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
There is only one HEX contract (0x2b591e99afE9f32eAA6214f7B7629768c40Eeb39,
the same on Ethereum and PulseChain). Every stake — no matter which app you click —
is the same stakeStart call to that same immutable contract. A “frontend” is just
a website that builds the transaction for you and hands it to your wallet to sign.
HEX’s reference frontend is go.hex.com. The apps below are third-party alternatives — one makes onboarding easier, one shut down (its stakes still recoverable), and one (Actuator) builds a whole 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 and HEX 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 cannot take your coins, because it never holds them — staking moves your HEX into the HEX contract from your wallet, and only your wallet’s signature can end it. That gives you one clean test you can apply to any frontend, this list or not:
- It should never ask for your seed phrase. A real frontend connects to your wallet (MetaMask, etc.) and asks you to sign; it never needs your 12/24 words. If a site asks you to type your seed, close it. (See Seedphrase and Security.)
- Verify what you’re signing. The “to” address of a stake should be the HEX contract above. Our Reading HEX from the Source guide shows exactly what that contract is and does.
- A frontend can still fail you in smaller ways — go offline, show wrong numbers, or (if it ever asked for a token approval you didn’t understand) mislead you. Read-only is safest; when you do act, act deliberately. This is ordinary due diligence.
Profiled frontends
Statuses last checked 2026-07-20; they are re-checked on this site’s weekly review, but always confirm a frontend is alive before relying on it.
| Frontend | Operator | Status | Custody | Chains | Distinctive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| app.Actuator.finance | Actuator Finance LLC | Live | Non-custodial (delegated HSI, revocable) | PulseChain | Not just staking — mints tradable HEX Time Tokens against a stake; audited |
| STAKEHOUSE (0xstakehouse.io) | TripletDad007 / Magic Carpet Ride 369 | Live | Non-custodial (project-stated) | Ethereum · PulseChain | Trustless pooled HEX staking — split gas, Bigger-Pays-Better; sell pool shares via Bistro OTC |
| app.Icosa.pro | Hedron team | Live | Non-custodial | Ethereum · PulseChain | HSI-based staking classes, HSI buy-back, WAATSA |
| Staker App | Staker company (defunct) | Shut down — stakes recoverable | Non-custodial (Gnosis Safe) | Ethereum · PulseChain | Mobile app; each user got their own Safe wallet |
| TShare.app | FutureUs (with Mati Allin) | Live | Non-custodial (MetaMask UI) | Ethereum · PulseChain | Gamified “HEX Mining”; fiat on-ramp; runs the Staker rescue tool |
app.Actuator.finance (Actuator)
Full disclosure first: this website is dedicated to explaining Actuator — so read this entry as description, not a sales pitch, and check it against the primary sources we cite. 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 wrap a HEX stake as an HSI (HEX Stake Instance), delegate that HSI to Actuator’s contract, 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 by retiring (burning) the HTTs — accounting is code-enforced 1:1. Unlike the others on this page, Actuator has published third-party audits (Dedaub and SourceHat — distilled in our Risks and audit notes), and its contracts are immutable with no admin keys. That is a real differentiator — but “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 trustless, self-directed pooled HEX staking protocol — 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, and you can sell any percentage of your pool shares at any time via its sister OTC market, Bistro (no lock-in). 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).
Trust notes. The project describes STAKEHOUSE as trustless with “no admin keys, no middlemen” — a strong claim we have not yet independently verified on-chain (we don’t have its pool-contract address), so treat it as project-stated for now. Pooled staking adds a layer of smart-contract and counterparty trust on top of plain staking; vet the specific pool contract before committing. 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 — note the token is separate from the staking itself (your stake is HEX, in the HEX contract).
On audits. The team says ~90% of the code has been audited “several times” by a small firm — but no public report has been released, so there is nothing anyone outside the team can verify; for your own due diligence, treat it as unaudited until a report is public. (HEX’s own base contract is audited — CoinFabrik, 2019, public — but that covers HEX, not STAKEHOUSE’s pooling code.) And don’t confuse this with Blockswap’s “Stakehouse Protocol,” a completely separate Ethereum liquid-staking project that is heavily audited (Halborn, Solidified, Runtime Verification, Certora, Code4rena) — those audits do not apply here.
Detail and sources: our knowledge base. 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) — the tokenized,
NFT-wrapped HEX stake — and layers its own mechanics on top: staking “classes,” an
HSI buy-back, and a mechanism the project calls WAATSA. It runs on both Ethereum
and PulseChain.
Trust notes. Non-custodial (it interacts with the Hedron/HEX contracts; your keys stay yours). We found no published third-party audit for Icosa itself — treat unaudited contract interactions with the usual caution, and 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: the stakes are not lost. 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.
Recovering a Staker stake (any one of these works):
- app.safe.global — load your seed on a wallet, import your Safe, end the stake and send the HEX out. The trustless path; 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.
- safe.tshare.app — a dedicated rescue dApp (built by FutureUs, below) to end Staker/Safe stakes on Ethereum or PulseChain and transfer funds out; an alternate copy exists at safe.gigatheminter.com.
We keep a full technical write-up of Staker’s architecture and recovery in our knowledge base, and helping stranded Staker users is a planned project.
TShare.app
TShare.app (staking interface at go.tshare.app) is a gamified HEX front-end — its own page is titled “HEX Mining,” reframing staking as mining T-Shares. It is built by FutureUs (co-founder of TShare App and SmartVaultMe) and associated with community researcher Mati Allin, and is run as a non-profit, fee-free app.
Its angle is approachability and game theory: a fiat on-ramp (via Stripe — we observed the integration directly in the app’s published code, alongside the genuine HEX contract address and both Ethereum and PulseChain networks) to go from money to staked T-Shares quickly, and 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). (Apple Pay / debit-card and KYC specifics are from the project’s own descriptions; we haven’t run a purchase ourselves.)
FutureUs also operates safe.tshare.app, the Staker-App rescue tool noted above — so the same builder that runs a live staking frontend also built the lifeboat for a defunct one.
Trust notes. Non-custodial (a UI over your own wallet and the immutable HEX contract). As with any frontend, verify the contract you sign against and never enter a seed phrase. 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 2026-07-20 and may drift. Treat it as a map for your own due diligence, not a recommendation.
| Project | Type | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEXmob (hexmob.win) | Staking frontend | Live¹ | One of the oldest third-party HEX UIs; many wallets via WalletConnect. Creator not verified by us. |
| GoPulse (gopulse.com) | Frontend + “PulseChain Suite” | Defunct | Began as PLSBurn; stake frontend, portfolio, explorer. Reported dead. |
| Helgo.io | Staking frontend | Live¹ | Simple PulseChain HEX UI (MetaMask, Rabby). |
| HEXcrypto (Hex Toys) | Staking frontend | Live¹ | Open-source; anyone can self-deploy the code. |
| Hexscout | Frontend + portfolio | Live¹ | Web + Android; reads Hedron and Maximus derivatives too. |
| stakehex.today | Staking frontend | Live¹ | Minimal public information. |
| Maximus Pool Party (app.hexpool.party · $PARTY) | Pooled stakes | Contracts live; project inactive² | Launch/join community HEX stake pools; “Party Starters” create custom-named pool tokens. |
| Maximus DAO (maximus.cash · MAXI/DECI/LUCKY/TRIO/BASE) | Pooled-stake derivatives | Live¹ | Trustlessly pooled fixed-length stakes as fungible, liquid HEX “bonds.” |
| Hedron (hedron.pro · HDRN) | Tokenized-stake protocol | Live¹ | Wraps a stake as an HSI and mints HDRN; the base layer Icosa and Actuator build on. |
| Communis (communis.app · COM) | Stake-linked mint | Live¹ | Mint COM by staking or ending HEX. |
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, ~34 transfers in ~5 days, checked 2026-07-20), so existing pooled stakes remain interactable — but the $PARTY token market has collapsed (−98% from its Feb-2024 high, ~no exchange trading for ~2 weeks): the platform is economically inactive. Immutable contracts can outlive their community — verify any specific pool on-chain before trusting it.
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 — vet the specific pool contract, not just the platform.
Before you trust any frontend
- Does it ask for your seed phrase? It never should. Walk away if it does.
- Is it non-custodial? Staking should happen from your wallet into the HEX contract — no deposit to the app.
- Verify the contract address you’re signing against (
0x2b59…Eeb39). - Unaudited is common here — know what you’re interacting with; smaller/newer apps carry more smart-contract risk.
- Read-only first. You can always look before you sign.
Run these on 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.