Cobra Stakes is a validator node on the Radix network, providing Proof-of-Stake infrastructure that delegators use to help secure the network and earn staking rewards. It is one of the network's larger validators and has no public-facing web presence: its branded domain, cobrastakes.com, has lapsed and been released by the registry, while the node itself keeps proposing.
Validator
Read live from the Radix Gateway at mainnet epoch 352,720 (26 October 2026, 00:11 UTC), Cobra Stakes is registered, accepts delegated stake, and holds 53.28m $XRD – rank 22 of the 186 registered validators. It held 84.55m $XRD and ranked 21st on 19 September, and 92.92m $XRD and ranked 17th of 187 on 16 August. In the week from 19 October it made 17,607 proposals and missed 1.
The fee this validator charges, and any change queued against it, is shown live on its Radix Dashboard page.
The website
Cobra Stakes has no working site, and its domain is on its way out of the owner's hands. On 16 August 2026 both cobrastakes.com and www.cobrastakes.com returned a registrar page titled “Your domain is expired”, a step down from the “Coming soon” placeholder this page recorded in July. By 19 September neither name resolved at all. The registration had expired on 6 August 2026, and from 18 September the registry held the domain in redemptionPeriod, the owner's last window to restore it. Nobody did: on 26 October 2026 the .com registry's RDAP service returned no record for cobrastakes.com, which means the name has been released and anyone can register it.
The validator's on-ledger info_url metadata still points at https://www.cobrastakes.com, so a wallet or explorer following that link now reaches nothing, and would reach whoever registers the name next. Only the holder of the validator's owner badge can change that field.
That is a presentation failure rather than an operational one, and the distinction matters: an expired domain says nothing about whether a node is proposing. Leaf Node is the contrasting case, where the website going dark came with an on-ledger unregister on 10 August 2026, reversed six days later. Here the ledger record is unbroken.
How to stake
To delegate to Cobra Stakes, open the Radix Wallet, go to the Stake section, paste the validator address (validator_rdx1sw…32aavw9t), enter the amount of $XRD to delegate and confirm the transaction. Staking rewards accrue automatically each epoch, net of the validator fee; unstaking is subject to the network's standard unstaking delay.
Related
- Apollo Pool – Radix validator whose on-ledger website was re-registered by someone else
- CrumbsNode – Radix validator
- Supreme Stake – Radix validator
- Validator nodes – how the validator set works
- Radix Ecosystem directory