List of Flash News about ETH futures basis
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2025-08-14 20:42 |
Ethereum (ETH) Validator Exit Queue Explained: Hours-to-Weeks Wait, Churn Limits, and Trading Risks in 2025
According to @Excellion, Ethereum validator exits can clear in a few hours to a day when the queue is light, but during high-demand waves they can extend to days or weeks with first-come processing, creating a big door in, small door out dynamic, source: @Excellion on X, Aug 14, 2025. Ethereum’s protocol applies an activation and exit churn limit that caps how many validators can leave per epoch, mechanically pacing withdrawals and lengthening wait times as exit requests rise, source: Ethereum.org Staking documentation. During prior market stress, liquid staking tokens such as stETH traded below par versus ETH when redemptions were constrained, highlighting liquidity and basis risk tied to exit bottlenecks, source: Kaiko Research June 2022. Historically, these constraints have paced ETH sell flow over multiple days and coincided with wider LST discounts and weaker futures basis, reflecting the throttle imposed by the exit queue, source: Ethereum.org Staking documentation and Kaiko Research. |