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Adin Ross's Stake Deal: What It Was Worth, Rainbet, Kick and Lawsuits

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Adin Ross's Stake contract was never made public. The best evidence is a blockchain analysis by Bloomberg Businessweek, which traced at least 26,000 ETH, about $78 million, from Stake to wallets linked to him between November 2021 and March 2025. After he was named in a 2025 lawsuit, he moved his crypto gambling to a rival casino, Rainbet, in a deal Bloomberg put at $100 million.

I'm Andy. I was a gambling addict from 18 to my mid-20s and built up roughly $100,000 of debt. I've worked in marketing for over a decade, and I've turned down gambling sponsorships as a small creator. Nobody pays me to write this, and there are no casino links or codes on this page.

How much was Adin Ross's Stake deal worth?

Nobody outside the deal knows the contract terms, but the blockchain points to about $78 million over three and a half years. Neither Ross nor Stake has confirmed a figure.

  • 2022: during a March 2022 stream, Ross accidentally showed a Discord chat with Stake. Dexerto reported his wallet showed payments of 335 ETH a week, about $995,000 at the time.
  • 2021 to 2025: Bloomberg Businessweek matched wallet addresses identified as Stake's with addresses linked to Ross that had leaked online. It found at least 26,000 ETH sent to him from November 2021 to March 2025, worth about $78 million at the time of each transfer.

Bloomberg was careful to say the size of his deal is unknown. Those are transfers, not profit, and nobody outside the deal knows how much of that money was gambled.

Did Adin Ross leave Stake for Rainbet?

Yes. According to Bloomberg, after Ross was named as a defendant in a California lawsuit filed in August 2025, he switched sponsors and signed with Rainbet, another crypto casino, for $100 million. I couldn't find Rainbet confirming that figure.

Did Stake drop him, or did he walk away? That hasn't been made public.

What's odd is where he streams. Writing in February 2026, Bloomberg still called him Kick's most popular American influencer, and Kick was founded by Stake's co-founders. So a Rainbet-sponsored streamer builds his audience on a Stake-linked platform. More on that in is Kick a gambling site? and in my Rainbet review.

Does Adin Ross own part of Kick?

He says he does, but the size of any stake has never been made public. In June 2023, Ross posted on an alternate X account that he owns a percentage of Kick, Dexerto reported. In February 2024, on a stream with Ross, Trainwreck said "Look at us now, literal equity owners" (Dexerto). Neither gave a percentage, and I couldn't find Kick confirming either claim.

His Kick streaming contract is also undisclosed. When he signed in early 2023 after his Twitch ban, he called it the "biggest streaming deal" of any creator as far as he knew, and both he and Trainwreck denied a rumoured $150 million over two years (Dexerto).

Does Adin Ross gamble with his own money or Stake's?

It isn't publicly known. Several lawsuits allege he used Stake's "house money." He has rejected the claims, and his representative told Bloomberg he expects to be dismissed from the suits.

Bloomberg spoke to three former Easygo employees and three people who work on Stake contracts, who said certain streamers gamble with house money. Bloomberg didn't name Ross as one of them. It noted that some of the lawsuits make that allegation about him and Drake. When the first lawsuit landed in October 2025, Ross brushed it off on stream and told viewers to read the case themselves (Complex, clip on X).

Bloomberg also looked at his win rate. Across 15 of his streams, it found one big win (1,000x the bet or more) on a game made by Stake's parent company, Easygo: $52,000 on a $5,000 bonus buy on Stake.us in July 2025, on a game Stake co-founder Ed Craven had encouraged him to play. That was one win in about 2,000 estimated spins, and Bloomberg said the average streamer in its analysis would have needed about five times as many spins. One win is a tiny sample, so I wouldn't read much into it. Stake told Bloomberg its findings were wrong and that big wins are an arbitrary measure.

The Adin Ross Stake lawsuits, explained

Ross is named in at least five suits over Stake and its US site, Stake.us, most of them proposed class actions. As of November 2026, none has been decided against him or dismissed, as far as I can find, and the Virginia case is paused. Everything below is an allegation, not a finding.

  • California (August 2025). Bloomberg Businessweek reported a suit filed in California in August 2025 that names both Drake and Adin Ross. A representative for Ross told Bloomberg he was confident the court would dismiss him. I couldn't find a reported ruling on the claims against either of them.
  • Missouri (filed October 27, 2025). Justin Killham, a Stake.us player, filed a proposed class action in Jackson County Circuit Court against Stake, Drake and Ross, Dexerto reported. The suit alleges Stake.us is illegal gambling and that Drake's and Ross's big bets use Stake's money, so their posted losses work as marketing (ABC News). Stake denied the allegations and said it would defend them. I found no ruling.
  • New Mexico (October 2025). Nathaniel Torres and Rory Michie sued Drake, Ross and Stake.us's operator, Sweepsteaks Limited, with similar house-money allegations (Complex). Drake said in a court declaration that he never targeted his Stake.us content at New Mexico, and his and Ross's lawyers have argued the claims belong in arbitration. As of mid-August 2026 the federal case was on hold with no ruling on the merits, AllHipHop reported, citing a joint court filing.
  • Virginia (filed December 31, 2025). LaShawnna Ridley and Tiffany Hines filed a proposed class action in federal court in Virginia under the federal racketeering law (RICO). It alleges money moved through Stake's tipping feature helped pay for bots that inflated Drake's music streams, Billboard reported. On July 30, 2026, Judge Leonie Brinkema sent the plaintiffs' claims against Stake to arbitration and paused the rest of the case, including the claims against Drake and Ross, until the arbitration is done, Rolling Stone reported. She didn't rule on whether any of the allegations are true, and the docket showed Drake and Ross hadn't been served. Stake called it a nonsense claim and said Stake.us has no tipping feature that could be used that way (Music Business Worldwide).
  • New Jersey (filed April 22, 2026). Jason Nufio sued Drake, Ross, DJ Akademiks and Stake.us. The suit alleges the promotions hid that Drake and Ross faced no real financial risk, and repeats the stream-inflation claim (Complex). I found no ruling.

The question underneath all of these suits: is Stake.us legal?

How much has Adin Ross lost gambling?

There's no reliable figure. Numbers he's thrown out on stream can't be checked. And since nobody outside his deals knows whose money was on screen, on-stream losses wouldn't tell you much anyway.

The closest thing to a reflection came in October 2024, when he said building his streams around gambling was holding him back and asked why he was putting money into slots instead of content (Dexerto). His reason was content, not his viewers. By 2026 he had a new casino sponsor.

Same goes for Adin Ross's net worth: no reliable number is public. Net-worth sites guess. The reported payments above are before tax, staff and whatever was gambled.

And if you searched for an Adin Ross Stake code: there isn't one here. Here's why I don't share Stake promo codes, and the same goes for Stake.us codes.

What this deal is really selling

This is my opinion. The product isn't Ross's gambling. It's the clip.

Bloomberg reported that Craven told Ross on a livestream to "get those clips viral." That three-day Stake.us session averaged more than 55,000 viewers. The clip travels. The hours of losing, and whose money was on the table, don't.

In 2024 I documented more than 1,200 posts on X stamped with Stake's logo with no clear disclosure. When you can't tell it's an ad, you don't watch it like one. I wrote more about that in how casinos use influencers.

Bloomberg reported that Stake's win-focused social media strategy has attracted adults and minors alike. But think about what roughly $78 million buys. In my view, casinos don't pay that for entertainment. They pay it because viewers sign up, and enough of them keep losing to cover it many times over.

Switching to Rainbet didn't change that. Different logo, same pitch.

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How much was Adin Ross's Stake deal worth?

The contract was never published. Bloomberg Businessweek's 2026 blockchain analysis found at least 26,000 ETH, about $78 million, sent from Stake to wallets linked to Ross between November 2021 and March 2025. A 2022 stream leak reported by Dexerto pointed to about $995,000 a week. Neither Ross nor Stake has confirmed a figure.

Did Adin Ross leave Stake?

Yes. Bloomberg reported that after Ross was named in a California lawsuit filed in August 2025, he switched sponsors to the crypto casino Rainbet for $100 million. Rainbet hasn't confirmed that figure, as far as I can find. Whether Stake ended the deal or he left has not been made public.

Does Adin Ross own part of Kick?

He has said so. In June 2023 Ross posted that he owns a percentage of Kick, according to Dexerto. The size of that stake has never been disclosed, and Kick hasn't confirmed it. The value of his Kick streaming contract is also unknown. Kick was founded by Stake's co-founders.

Is Adin Ross being sued over Stake?

Yes. He's named in suits over Stake and Stake.us filed in California, Missouri, New Mexico, Virginia and New Jersey, which allege illegal gambling and that he used house money. These are allegations. As of November 2026 none has been decided against him, and the Virginia case was paused for arbitration in July 2026.

Does Adin Ross gamble with his own money?

It isn't publicly known. Lawsuits allege he and Drake gambled with Stake's money while presenting it as their own. Ross rejected the first suit on stream, and his representative told Bloomberg he expects to be dismissed. No court has ruled on the house-money claim.

What is Adin Ross's net worth?

No reliable figure is public, and net-worth sites guess. What has been reported: Bloomberg traced about $78 million in crypto from Stake to wallets linked to him from 2021 to 2025, and reported a $100 million Rainbet deal. Those are gross payments, before tax, staff and gambling.

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