Ethereum stakingIssuance APR
2.55%
Consensus layer only
Staking
Ethereum staking
What the consensus layer pays for staked ETH, computed from the chain’s own spec constants and the balance actually staked. There is no per-validator rate on this page, and that absence is deliberate — the beacon chain reports none.
What the chain is paying
Total staked
42.42METH
902,651 active validators
Entry queue
1KETH
about 30 minutes to get in
Queue rate
256ETH / epoch
The protocol's cap on entering or leaving
Not an estimate. Consensus issuance is a closed form in one quantity —64 × 82,181 ÷ √balance— where the factor and the epoch length come from the chain’s spec and the balance is the active set this platform indexes. Every input is observed.
Why the rate falls on its own
The square root is the design
Doubling the amount staked does not double what the protocol issues — it multiplies it by the square root of two. So the rate per staked ETH falls as more is staked, and it moves without anything changing about any validator.
At the 42.42M ETH staked today that puts issuance near 2.6%. Four times as much staked would be half the rate.
The queue meters ETH, not validators
Since Electra a single validator can hold up to 2,048 ETH, so a count of validators ahead of you says nothing about the wait. The queue right now is 37 validators holding 1,184 ETH — which is what sets the 30 minutes wait.
The protocol lets a fixed amount of balance in and out each epoch, so the wait is the queue divided by that rate.
What this figure is not
It is not a validator’s total return
A validator also earns execution-layer tips and, for most, MEV. Both are paid outside the protocol’s own accounting and are invisible in anything measured here — and they are frequently the larger half of the total.
They are named rather than estimated. Publishing the half that is exact, and saying which half is missing, is the honest version of a number other sites give in full without saying where it came from.
There is no leaderboard here
Solana reports what it paid each validator, and each BNB Smart Chain validator keeps a ledger — so both have a per-validator page. Solana and BSC are those.
Ethereum reports neither. Rewards arrive as balance changes, and this platform stores effective balance, which is quantised to whole ETH; recording actual balances for 902,651 validators whose balance moves every epoch would be about 43 million rows a day. A per-validator figure would have to be modelled, and a modelled number among measured ones is worse than none.
Consensus-layer issuance only. A validator also earns execution-layer tips and, for most, MEV — both paid outside the protocol's own accounting and invisible in anything measured here, and frequently the larger half. They are named rather than estimated. There is no per-validator rate on this chain: rewards arrive as balance changes and nothing on the beacon chain reports what any one validator earned. Full methodology