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 expired, while the node itself keeps proposing.
Validator
Read live from the Radix Gateway at mainnet epoch 335,407 (16 August 2026, 07:09 UTC), Cobra Stakes is registered, accepts delegated stake, and holds 92,918,353.30 XRD – rank 17 of the 187 registered validators among 287 validator components on mainnet. Its stake has grown modestly since this page's previous reading of ≈92.4 million XRD at epoch 326958 on 17 July 2026.
Its fee is 15%, and the ledger states that in two places rather than one. The validator's stored validator_fee_factor still reads 0.01, while its validator_fee_change_request carries new_fee_factor 0.15 with an epoch_effective of 289094 – an epoch long past. The request that has come into effect is the fee actually charged; the substate field is the stale one. The same divergence holds across a large minority of the validator set, so a fee read from validator_fee_factor alone can be wrong by a wide margin.
The website
Cobra Stakes has no working site. Fetched with a browser user agent on 16 August 2026, both cobrastakes.com and www.cobrastakes.com return HTTP 200 with a 10,881-byte registrar page titled “Your domain is expired” – a step down from the “Coming soon” placeholder this page recorded in July. The validator's on-ledger info_url metadata still points at https://www.cobrastakes.com, so a wallet or explorer following that link lands on the expired-domain page.
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 coincided with an on-ledger unregister. 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
- CrumbsNode – Radix validator
- Supreme Stake – Radix validator
- Validator nodes – how the validator set works
- Radix Ecosystem directory