Verdict
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
stakestone-stake.vercel.app is low-trust and potentially risky.
Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: Not recorded
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 84 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | AMAZON-02Server in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is a single-page staking front end, titled "StakeStone Staking — Omnichain Liquid Staking for ETH, BTC & Stablecoins". It is served from a free subdomain on a general-purpose application-hosting platform rather than from a dedicated brand domain. The homepage carries a substantial amount of text promoting liquid staking across several asset classes. Its apparent purpose is to attract visitors to stake or deposit crypto-assets through a decentralized-finance style interface.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The decisive adverse signal is a confirmed external reputation problem. Multiple independent threat-intelligence engines currently flag the site as malicious or suspicious, and it is blacklisted by external reputation sources. A site that presents a staking product, asks visitors to commit digital assets, and carries these detections warrants a clearly cautionary posture. No impersonation of a named brand was confirmed, and no conflicting legal identities were found. The risk therefore rests on the blacklisting, not on identity contradictions. The page title borrows the vocabulary of an established staking protocol, but the site is not linked to any verified real-world operator. A free platform subdomain gives no assurance that the page is the protocol's official interface, which makes it a convenient vehicle for look-alike staking pages. A separate set of abuse reports exists, but it attaches to a shared platform IP address, not to this site specifically. It is treated as background noise from shared infrastructure and discounted. In sandbox testing the page made no external requests, triggered no wallet-connection prompts, and showed no clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, or cloaking. This lowers the likelihood of an automated drainer on the landing page, but it does not offset the blacklisting. A staking front end that behaves cleanly on a first visit can be altered later, and no behavioral test can rule that out.
- Homepage: promotes omnichain liquid staking for ETH, BTC and stablecoins, a product category in which fund-diverting clones are common.
- Threat-intelligence reputation: two engines rate the site malicious and one rates it suspicious, and external blacklist status is confirmed.
- Homepage sandbox runs (3 of 3 successful): zero external requests, zero wallet-connect events, zero console errors, no cloaking.
- Hosting IP reports: 84 abuse reports against a shared platform IP (216.198.79.67), discounted as shared-infrastructure noise.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents no verifiable licensing, registration, or regulatory standing, and no regulatory source links it to a supervised entity. Third-party broker-reputation data shows no match, which is neutral here and neither supports nor contradicts the site. Staking and yield products that accept customer assets are regulated activities in many jurisdictions. The absence of any identifiable operator is therefore material to anyone considering a deposit. Page analysis could not independently tie the site to a real-world brand or person. Claims of affiliation with an established protocol must be treated as unconfirmed until verified outside the site.
- Homepage: no regulator, license, or registered-entity disclosure was established for the operator, and identity could not be independently verified.
- Hosting: served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US), registry ARIN, on a shared platform subdomain.
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate is issued by WR1 (DV, domain-validated only) and valid to 2026-11-27. DV confirms control of the domain, not the identity of the operator.
- Broker-reputation lookup: no match found, so no third-party signal is available either way.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction beyond viewing, the claimed protocol affiliation should be tested against the official channels. Those are the protocol's documentation, its verified social accounts, and its canonical domain, reached independently and not through links on this page. The prospective user should confirm that the official project actually operates a staking interface at this address. Any supervisory registry in the relevant jurisdiction should be searched for the operator, and the contract addresses shown on the page should be compared with those published by the official project. Official support channels should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced route.
- Homepage: the staking product is presented without an operator name that can be checked against a registry.
- Hosting: the page lives on a platform-assigned subdomain, so domain ownership gives no link to the protocol.
- External reputation: current malicious and suspicious detections should be re-checked at decision time, because listings change.
Summary Verdict
The site carries an elevated risk posture. Confirmed adverse reputation from external detection sources outweighs the benign technical behavior observed. The legitimacy of the operator is unestablished, and the available evidence does not support treating the site as the official interface of the protocol it names.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through a trusted CDN and edge platform running on Amazon-operated address space (AS16509). All eight observed addresses are edge servers, and no origin server is visible. This protective layer, together with a valid and correctly formed TLS certificate, is a mitigating factor for transport security and availability. It says nothing about the intent or identity of the operator. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent verification of where the content is hosted and can mask rapid content changes.
Closing Assessment
The site should be limited to read-only viewing. No wallet should be connected, no credentials entered, no assets deposited, and no transaction signed, until the operator and the official status of the interface are independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership.
01 External reputation
- Several malware engines flagged this domain.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH
02 Behaviour in a sandbox
- A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE
03 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 84 reports on hosting IP 216.198.79.67 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNKNOWN |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 30% |
- AI page analysis unavailable (page captured; identity not AI-verified)
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of stakestone-stake.vercel.app.
- The request stayed on stakestone-stake.vercel.app. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 216.198.79.67 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 8 |
| Edge IP addresses | 8 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-27 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 84 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about stakestone-stake.vercel.app at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.