Rainbet Vermont searches sit on top of a genuine coincidence. 2023 is the year Governor Phil Scott signed Vermont's first sports betting law. 2023 is also the year Rainbet came online and wrote the United States out of its Terms of Service entirely. The two events never touched each other — one state building a small, deliberate betting market, one crypto casino closing its door to an entire country — but they share a start date, and Vermont's market has kept growing in the three years since while Rainbet's policy hasn't moved an inch.

2023: Two Unrelated Stories Start

On June 14, 2023, Vermont enacted Act 63 (H.127), handing licensing authority for online sports betting to the Department of Liquor and Lottery and capping the field at six operators. That same year, Rainbet launched with a Terms of Service naming the entire United States an excluded jurisdiction — not a Vermont-specific decision, just the default applied to all fifty states plus DC. Neither development had any reason to reference the other, and neither did.

2024: Vermont Picks Three, Rainbet Stays Closed

Vermont's Board of Liquor and Lottery ran a selection process rather than open registration, and on December 13, 2023 it chose just three of the six available slots: DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Sportsbook. All three launched together on January 11, 2024. BetMGM and ESPN Bet both applied for one of the remaining spots and didn't get approved. Rainbet, on the other side of that same calendar year, simply kept operating under the policy it launched with — there was no license category in Act 63 an offshore crypto operator could have applied through even if it had wanted to.

Is Rainbet legal in Vermont? No, on both counts. Rainbet's exclusion is a blanket US policy, not a Vermont decision, and Vermont's own law only licenses the three operators the state selected directly. Neither side of this coincidence changes the other.

2026: Three of Six, Still

As of August 2026, Vermont still hasn't filled a fourth license slot — the market has run exactly as it launched, three operators, online-only, no retail sportsbook window anywhere in the state. There's also no online casino path of any kind: Vermont has no commercial or tribal casino industry to attach an iGaming license to, no such bill has advanced, and none is pending. That absence isn't a Rainbet story either — it's a market Vermont hasn't built yet, for anyone.

Is Rainbet Legit? Is It Safe to Try Anyway?

Judged on the roughly 180 countries it actually serves, Rainbet holds up by the standard measures: a real Anjouan Gambling Authority license (001-2023-AJG) under RBGAMING N.V., provably-fair Originals that check out mathematically, and rakeback claimable every ten minutes that pays out as described in most player reports. The honest caveat is age — three years next to a state licensing board's multi-year vetting process is a short runway, and an Anjouan license carries nothing like Vermont's regulatory weight.

Safety follows the same pattern it does in every state on this site: a VPN can get a Vermont connection past Rainbet's signup geo-check, but Rainbet's terms separately ban VPN use and reserve the right to withhold a withdrawal once the violation surfaces — usually right when a balance is worth defending. Vermont's own exposure for an individual bettor is mild by comparison: 13 V.S.A. §2141 fines $10 to $200 for winning or losing money by wager, with the heavier six-month, $500 penalty reserved for operating a gambling house, not for a player testing a workaround.

  • 2023 — the year both Act 63 and Rainbet's excluded-territory policy began
  • 6 — sportsbook licenses Vermont law allows; 3 — the number actually issued
  • January 11, 2024 — launch date for all three licensed operators at once
  • $10–$200 — the individual-bettor fine range under 13 V.S.A. §2141
  • 0 — legal online casinos in Vermont, for any operator

What Vermont Residents Can Use Instead

  • For licensed sports betting: DraftKings, FanDuel, or Fanatics Sportsbook — the entire legal field the state has chosen to license.
  • For online casino games: nothing regulated exists in Vermont for anyone; this is a market gap, not a Rainbet exclusion.
  • For Rainbet's crypto-first shape specifically: Bovada accepts Vermont players and isn't among the states it blocks, though it carries its own offshore trade-offs worth reading honestly first.

Vermont and Rainbet both trace back to 2023, and neither one owes the other an explanation. Vermont built a small, deliberate sportsbook market it has since left half-filled. Rainbet closed the whole country and hasn't reopened it. Ten-minute rakeback, wherever it's reachable, discounts the house edge — it doesn't reverse it. Play with money set aside for entertainment, or don't play.