Read against its own help centre
Ethereum at Stake: two routes in, three Layer 2 networks ruled out
The question here is narrow: should you go to Stake with ether? The short reading is yes, provided you are happy to send on the Ethereum main network or on BNB Smart Chain, and no if you were counting on a cheaper Layer 2 route. Stake says so itself, in two places in one article.
Everything below comes from that article on the operator's help centre, read at the page source and not from a summary of it. The operator's main site refused our request, so nothing here comes from it.
Does Stake take Ethereum?
Yes, by its own statement. The help-centre article on acceptable blockchain networks carries a table of coins, and Ethereum (ETH) has a row of its own. The article opens with an instruction that coins must be sent through their corresponding blockchain networks, which is the sentence that matters most for everything after it.
Which networks does Stake list for ETH?
Two. The ETH row reads ERC20 network and BSC (BEP20) network, on separate lines of one cell. The first is the Ethereum main network: operators write ERC20 beside ETH out of habit, although ether is the native coin and not a token, and the label simply points at Ethereum. The second is BNB Smart Chain, where ether exists as a bridged token rather than as the native coin.
The same article has a block headed Networks Stake does not support. Cronos, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base are on it, together with tokens on the ERC20 and BEP20 networks. Arbitrum, Optimism and Base are the Layer 2 networks that other operators on this site accept for ether, so the cheap lane people talk about is, here, closed by name.
What the gas bill looks like on those two routes
The article states no fee, so none is claimed. What can be said is general. On the main network the price of one unit of gas is set by the protocol block by block, and a plain ether transfer uses 21,000 units, so the bill is that price times a fixed quantity, converted at the day's ether rate. On BNB Smart Chain the bill is paid in BNB, not in ether, so a wallet that holds only ether cannot send from there at all.
Choosing between the two is the only fee decision Stake leaves you, and it is a real one: it changes both the price per unit and the coin the price is paid in. The longer account of why that price moves is on the payments page.
What this page does not say
No welcome offer, wagering condition, licence reference or deposit minimum is written here. None was read from a source we can quote, and a page about gas has no use for invented ones. The cashier inside an account is the current version of every line above.
What this page says about Stake was read from Stake's help-centre article on acceptable blockchain networks. The cashier inside an account is the current version and wins wherever the two differ.
Questions about Stake and ETH
| Does Stake accept ETH on Arbitrum? | Not according to its own help centre, which lists Arbitrum among the networks it does not support. |
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| What fee does Stake state for ETH deposits? | Its network article states none. The gas for the transfer is charged by your own wallet. |
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