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Apollo Pool is a validator node on the Radix network, one of the nodes that produce the network's rounds and that delegators stake XRD to in order to earn staking emissions. It has run since the Olympia network and is still validating. Since 19 September 2026 it has charged a 100% validator fee, so the 11.3 million XRD delegated to it earns its delegators nothing.

Validator

Read from the Radix Gateway at mainnet epoch 342,387 (20 September 2026, 03:04 UTC), Apollo Pool is registered, accepts delegated stake, and holds 11,321,521.28 XRD – rank 68 of the 186 registered validators. Its uptime over the preceding week was 99.11%. Its stake units are resource_rdx1t5d…ce5mup70s and the claim receipts it issues for unstaking are resource_rdx1nts…t7qd5hend3.

The validator's owner badge, which is what authorises a change of fee or a deregistration, is not held by an ordinary account. It sits in a component of the AccessManager blueprint, so the badge is exercised through that component's roles rather than by signing with a wallet key.

The fee rise to 100%

Apollo Pool charged 20% until epoch 342,116, 04:29 UTC on 19 September 2026, when a queued fee change took effect and took the whole emission instead. A fee change on Radix is signed once and applies at a stated epoch, and this one was readable on ledger long before it arrived: the request is already present at epoch 336,101, 18 August 2026, which is the oldest epoch the Gateway still serves state for, so it stood for at least 6,015 epochs and across the August halt before it landed. The interval between signing and the effective epoch is the window in which a delegator who does not want the new rate unstakes.

Almost nobody used it. Pinned reads of the validator's stake vault give 11,323,359.28 XRD at the epoch the fee took effect, 11,324,911.32 XRD nineteen hours later, and 11,321,521.28 XRD at epoch 342,387 a day after the change – a net 1,838 XRD withdrawn, 0.02% of the stake.

The node's own component still stores the old fee. Its validator_fee_factor reads 0.2, because the engine rewrites that field only when the owner next calls update_fee; the register's effective_fee_factor is the field reporting the 100% actually charged, and a tool reading the stored one reports 20%. Validator Nodes sets out why the two fields disagree, and Validator subsidy sunset puts this increase in the queue of fee rises that followed the end of the Foundation's validator subsidy.

The website

Apollo Pool publishes https://www.ApolloPool.io as its info_url on ledger, and that domain is no longer the operator's. The registry record, read on 20 September 2026, gives a registration date of 23 August 2026, an expiry of 23 August 2027 and Cloudflare nameservers; both apollopool.io and www.apollopool.io answer HTTP 301 to an unrelated lottery site. Stake is delegated to the validator address rather than to the domain, so the node is unaffected, but a wallet or explorer that follows the on-ledger link reaches that site. Only the holder of the owner badge can change the field.

The Internet Archive holds the validator's own site from June 2021 to April 2025, last captured in full on 17 March 2025 under the title “Apollo Pool | Validator Node | RadixDLT”. That page describes a node run by three operators with backgrounds in cyber security, telecommunications, networking and project management, running on AWS with a backup full node for failover, and it prints the validator's Olympia-era address, rv1qg2y0d4tau87nk3fu6j0frcwl4yc6tmwh7vduflmp9jvc989wemljtzd4sd, with instructions for staking through the Radix Desktop Wallet. It states the fee as “a low 2.5% Validator Fee which strikes a balance between maximising rewards for delegators and ensuring a robust platform”, and carries a 2022 copyright line. Nothing has been captured since April 2025, and no wind-down was announced.

How to stake

To delegate to Apollo Pool, open the Radix Wallet, go to the Stake section, paste the validator address (validator_rdx1s0t…zv6h2aahj), enter the amount of XRD to delegate and confirm the transaction. At the current fee the validator keeps the whole emission, so stake delegated here accrues nothing; unstaking is subject to the network's standard unstaking delay.

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