Broadly, any bonus you can claim and play with real stakes without first funding your account. At crypto casinos specifically, this spans four distinct formats, each covered in full on its own page:
- Free Chip — a fixed amount of casino credit (e.g. $20–$50), usable across eligible games.
- Faucet — small amounts of actual cryptocurrency, distributed repeatedly over time, separate from casino credit.
- Free Spins — a set number of spins on a specific slot, rather than general-purpose credit.
- Sign-Up Bonus — credit or spins tied specifically to completing registration, sometimes with its own verification steps.
These get marketed fairly loosely by casinos — "free bonus," "no-deposit gift," and similar phrasing gets applied to all four somewhat interchangeably — but the mechanics genuinely differ, which is exactly why each has its own page rather than being covered once here in full.