Nearly 2.88 million ETH are queued for staking on Ethereum, with new entrants facing a 50-day wait.

Odaily reported that according to beaconcha.in data, approximately 2.8841 million ETH are currently in the Ethereum validator entry queue awaiting staking. Based on the rate of processing 256 validators per epoch, new participants must wait 50 days and 2 hours before officially beginning staking. The exit queue holds only 89,800 ETH, with an exit waiting period of 1 day and 13 hours, and it will take an additional 7.7 days for funds to complete automatic withdrawals. Currently, there are approximately 888,000 active validators on the network, with a total staked ETH volume of 39.5 million, accounting for 32.45% of the total ETH supply. The current annualized staking yield is 2.74%.