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title: "StakeBros"
url: "https://radix.wiki/ecosystem/stakebros"
version: "3.0.0"
updated: 2026-08-18
last_verified: 2026-08-18
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# StakeBros

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| **Project** | StakeBros (also written StakeBroz) |
| **Type** | [Validator node](/contents/tech/core-concepts/validator-nodes) / staking service |
| **Network** | [Radix](/contents/tech/releases/radix-mainnet-olympia) |
| **Operators** | Two brothers, unnamed publicly |
| **Founded** | 2022 |
| **Status** | 🔴 Closed |
| **Website** | stakebros.info – offline; [last archived 13 December 2025](https://web.archive.org/web/20251213221758/https://stakebros.info/) |

## Overview

**StakeBros**, also written StakeBroz, was a [validator node](/contents/tech/core-concepts/validator-nodes) and delegated [staking](/contents/tech/core-concepts/staking) service on Radix, run by two brothers who described a combined 30 years of IT and DevOps experience between them. Delegators earned a share of [network emissions](/contents/tech/core-concepts/network-emissions) in return for stake pointed at the node.

The operators [published a short pitch](https://web.archive.org/web/20251213221758/https://stakebros.info/) for the node: second-generation AMD EPYC processors, 64 GB of RAM and enterprise NVMe storage; a full backup node kept ready for failover; DevSecOps practice for operations and monitoring; and hosting with Stratode in Germany, chosen on the grounds that no other top-100 Radix validator used that provider, so running there added to the spread of the [validator set](/contents/tech/core-concepts/validator-nodes). Those are the operators’ own claims, recorded here as they were made; none of them was independently verified while the node was running.

## Status check (18 August 2026)

Three readings, all taken on 18 August 2026, put the project past dormancy and into closure as this wiki uses the terms on [Radix Ecosystem Operational Status](/contents/resources/radix-ecosystem-operational-status).

**The domain has lapsed.** stakebros.info publishes no address record and its nameservers are now delegated to [park.io](https://park.io), a service that registers domain names as they expire and resells them. Nothing loads there. The [Internet Archive’s last capture of a working site](https://web.archive.org/web/20251213221758/https://stakebros.info/) is dated 13 December 2025, and there is no capture after it.

**No validator carries the name.** Reading the mainnet validator set at epoch 336,030 returns 287 records – 188 currently registered, plus unregistered validators that still hold delegated stake – and none of them publishes StakeBros or StakeBroz as its on-ledger name.

**The address on this page predates the current network.** See below.

## Why the published staking instructions no longer work

Until this revision, the page reproduced StakeBros’ four-step guide: open the Radix Desktop Wallet, go to the Stake/Unstake tab, enter the validator address `rv1q087r7c4fhzhvjgq665jc8re9lwjvgamx6qrdl436r92wfuw3hz6x4lp06u`, and confirm. Both halves of that instruction belong to [Olympia](/contents/tech/releases/radix-mainnet-olympia), the network Radix ran before [Babylon](/contents/tech/releases/radix-mainnet-babylon).

The `rv1q…` prefix is the Olympia validator address format. Every validator on the network today is addressed as `validator_rdx1…`, as the 287 records read above all are. The Radix Olympia Desktop Wallet was likewise superseded: its accounts were exported once into the Radix Wallet mobile app, after which, per the [migration guide](https://www.radixdlt.com/articles-learn/migrating-accounts-from-the-radix-olympia-desktop-wallet), “the Olympia account addresses will cease to function and will be flagged as ‘Obsolete’”.

The steps are kept above as a record of what the service published, not as instructions to follow. A reader looking for a live validator to delegate to should pick one from the current set instead.

## External links

- [stakebros.info](https://web.archive.org/web/20251213221758/https://stakebros.info/) – archived 13 December 2025, the last working capture
- [How XRD staking emissions, rewards and penalties are calculated](https://learn.radixdlt.com/article/how-xrd-staking-emissions-rewards-penalties-are-calculated-general) – Radix Knowledge Base
- [Migrating accounts from the Radix Olympia Desktop Wallet](https://www.radixdlt.com/articles-learn/migrating-accounts-from-the-radix-olympia-desktop-wallet) – Radix Knowledge Base