Non-Official HEX Staking Frontends

This page is informational — credit, not endorsement. This site has no affiliation with any app below, and nothing here is financial advice. Where we couldn’t verify a detail against the app itself, we say so.

What “Non-Official Frontend” Means

Each chain runs one HEX contract, at the same address on both (0x2b591e99afE9f32eAA6214f7B7629768c40Eeb39). PulseChain’s coin is HEX; Ethereum’s is eHEX, a separate coin with a separate price since the May 2023 fork. Every stake on a chain, whichever app builds it, ends up as a stakeStart in that chain’s immutable HEX contract, sent from your wallet directly or through an HSI or pool contract. A “frontend” is just a website that builds the transaction for you and hands it to your wallet to sign.

HEX’s official launch page is go.hex.com, a page of links: a “Launch HEX” preview that opens the app from an IPFS gateway, desktop downloads, and a short list of community frontends (Icosa among them). The apps below are third-party alternatives — pooled staking (STAKEHOUSE), Hedron-based staking (Icosa), easier onboarding (TShare.app), one shut down with its stakes still reachable (Staker), and one (Actuator) that builds a liquidity layer of tradable time tokens on top of a stake. None of them is HEX; most are doors to the same room, and one builds a new room next to it.

(Different question: our Frontends page is about launching the official Actuator, HEX and Icosa-Hedron apps from their public IPFS files — access copies, not alternatives. This page is about third-party staking apps.)

The Rule That Keeps Them Safe: Non-Custodial by Construction

A HEX staking frontend never holds your coins and never needs your Seed Phrase: the frontend builds a transaction and your wallet signs that transaction (see Seed Phrase and Security). What a frontend can do is put the wrong transaction in front of you. The most dangerous is an approval that lets another address spend your HEX, which is the door drainers use (Token Approval). A plain stake needs no approval at all. An approval is sent “to” the genuine HEX contract, so for an approval the address that counts is the spender it names. A frontend can also go offline or show wrong numbers, and that risk is part of ordinary due diligence.

Where a stake goes:

• A plain stake calls stakeStart on the HEX contract above (what that contract is and does: Reading HEX from the Source).
• An Actuator stake approves HEX to the HEXTimeTokenManager (0x0d5d61FDDf84feFAB26f98164D8009022d740206) and then calls its hexStakeStart.
• A Hedron or Icosa HSI approves HEX to the HEX Stake Instance Manager (0x8BD3d1472A656e312E94fB1BbdD599B8C51D18e3) and then calls its hexStakeStart.
• A pooled stake deposits HEX into that pool’s own contract.

Who can end a stake. Only the wallet that owns a plain stake can end that stake. A pool’s stake is ended through the pool contract. Anyone can end an Actuator-delegated stake from its HTT maturity day on, and from the fourth day after that maturity whoever ends it collects a growing share of that stake’s escrowed rewards (End-Stake Subsidy).

Profiled Frontends

Statuses last checked 2026-09-23; a frontend’s status can change at any time.

app.Actuator.finance (Actuator)

Full disclosure first: this website is dedicated to explaining Actuator, and its author holds HEX, PLS, ACTR and HTTs (About) — so this entry is written as description, not a sales pitch, and its claims can be checked against the primary sources cited here. See How It Works and the Manual for the deep version.

Actuator is a different kind of app from the others here. It is not just a nicer way to press “stake” — it’s a protocol that turns a HEX stake into tradable HEX Time Tokens (HTTs). You start a new HEX stake as an HSI (HEX Stake Instance) delegated to Actuator’s contract, or delegate an HSI you already hold (an existing native stake cannot be converted), and mint HTTs against the stake’s extractable value — fungible, time-dated claims on future HEX that trade on a yield curve. It runs on PulseChain.

Trust notes. Non-custodial, but with a nuance worth understanding: you delegate control of the HSI to the immutable Actuator contract while HTTs are minted, and you reclaim full control, before the HTTs’ maturity day, by retiring (burning) every HTT minted against the stake. If the mint paid the 1% fee, the minter holds 1% fewer than the stake owes, and that share has to be bought or minted from another stake first. Accounting is code-enforced 1:1. Actuator has published third-party audits (Dedaub and SourceHat — distilled in our Risks page), and its contracts are immutable with no admin keys. “Audited” is not “riskless,” and delegating a stake is a bigger action than a plain UI click, so the usual due diligence still applies.

STAKEHOUSE (0xstakehouse.io)

STAKEHOUSE is a self-directed pooled HEX staking protocol the project describes as trustless — many people combine HEX into one large, long stake to split end-stake gas and qualify the pool for HEX’s Bigger-Pays-Better / Longer-Pays-Better bonuses. It runs on Ethereum and PulseChain. Once enrollment closes and the stake starts, the pool’s HEX stays in that one HEX stake until maturity; before then, the project’s sister OTC market, Bistro, lets holders list pool shares for sale, which completes only if a buyer takes the order. It’s part of the food/coffee-themed MCR369 (Magic Carpet Ride 369) suite — Stakehouse, Bistro (OTC), Buffet (stake $MCR369 for a share of suite revenue), and Barista ($BEAN / $USDL) — built by TripletDad007 (@007McCrypto1).

Costs, per the project’s docs. A pool creator may set a fee of 0–1%, paid from principal plus yield. Each pool action carries a native-coin fee (the docs say 3,690 gwei). At withdrawal a member pays a share of the end-stake gas plus 1/20 of the total gas fee to Buffet, and 20% of the pool’s Hedron goes to Buffet. From 7 days after maturity, anyone can call a HEX “Bleed” of 1% per day on positions not yet claimed; the creator’s fee is paid from the bled HEX and the rest goes to Buffet (MCR369 stakers).

Trust notes. The project describes STAKEHOUSE as trustless with “no admin keys, no middlemen” — a strong claim this site has not yet verified on-chain. The project’s docs list the StakeHouseFactory contracts (Ethereum 0xF0f7a4cd109Fb8eFa038b00771Ba2E305635C985, PulseChain 0x16d9885b7444f75A766b9d56cEeb45513B3c72ef); each pool is a separate contract that factory creates. Pooled staking adds a layer of smart-contract and counterparty trust on top of plain staking; the specific pool contract is what holds the HEX. Its revenue-share token MCR369 is on-chain-confirmed (symbol MCR369, exactly 369,369,369 on PulseChain), but it is a thin-liquidity micro-cap, and the token is separate from the staking itself (the pool’s stake is HEX, in the HEX contract).

On audits. The project’s docs publish a StakeHouse audit report (docs.mcr369.io → STAKEHOUSE → AUDIT; file uploaded February 2025); this site has not confirmed its scope or that it covers the deployed contracts. (HEX’s own base contract is audited — CoinFabrik, 2019, public — but that covers HEX, not STAKEHOUSE’s pooling code.) Blockswap’s “Stakehouse Protocol” is a completely separate Ethereum liquid-staking project that is heavily audited (Halborn, Solidified, Runtime Verification, Certora, Code4rena) — those audits do not apply here.

Sources: docs.mcr369.io; 0xstakehouse.io; the MCR369 token contract 0x7FF1C0e8C968a8Ddc1F25e3D891562EA549Ee32e on PulseChain. Credit, not endorsement.

app.Icosa.pro (Icosa)

Icosa is a staking app from the Hedron team (published on GitHub as PLSFusion/Icosa). It builds on Hedron’s HSI (HEX Stake Instance), a small contract holding one HEX stake that its owner may tokenize as an NFT, and adds its own staking: stake HDRN or ICSA (a size class — Squid, Dolphin, Shark, Whale, set by the stake’s share of supply — fixes the minimum stake length and the end-stake bonus), or sell a tokenized HSI to the contract for ICSA through its HSI buy-back. WAATSA (“We Are All the SA”) was a 14-day launch event, Ethereum only, that minted stake NFTs. Icosa runs on both Ethereum and PulseChain.

Trust notes. Non-custodial (your keys stay yours); HDRN staked in Icosa is held by the Icosa contract, and staked ICSA is burned and minted back when the stake ends. We found no published third-party audit for Icosa itself — an unaudited contract carries more smart-contract risk; see our glossary entries for Icosa and Hedron.

Staker App

Staker was a popular mobile HEX app (iOS/Android) that let people buy and stake HEX and build “staking ladders.” The company shut down (announced ≈ January 2024) — but this is the important part: access to the stakes did not die with the company. Staker was non-custodial. Each user received their own Gnosis Safe smart-contract wallet, controlled by a 24-word Seed Phrase generated on their own phone that never reached Staker. The company dying removed the friendly app, not your access.

HEX’s late rule still applies to a stake nobody ends. A stake ended more than 14 days after its end day returns less: the penalty is (principal + full-term yield) × the days past those 14 ÷ 700. A stake ended 714 or more days after its end day returns nothing, unless someone called Good Accounting on it before then, which fixes the penalty at the day of that call. Nothing leaves a stake until it is ended (Late Penalty).

Recovering a Staker stake (Ethereum: any route below; PulseChain: a rescue dApp, since Safe’s own app does not list PulseChain):

• app.safe.global — Ethereum only: load your Seed Phrase on a wallet, import your Safe, end the stake and send the HEX out. On Ethereum this is the trustless path and works even if every Staker server disappears.
• staker.app — a web interface (sign in with your original Google/Apple/email) that the team promised to keep online for years (PulseChain support not verified by this site).
• safe.gigatheminter.com — an open-source rescue dApp (source: github.com/proestever/PulseChain-Safe-HEX-Stake-Rescue) that ends HEX stakes held in a Staker Safe on PulseChain or Ethereum and sends the HEX out. It is a fork, by a different developer, of FutureUs’s original at safe.tshare.app. Staker’s Safes are version 1.1.1, which signs without a chain ID; the fork adds that signing. The original signs only in the Safe 1.3.0-and-later form, which a Staker Safe does not accept, so its rescue does not go through on a Staker Safe. This site has not run either tool against a live Safe.

Ending a stake before its end day is an Early End Stake: HEX takes a penalty that can reach the whole stake. Ending the stake on its Stake End Day, or within the 14-day grace period after that day, carries no penalty. After that, the late penalty applies. Each stake’s end day can be read on-chain before anything is signed.

Sources: Staker’s shutdown post (@StakerApp on X, January 2024); Staker’s “Staker Security” article (medium.com/stakerapp); Safe’s GitHub issue github.com/safe-global/safe-user-allocation-reports/issues/365. Helping stranded Staker users is a planned project.

TShare.app

TShare.app (staking interface at go.tshare.app) runs the open-source HEXmob code (github.com/gruvin/hexmob.win) under TShare branding, including HEXmob’s “HEX Mining” wording for staking; the gamified part is the tshare.app landing, “The Hexican Crane Game.” It is run by FutureUs (co-founder of TShare App and SmartVaultMe) and associated with community researcher Mati Allin, and describes itself as a non-profit, fee-free app.

Its angle is approachability and game theory. The tshare.app landing walks a newcomer through buying ETH with MetaMask’s own Buy feature and exchanging it for HEX. It also uses the “send money to your future self” framing of delayed gratification, the same idea behind Mati Allin’s T-Share Years metric (see the glossary). (The card purchase, its fees and any KYC belong to MetaMask and its payment providers, not TShare.)

FutureUs also built safe.tshare.app, the original Staker-App rescue tool; the fork listed above adds the signing Staker’s Safes need.

Trust notes. Non-custodial (a UI over your own wallet and the HEX contract). A frontend that asks for the Seed Phrase is asking for the whole wallet; the contract and spender in each signature show where the coins can go. Credit to Mati Allin & FutureUs for the T-Share Years concept — credit, not endorsement.

More HEX Frontends and Stake Pools

Beyond the five above, the ecosystem has produced many other community-built HEX frontends and pooled-stake projects. This second list is compiled from public sources and not all independently verified by us — statuses as of 2026-09-23 and may drift. It is a map for due diligence, not a recommendation.

¹ Reported live from public sources; not independently verified by this site. ² Maximus Pool Party’s contracts still respond on PulseChain (name/symbol confirmed, 19 transfers in the last ~40,000 blocks, checked 2026-09-23), so existing pooled stakes remain interactable — but the $PARTY token market has collapsed (−96.9% from its Feb-2024 high; sporadic trading — CoinGecko’s last tracked trade 2026-09-21 on Uniswap V3 (Ethereum), checked 2026-09-23): the platform is economically inactive. Immutable contracts can outlive their community; a specific pool’s state can be read on-chain.

On pooled staking (“stake together”): projects like Maximus Pool Party and the Maximus perpetuals let many people combine HEX into one large, long stake — qualifying the pool for HEX’s Bigger-Pays-Better / Longer-Pays-Better bonuses and splitting end-stake gas, in exchange for a pool token. That pooling is powerful but adds a layer of smart-contract and counterparty trust on top of plain staking — the specific pool contract, not the platform, is what holds the HEX.

Before You Trust Any Frontend

1. Does it ask for your Seed Phrase? It never should. Walk away if it does.
2. Where do the coins go? A plain stake goes from your wallet into the HEX contract. Pooled apps (STAKEHOUSE, Maximus) take your HEX into their own contracts, and Icosa holds staked HDRN in its contract. Actuator takes control of a delegated HSI until its HTTs are retired or the stake is ended. In each case, that contract’s code is what you are trusting.
3. Which contract, in full? A plain stake is sent to 0x2b591e99afE9f32eAA6214f7B7629768c40Eeb39 (every character, middle included) and needs no token approval. HSI and pooled apps send to their own contracts (see above). An approval request names a spender, and that spender is the address to check in full.
4. Unaudited is common here — know what you’re interacting with; smaller/newer apps carry more smart-contract risk.
5. Read-only first. You can always look before you sign.

The same checks apply to every app, including any this site ever builds. Full method on our Due Diligence page.

Compiled 2026-07-20. Operators and features are as reported by each project and, where noted, not independently verified by this site. No affiliation; not financial advice.