ETH has added over $150 billion to its market capitalization in the first two weeks of August, and ETH whales appear to be rushing to unstake their ETH following yesterday\u2019s attempt to break $4,800.<\/p>\n The Ethereum validator queue\u2019s exit line jumped to its second highest level ever today, Aug. 14, with 220,000 ETH requesting to be unstaked over the last three days. <\/p>\n There is currently more than 728,600 ETH<\/a>, or $3.3 billion, requesting to unstake according to ValidatorQueue, second only to the 743,000 ETH<\/a> validator exit queue all-time high on July 26, as The Defiant previously reported. <\/p>\n As a result, the wait time to exit ETH validator staking is also quite high at the moment, with a nearly 13 day wait time to unstake ETH. Prior to July 2025, the unstaking queue only reached higher than a one day wait time twice, but has been stuck at over a week for all of August.<\/p>\n ETH staking entry requests have ticked up as well over the last few days, but at a far slower pace. Over the last three days there has been an additional 80,000 ETH, or $360 million, being staked to ETH validators.<\/p>\n While the unstaking numbers are hefty, total active validators on Ethereum are still hovering at all-time highs, with more than 1 million active validators, a 20% increase<\/a> since the start of 2024.<\/p>\n ETH\u2019s price charge is being spurred on<\/a> by a revitalized institutional bid, led by Tom Lee\u2019s BitMine, which just filed to raise its total ETH treasury target by another $20 billion.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ETH validator queue\u2019s exit line jumped over the last 48 hours. ETH has added over $150 billion to its market capitalization in the first two weeks of August, and ETH whales appear to be rushing to unstake their ETH following yesterday\u2019s attempt to break $4,800. ETH 7-day price chart. Source: CoinGecko. The Ethereum validator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-401937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401943,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401937\/revisions\/401943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the-defiant\"](\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.thedefiant.io%2Fad_4nxecp732rnne3gk24nlc8skyef57ekfmbaavhdofx0bx0yib7yjhigxq-2acfd6d8-e3da-460b-9ea8-0099b3d40a94.png&w=1920&q=100\"\/)