Request Network Brings Pre-Transaction Wallet Screening to iGaming Crypto Payments

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14.06.2026

Request Network now checks a player's crypto wallet with Hypernative before a casino deposit moves, across seven blockchains through one integration.

A crypto wallet, a shield with a tick and a casino chip, linked by arrows.

What Request Network Announced

Request Network launched crypto payment tools for iGaming operators on 1 June 2026, with a wallet check that runs before a deposit moves.

The announcement, made from Zug in Switzerland, covers three things: one integration for stablecoin payments across seven blockchains, a gasless deposit page for players, and wallet screening supplied by Hypernative.

Trade sites iGB and NEXT.io published the release the same day.

Detail	What the release says
Announced	1 June 2026, Zug, Switzerland
Blockchains	7: Ethereum, BNB, Tron, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism
Stablecoin reach claimed	95% of global supply
Screening partner	Hypernative
Payments moved to date	More than $2 billion
Protocol running since	2017

How Does the Wallet Screening Work?

An operator that accepts crypto can have funds frozen or its wallet blacklisted if a deposit comes from a flagged source. The release says most screening today happens after the transaction, once the money already sits in the operator's wallet, and freeing frozen funds can mean long legal procedures.

Request Network moves the check to the start. The sending wallet is screened against a policy from Hypernative before any funds move, and the player can only deposit if the wallet passes.

The protocol can also store every screening result, so an operator has a record to show if it later has to defend where its funds came from.

Gal Sagie, chief executive and co-founder of Hypernative, called iGaming "one of the earliest and most natural fits for crypto payments" but said "the compliance infrastructure needed to make it work at scale has lagged." Screening before the transaction, he said, "means operators can accept funds with confidence, not just optimism."

According to the release, Hypernative has more than 300 clients and monitors over $100 billion in digital assets across more than 70 blockchains.

One Integration Across Seven Chains

Players hold stablecoins on many chains, so an operator that wanted to take them all had to run a wallet on each chain or hand payments to a processor. Request Network says one wallet and one integration now reach 95% of the global stablecoin supply, the company's own figure; the release does not say how it was measured.

The player pays with the token and chain they already hold. The operator receives the token it chose on the chain it chose, and neither side needs to know which chain the other uses.

The release is aimed at operators, white-label providers and payment service providers. It says the protocol has been built since 2017 by a community-owned Swiss foundation funded through its REQ token, and that more than $2 billion has moved through it so far.

What Changes for Players?

Paying a casino in crypto has often meant bridging, swapping and holding a gas token first, and sometimes sending a small test payment to check the address. Request Network replaces that with a payment page where a deposit works like this:

The player picks the chain and token to pay with.
The sending wallet is screened against the operator's policy.
If it passes, the deposit goes through as one gasless transaction, with any bridging or swapping done in the background.
The operator receives the stablecoin it asked for, and the screening result can be stored.

A deposit from a wallet that fails the check is refused before the money moves, so it stays in the player's wallet rather than reaching the casino and being frozen there. The page also protects payers from malicious smart contracts, the release says.

That is a different design from the checkout flows FinTelegram has reported at some offshore casinos, where a player who picks an e-wallet at the cashier ends up buying crypto instead of making a direct deposit.

Tristan Wallaert, chief executive of the Request Network Foundation, said crypto payments had been "too complex, with too many risks on both sides for money to move freely as intended."

What the Release Does Not Say

The announcement names no casino or operator using the tools, and gives no prices, only a claim that its costs are the most competitive on the market.

It also does not list what Hypernative's standard policies flag, whether an operator can tune them, or what a player is told when a wallet fails. Players at a casino that uses the screening would need to ask its support team.

Nor does it mention the EU's MiCA rules. Since 1 July 2026, operators serving EU players have had to check whether their crypto payment partners need MiCA authorisation; the release describes Request Network as a decentralised, permissionless protocol.

Operators weighing the tools will want those answers, along with how the stored screening records fit the anti-money-laundering checks they already run.

Frequently Asked Questions

On 1 June 2026 it launched crypto payment tools for casino operators: one integration for stablecoin deposits on seven blockchains, a gasless deposit page for players, and wallet screening by Hypernative that runs before a deposit moves.

It checks the wallet a deposit comes from before any funds move. If the wallet fails the operator's policy, the deposit is refused, instead of the money arriving and then being frozen.

The release lists seven: Ethereum, BNB, Tron, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism. The company says together they hold 95% of the global stablecoin supply.

The deposit does not go through and the funds stay in your wallet. The release does not say what reason, if any, the player is shown, so ask the casino's support team.

The announcement does not name any. Check a casino's payment page or ask its support team whether its crypto deposits are screened before they go through.