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#以太坊验证者退出队列已降至零 Ethereum validators leaving the queue to zero is quite something worth pondering. Here are a few key figures. In September 2025, the exit queue backlog peaked at 2.67 million ETH, valued at about $11.7 billion. And now? 0. Retreat whenever you want, no one leaves. Meanwhile, the entry queue is about 2.499 million ETH, requiring 43 days to get in. With one entry and one out, the difference was over two million coins. Currently, about 40.8 million ETH have been staked across the network, accounting for 33.49% of the total supply, with 883724 active validators and an annualized staking yield of 2.64%. The motivation for quitting is often selling for cash or lacking confidence in the internet. No one is lining up to exit, which means these stakers aren't in a rush to cash out now; they feel it's more cost-effective to take the pledge returns than to sell. Some people are lining up to enter, which means there are nearly 2.5 million ETH outside wanting to be locked up. A network no one wants to enter, and a threshold that many people want to enter—this signal is more direct than any candlestick chart. And there's a bigger background to this—Ethereum ETFs had accumulated net inflows of $10.48 billion by mid-July. Institutions are buying ETFs, major players are staking, and both forces are simultaneously draining liquidity. Wallet addresses are decreasing, and tradable ETH is decreasing. A few days ago, Vitalik also proposed an "extreme streamlined chain," aiming to compress each validator's state to about 6 bytes and replace cyclical updates with ZK proofs, aiming to scale validators to the millions. It seems the team itself is preparing for a larger lock-up. The staking yield is 2.64%, which isn't high, but combined with ETH's expected appreciation, it is indeed attractive for long-term capital. These people aren't quitting not because they don't want to sell, but because they feel now is not the time to sell.