register rather than inferred from a lookalike lobby.

One caution, because searchers hit it constantly: a similarly named brand, BlockBets — with an "s" — is a different casino run by a different Costa Rican company, and it is not a sister of BlockBet despite the near-identical name. Third-party trackers report that BlockBets stopped operating in early 2026; we have not confirmed that on a regulator record, so treat it as a name-clash to steer around rather than part of this family.

Beyond Vera, we found no other casino we can tie to this operator from a primary source. It is common for the people behind one offshore shell to run more brands through separate companies, but neither the Anjouan register nor BlockBet's own site lets us prove that here — so we are not going to pad the list with casinos we cannot stand behind.

What this means for a UK player — the risks first

No UK complaints route and no UK fund protection

With no UKGC licence, you have no access to the UK's independent dispute-resolution service, and no Gambling Commission to escalate to if a withdrawal is refused or an account is frozen. Your recourse is the operator itself and, in theory, a regulator on another continent working to a far lighter standard. There is also no UK requirement here to keep player balances separated and protected, so money sitting in your account does not carry the protections a UK-licensed site would owe you.

Self-exclusion does not reach it

BlockBet sits outside the national online self-exclusion scheme, which only covers UK-licensed operators. If you have self-excluded through that scheme to take a break, it will not block BlockBet — the site is simply beyond its reach. That is a gap, not a perk: if you are relying on self-exclusion to protect yourself, an offshore casino that your exclusion cannot touch is exactly what that tool is meant to shield you from. For a break that actually holds, the scheme plus GamCare's tools are the route, and BlockBet is not part of either.

Limits are per-account, and offshore terms run heavier

Any deposit limit you set applies to that one account only. It does not travel between brands, so a limit on BlockBet does nothing on Vera or anywhere else. Offshore bonus terms also tend to be tougher than UK norms — larger wagering requirements, withdrawal caps and game restrictions are common — and because this is a crypto casino, depositing in volatile coins stacks another risk on top. We are not quoting specific bonus percentages or RTP figures, because they shift and the numbers repeated across review sites are unverified; read BlockBet's current terms in full before you act on any offer.

The honest verdict

If your aim is simply to play with money you can afford to lose and keep some protection if things go wrong, a UK Gambling Commission-licensed site is the safer choice, and it is not a close call. There you keep a real complaints route, rules on how your funds are held, mandatory safer-gambling tools and a self-exclusion scheme that genuinely works. BlockBet's licence is real and its ownership is more open than most of its offshore peers — but "more open than most offshore casinos" is a low bar, and none of it stands in for UK protection. If you have already self-excluded, the fact that BlockBet would still let you through the door is the clearest reason to stay with UK-licensed sites rather than look for a way past your own limits.

18+. Please gamble responsibly. If gambling stops being fun, the National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0808 8020 133 (GamCare); the national online self-exclusion scheme covers every UK-licensed online operator at once. See our responsible gambling page for the full set of tools.