Radical Staking is a validator node on the Radix public network. It has run since the Olympia Betanet launch on 28 April 2021, making it one of the network's original operators, and it is currently the eighth-largest validator by delegated stake.
Like every Radix validator it earns emissions in proportion to the stake delegated to it, keeps a declared percentage as a fee, and distributes the remainder to its delegators through the stake units they hold. What distinguishes one validator from another is its fee, its uptime, and how much of the network's stake it has attracted; all three are readable from the ledger, and the figures below were taken from it rather than from the operator.
On-ledger position
Measured against Radix mainnet at epoch 338766 (27 August 2026):
- Total stake — 148,990,075.76 XRD, ranking it 8th of the 188 registered validators, behind SRWA, Astrolescent, Reddicks Node, Weft, Ocinode, Jazzer9F and the DefiPlaza investment node.
- Validator fee — 1%, charged on emissions before they reach delegators. That is at the low end of the active set, where declared fees run from 0% to 100%.
- Uptime — 100% over the month to 27 August 2026, with no missed proposals recorded in that window.
- Stake units — the validator's stake-unit resource
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These figures do not match the ones the operator publishes. radicalstaking.com states 125,245,039 XRD in active stake and 8,753 delegations — a stake figure roughly 19% below the ledger, and a participant count 53 above the closest on-ledger measure. The site carries no date, so the divergence most likely reflects a page that has not been refreshed rather than a dispute about the numbers.
The "#1 by delegators" claim
The operator describes the node as the "#1 Radix validator node by number of delegators". The ledger does not record a delegator count directly. What it records is who holds the validator's stake units, and because stake units are ordinary transferable fungible tokens, that count is a proxy rather than the figure itself — an account can hold stake units it never staked for, and a delegator who moves them keeps the delegation while losing the holding.
Read as that proxy, the claim is defensible but narrow. Across the twelve largest validators by stake, Radical Staking's 8,700 stake-unit holders is the highest of the actively-marketed nodes, ahead of Jazzer9F on 8,654 — a margin of 46 accounts, well inside the range a week of ordinary staking activity can move. Every other node in that group is an order of magnitude behind: SRWA 3,051, Weft 1,423, CaviarNine-1 1,608, Ociswap's Ocinode 2,176, XSEED 982, Astrolescent 939.
One validator sits far above all of them and illustrates why the proxy needs care. Radstakes' stake unit is held by 121,414 accounts against 93.1M XRD of stake, an average of 766 XRD each; the holdings are dominated by dust positions last touched at state versions 9 and 10, which is to say at the genesis of the Babylon ledger, when Olympia stake was migrated wholesale. Those are historical balances, not people choosing a validator today.
Operators
The node is run by a named team rather than anonymously, which is unusual enough among Radix validators to be worth recording. Per the operator's own site: Wilson Verardi (chief executive and enterprise architect), who took the node into the Olympia Betanet and previously ran a Cardano stake pool; Jason Lee (system administrator), a UC Berkeley computer science graduate working in IT since 1994; and John Buell (senior adviser), with a long background in UNIX and Linux administration.
The validator's owner badge is held by account_rdx169ycp5uvsm7wd4cs5xwzzxrw6ykk3v9mnjdrrzuezmcl6gkm37j9cz, the account with authority to change the node's fee, registration and metadata.
Ecosystem support
Alongside running the node the operator sponsors and works with other Radix projects. The partners it currently names are Ociswap, Radix Collection, Delphibets, Cerby, Arcane Labyrinth and SRWA. The node also states that it assists smaller validators in the ecosystem, which it frames as a decentralisation measure — a large validator has an interest in stake not concentrating further, since Radix consensus weights a validator's influence by the stake delegated to it.
Earlier versions of this page also listed XSEED and Maya Protocol as partners. Neither appears on the operator's current partner list, and the description previously given for Maya Protocol — a stablecoin platform — was wrong in any case: Maya Protocol is a cross-chain liquidity network.
External links
- radicalstaking.com — the operator's site
- Radical Staking on RadixScan — live stake, fee and uptime
See also
- Validator Nodes — what a Radix validator does and how the active set is chosen
- Liquid Stake Units (LSUs) — the transferable token a delegator receives, and why its holder count is not a delegator count
- Staking — delegation, emissions and validator fees