A platform shows you an audit badge and a licence seal in the same footer, and both read as reassurance. They are not the same reassurance, they come from different bodies, and on the day something goes wrong only one of them gives you anywhere to go.
Here is what each actually covers.
Three Assurances, Three Scopes
Crypto casinos carry up to three separate credentials, and they are routinely blurred into one.
Smart contract audit
Gambling licence
Game testing
Who issues it
Firms such as CertiK, Pessimistic
A regulator
Labs such as eCOGRA, BMM, GLI
What it examines
Contract logic
Operator behaviour
Whether games perform as specified
Point in time or ongoing
A code state, on a date
Ongoing, with conditions
Periodic recertification
If it fails you
No remedy
A complaint route
Referral to the regulator
What it never covers
Whether you get paid
Whether the code is sound
Whether the operator honours terms
Read the bottom row across. Each credential has
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