With more than a month having passed since the Shanghai upgrade on the Ethereum mainnet, which allowed Ethereum validators to withdraw all or part of their staked Ether (ETH) tokens from the staking smart contract for the first time, demand for ETH staking has skyrocketed. According to data from wenmerge.com, the waiting time for Ethereum owners to become new validators has soared to 27 days and 7 hours, with the number of potential validators currently in the queue at 50,398.
