Tether at Stake: five named networks and a list of refused ones
Stake is the only operator among the twelve that publishes two lists about networks: the ones it accepts for each coin, and a short list of the ones it does not support. For Tether the accepted list has five entries. The refusal list matters as much, because several of the networks it turns away are places where Tether is commonly held.
The short answer to whether Stake is worth approaching with Tether is yes, provided your Tether is on one of the five. The rest of this page is about which, and about reading the refusal list without reading too much into it.
The five networks in Stake's table
That is the row exactly as the page prints it, with the five networks stacked inside one cell. The stacking is the reason the row is easy to misquote: a reading that shows only the first lines of the cell stops at BEP20 and makes Stake look as if it lacks Tron and Solana. It does not lack them.
Tether (USDT): ERC20 network / BSC (BEP20) network / Polygon network / TRX - Tron (TRC20) / SOL - Solana
Five networks, three distinct address shapes. ERC20, BSC and Polygon all use the 0x form with forty hexadecimal characters, Tron addresses begin with T, and Solana addresses have no prefix. A reader choosing between the first three cannot rely on the look of the address to tell which one is open on screen.
Networks Stake turns away
Under its own heading the article lists networks Stake does not support: Cronos via the Cronos network, Arbitrum, Optimism, tokens on the ERC20 network, tokens on the BEP20 network, and Base. Tether is issued on Arbitrum, Optimism and Base too, so a reader whose wallet or exchange offers Tether on one of those will find a network on the sending side that Stake has said it will not take.
It's important that you send coins through their corresponding blockchain networks.
A careful reading has one wrinkle. The refusal list includes the line about tokens on ERC20 while the Tether row lists ERC20 as accepted. Read together, the table is Stake's statement about Tether and the refusal line seems to be aimed at tokens other than those in the table. The page does not say so in those words, so that is our reading, not its claim.
Choosing among the five
The decision is less about Stake than about what you can send from. An exchange withdrawal screen offers a fixed set of Tether networks; a self-custody wallet offers the networks it was built for. The route is whichever of the five also appears on the sending side, and when more than one qualifies, the deciding factor is usually the small balance of the chain's own token needed to pay the transfer fee.
If you hold coins on Tron, you need a little TRX to move Tether there. On Solana the fee is paid in SOL, on Polygon in POL, on BSC in BNB, on Ethereum in ETH. Stake's page does not discuss fees, and none of that is attributed to it.
Is Stake worth approaching with Tether?
Yes for readers on one of the five networks. The operator has put its network statement in a help article that anyone can open, and the refusal list is the clearest warning we found at any operator that a network which exists for a coin is not necessarily a network the casino will accept.
A note on sourcing: the main stake.com pages answered us with an access refusal, so everything here is from the help centre only. We did not read Stake's own deposit screen.
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Questions about Stake and Tether
Which networks does Stake accept for USDT?
Five, according to its help article: ERC20, BSC (BEP20), Polygon, TRX - Tron (TRC20) and SOL - Solana.
Does Stake accept Tether on Arbitrum, Optimism or Base?
Its article lists Arbitrum, Optimism and Base among the networks it does not support.
Does Stake say what happens if the wrong network is used?
The article tells readers to send coins through the corresponding network and to use only supported coins. In the text we read it does not spell out consequences.
