After three consecutive months of selling pressure resulting from de-staking, the Ethereum network is showing a positive signal. The stake entry queue has now exceeded the exit queue.
How do analysts interpret this alteration? What could this mean for the ETH price?
Why could ETH potentially double as staking pressure eases?
Ethereum's entry and exit queues track ETH waiting to start staking or unstaking.
Previously, analysts believed that selling pressure could increase if the variety of ETH within the entry queue continued to rise.
ValidatorQueue data shows that the inbound queue has exceeded the outbound queue since September tenth. This trend has now officially reversed the previous imbalance.
There are currently around 745,600 ETH within the inbound queue, while around 360,500 ETH remain within the outbound queue.
Validator Queue (ETH). Source: Validator Queue
Analyst CryptoHuntz described the recent period as a “great migration” of ETH. This move contributed significantly to ETH's regular decline from $4,800 in early September to around $3,000 today.
“The Great Migration is over… finally the selling pressure of the last three months is easing. Demand for ETH staking is back on the forefront. Nature is healing,” said CryptoHuntz.
Additionally, Abdul, Head of DeFi at Monad, gave a more bullish outlook based on historical price behavior.
He estimated that around 5% of the ETH supply, price around $15 billion, has modified hands since July. He also predicted that the validator output queue could reach zero by January third.
Abdul also noted that the last time the entry queue exceeded the exit queue was in June. Shortly afterwards, the value of ETH doubled.
Update:
For the primary time in six months, the ETH validator input queue is now larger than the output queue
The last time this happened was in June, shortly after which the ETH price doubled
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— Abdul (@0x_Abdul) December 28, 2025
This statement suggests that an identical scenario could unfold. ETH could rebound from its current price zone of $3,000.
The outlook is further supported by a recent decision from BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. BitMine has the world's largest ETH treasure, valued at around $12 billion, and has chosen to take part in staking.
BeInCrypto reported that BitMine deposited roughly 74,880 ETH, price roughly $219 million, into the Ethereum staking contract. This amount represents only a small portion of the entire 4.07 million ETH holdings. The goal is to generate a return that might reach $371 million per 12 months if the whole balance were deployed at an APR of three.12%.
Ethereum – total stake value. Source: CryptoQuant.
Data from CryptoQuant shows that the entire amount of ETH deposited by investors into protocols and contracts has remained relatively stable at around 36 million. This level has held since ETH peaked near $4,900. Despite the positive signals mentioned above, it remains to be too early to announce a break from the present sideways trend.
Furthermore, this optimistic scenario could face headwinds. Several on-chain indicators suggest that selling pressure from US investors remains to be present.
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