Seeing “850,000 ETH queued to exit”—don’t treat it as a sell order for tonight’s spot market. If you actually have a staked position, the question to ask is: once you click exit now, how long until you get back usable ETH?
As of 22:08 Beijing time, the validator queue page shows about 823,000 ETH waiting to exit, with an estimated wait of 14 days and 7 hours; the page was last updated about two hours ago. Once the queue is cleared, the validator duties are completed, but the balance still has to wait until it reaches a withdrawable state, after which it is transferred on-chain in batches. MetaMask said on September 30 that, due to a security incident affecting some infrastructure, it is proactively exiting affected validators; the announcement didn’t say anything about selling the tokens after exiting.
If you participate via a staking pool, your actual received funds will also depend on the provider’s redemption rules and available liquidity. The exit queue is a withdrawal progress tracker, not a trade execution order. First, check when the platform you use allows redemptions and when the funds will be available; based on queue numbers alone, you can’t infer the ETH price movement in the next hour.
As of 22:08 Beijing time, the validator queue page shows about 823,000 ETH waiting to exit, with an estimated wait of 14 days and 7 hours; the page was last updated about two hours ago. Once the queue is cleared, the validator duties are completed, but the balance still has to wait until it reaches a withdrawable state, after which it is transferred on-chain in batches. MetaMask said on September 30 that, due to a security incident affecting some infrastructure, it is proactively exiting affected validators; the announcement didn’t say anything about selling the tokens after exiting.
If you participate via a staking pool, your actual received funds will also depend on the provider’s redemption rules and available liquidity. The exit queue is a withdrawal progress tracker, not a trade execution order. First, check when the platform you use allows redemptions and when the funds will be available; based on queue numbers alone, you can’t infer the ETH price movement in the next hour.