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Ethereum\u2019s validator exit queue has fallen to zero again this year, signaling that no existing stakers are unwilling to leave the network.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exit queue has been empty for three days now, between July 18 and 20th, according to on-chain data from ValidatorQueue. The data indicates there is currently no rush among Ethereum stakers to withdraw from the network.\u200b<\/p>\n

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Ethereum exit queue falls to zero again<\/h3>\n

In September 2025, the exit queue backlog reached as high as 2.67 million ETH (approx. $11.7 billion), spurring massive sell-side pressure on the market. Since the peak, however, the Ethereum staking landscape has reversed, with the exit queue dropping to zero in January 2026.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, there are currently 884,440 validators on Ethereum, with more than 40.8 million ETH staked, which represents over 33.51% of ETH\u2019s circulating supply.<\/p>\n

There are an additional 2,499,792 ETH coins waiting to join the active validator list, with a long wait time of up to 43 days and 10 hours, the data<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n

Ethereum prepares to scale past 1 million validators<\/h3>\n

Ethereum staking queues exist partly because the beacon chain has to process and store every validator\u2019s data. Consequently, the validator data climbs as the set grows, which somewhat raises scaling issues when trying to grow the networks to millions of validators.<\/p>\n

On July 26th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin floated a way around it.<\/p>\n

In a post titled \u201cThe Extremely Lean Chain,\u201d Buterin laid out a two-step redesign<\/a> of the beacon chain that would cut per-validator state to roughly 6 bytes, using zero-knowledge proofs, as Cryptopolitan reported.<\/p>\n

The team plans to replace per-epoch balance updates with one daily ZK-STARK proof. They also plan to shift the network\u2019s state-management work to validators so full nodes stay light, leading to a so-called \u201cLean Ethereum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buterin said the redesign will be the third major iteration of Ethereum and \u201cmay allow consensus to scale to millions of validators if needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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