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StakingCoins is a blockchain node and validator company founded by Marco Michelino, an experienced Italian Linux system administrator and member of the Radix DLT community.

History

Marco, the founder of StakingCoins, first began his journey into the world of cryptocurrencies in 2013 when he purchased his first Bitcoin. Over the years, he expanded his activities into running various blockchain nodes. His engagement with the Radix DLT community further deepened when he participated in testing the Radix DLT betanet with his own node. Marco also serves as a Radix Ambassador and runs the unofficial Radix DLT Italian Telegram group (@Radix_Italia).

Infrastructure

StakingCoins operates two physical validator nodes – each with 32 GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores – hosted in separate tier-4 data centers in France and Germany, providing geographic redundancy and DDoS protection.

Validator Proposal

StakingCoins charges its delegators a 10% validator fee, and has done since 9 February 2026 — not the 2% its stored fee factor reads, and not the 2% this page previously stated. The two numbers are both on the ledger and neither is wrong; see On-ledger status below. As of 10 August 2026 the StakingCoins validator (validator_rdx1sva6pmkgm5yacumw4p6k0xsfnqg598xkj9p4e2a58dl6gcrqpx7z86) is registered on the Radix mainnet with 15,355,297.71 XRD staked and a 99.97% 30-day proposal record.

Communication

For delegators of StakingCoins, there is a dedicated Telegram group (@Radix_StakingCoins), where a bot automatically informs members of any issues with the validator node. In addition to this, Marco can be contacted through Discord at rigel#5123 and is active on Twitter under the handle @Radix_SC.

On-ledger status (August 2026)

Read live from the Radix Gateway on 10 August 2026 at epoch 333630 (state version 548,029,458), the StakingCoins validator is registered, accepts delegated stake, and holds 15,355,297.71 XRD — rank 61 of the 188 registered validators by stake. Over the trailing 30 days (epochs 325,000–333,631) it made 49,626 proposals and missed 14, a 99.97% record. Stake units are issued as resource_rdx1t4p…m5aahap0 and unstake claims as resource_rdx1ntg…t96z4jfve.

The fee needs stating carefully, because two different numbers are both true on the ledger. The stored validator_fee_factor is 0.02. Sitting beside it is a validator_fee_change_request for 0.1 with an effective epoch of 281,280 — a block finalized on 9 February 2026, 52,351 epochs and about 182 days before this reading. The engine resolves the fee it actually charges at emission time as “the request, if its effective epoch has passed; otherwise the stored field”, and only writes the request back into the stored field when the owner requests the next change. So the validator has charged 10% for six months while every tool that reads only the stored factor — including, until this edit, this page — reported 2%.

StakingCoins is not unusual in this. At the same reading, 63 of the 188 registered validators were charging something other than their stored fee factor, 51 of them more, and between them they held 2,974,708,557 of the 4,739,857,777 XRD delegated to registered validators — 63% of all delegated stake. The mechanism, and the rule for reading a Radix validator fee correctly, are set out on Validator Nodes.

ShardSpace AdminLast updated 5d agov2.2.08 revisionsVerified Aug 10, 2026