Ethereum Active Stake Rose 361,000 ETH From Sept. 30 to Oct. 30

Ethereum’s active effective stake rose by an estimated 360,945 Ether (ETH) from the Sept. 30 to Oct. 30 UTC daily closes, even as the broader consensus-layer balance fell by about 79,837 ETH.

Reconstructed estimates put active stake at 43,737,996 ETH on Sept. 30 and 44,098,941 ETH on Oct. 30. The broader balance moved from 45,584,361 ETH to 45,504,524 ETH. The figures are rounded to whole ETH and calculated from published staking-share and supply series.

Active stake counts the effective balances of validators participating in consensus. The broader total also includes queued deposits, balances above effective-balance caps, and validators waiting to activate or exit.

Active stake represented 35.82% of ETH supply on Sept. 30 and 36.09% on Oct. 30. The broader consensus-layer balance’s share of supply moved down from 37.336% to 37.245%.

From Oct. 1 through Oct. 30 UTC, deposit requests totaled 1,400,947 ETH. Payments in the “principal withdrawn” category totaled 1,511,710 ETH, leaving a net outflow of 110,763 ETH.

That category includes full balances paid to exited validators and requested partial withdrawals, which can include accumulated rewards. It excludes automatic payouts of excess rewards.

These request and payment totals do not directly measure a same-period change in active stake. Deposits can top up validators already active or wait in the activation queue. Validators exit the active set before their balances are paid out, so the timing of a withdrawal can differ from the date when stake stops being active.

Compounding validators can retain rewards in effective balances up to 2,048 ETH; legacy validators have a 32 ETH cap. Retained rewards can lift active effective stake without an equivalent new deposit. The aggregate figures do not break down October’s increase among activations, rewards, consolidations or other balance changes.

Because entry and exit requests pass through queues, request volume alone does not identify when a validator’s effective balance changed. The estimated wait is a snapshot of entry conditions on Nov. 2, not an October average.

A Nov. 2 snapshot at 11:54 a.m. ET (16:54 UTC) showed 1,101,783 ETH in the entry queue, with an estimated 19.6-day wait. A separate Oct. 9-15 weekly net-outflow measure showed 377,100 ETH in outflows. That tally covered a shorter window and used different measures, so it is not a like-for-like comparison with October’s 110,763 ETH outflow.