List of Flash News about Ethereum validator exit queue
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2025-09-16 21:13 |
Ethereum (ETH) Validator Exit Queue Surges: First Post-Withdrawals Net Unstake; Liquidity Rises, Staking APR Set to Increase — Short-Term Bearish, Long-Term Bullish
According to @MilkRoadDaily, Ethereum’s validator exit queue has spiked, with more validators attempting to unstake than enter for the first time since withdrawals went live (source: @MilkRoadDaily). The source attributes outflows to rotations into ETH ETFs that do not require staking exposure, moves toward higher yields in tokenized treasuries, and operational reshuffling by some providers (source: @MilkRoadDaily). As a result, more ETH is returning to liquid markets and staking APR will adjust higher in real time as validators leave (source: @MilkRoadDaily). The source characterizes the near term as bearish due to increased liquid supply, and the long term as bullish as higher yields draw capital back, marking Ethereum’s first real stress test of its staking design (source: @MilkRoadDaily). |
2025-08-15 00:23 |
ETH Unstaking Warning: 768,400 ETH in Exit Queue ($3.5B) as @Excellion Flags ETHBTC 0.03 Risk
According to @Excellion, as of August 14, 2025, 768,400 ETH are in Ethereum’s validator exit queue, roughly 3.5 billion dollars, signaling a notable unstaking pipeline, source: @Excellion on X Aug 15, 2025. According to @Excellion, this setup could pressure the ETHBTC pair, with a potential reversion to 0.03 or lower, which indicates relative downside risk for ETH versus BTC, source: @Excellion on X Aug 15, 2025. According to the source, the flippening will not occur, aligning the thesis toward BTC outperformance, source: @Excellion on X Aug 15, 2025. According to Ethereum’s staking withdrawal design, validators that enter the exit queue become eligible to withdraw after processing, which can increase circulating supply once released, source: Ethereum.org staking withdrawals documentation. |
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. |