How Stake’s Plinko Quietly Became a $70 Billion Casino Phenomenon

Sometimes, the simplest ideas become the most successful.

When Stake co-founder Eddie Craven shared a post on X revealing that more than $70 billion has been wagered on Stake’s Plinko since its launch in 2017, it stopped us in our tracks. Even more astonishing was the second figure: over 42.5 billion individual bets have been placed on the game during that time.

Eddie went on to suggest those numbers would likely be at least double once Plinko variants across competing crypto casinos and game providers are taken into account.

For a game that revolves around nothing more than dropping a ball through a field of pegs, those statistics are extraordinary.

Yet, anyone who has spent time in a crypto casino probably isn’t surprised.

Plinko has quietly evolved from one of Stake’s original in-house games into one of the most recognisable casino titles on the internet, spawning countless imitators and becoming a staple of gambling streams watched by millions of viewers every mo...