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Where does a validator's reward go once it is earned?
On Ethereum, it builds up on the validator's balance. Each block can carry up to 16 automatic payouts, and the network works through every validator in order. With 812,813 active validators, one full pass takes about a week.
Since the Pectra upgrade in May 2025, a validator has a second option. With compounding withdrawal credentials, rewards stay staked and keep earning, up to a balance of 2,048 ETH.
Today 24,462 active validators use it, about 3% of the total.
For an $ETHx holder, there is nothing to collect and no payout to wait for. Rewards from Stader validators are added to the ETHx exchange rate.
1 ETHx was worth 1.0998 ETH on 23 October. Today it is worth 1.1011 ETH.
staderlabs.com/eth
Let us understand the Ethereum entry queue and why it matters.
Ethereum lets only 256 ETH begin staking per epoch, about 57,600 ETH a day. Anything above that waits in a queue. Today 1,074,917 ETH is waiting, about 19 days.
It matters because the queue sets how soon new ETH starts earning rewards.
On 23 October the wait was about 24 days, with 1,378,944 ETH in line. It is now 22% shorter. The exit queue holds 32,643 ETH, under two days.
The queue applies to ETH that starts staking. It does not apply to a token.
$ETHx trades on decentralised exchanges, so a holder can buy or sell without joining either queue, and staking rewards are added to the exchange rate.
Redemptions change for NearX, BNBx and MaticX on 29 October 2026.
We are rolling out a few product updates for all sunset products - NearX, BNBx and MaticX on Oct 29, 2026:
NearX and BNBx move from on-chain withdrawals to a verified claims process. You can still withdraw through the contracts, with no fee, before 29 October.
MaticX withdrawals stay on-chain, and its exchange rate is fixed at 1.2002 POL per MaticX.
You can find more details about each of them in our blog post - staderlabs.com/blog/redempti…
Validator rewards on Ethereum are not paid evenly.
Every validator earns a small reward for attesting, once every epoch, and that is most of its income. Proposing a block pays far more at once, including the fees in that block.
Proposers are picked at random, weighted by stake.
A validator with 32 ETH proposes about two blocks a year on average, but chance decides when. About one in seven goes a full year without proposing a block. Nearly a third propose three or more.
$ETHx is backed by 2,273 active validators (permissioned +permissionless). Together they propose about 12 blocks a day, so the chance evens out.
The rewards from all of them go into one exchange rate. An ETHx holder earns the average across 2,273 validators, not the luck of one.
Staking on Hedera works differently from staking on most proof-of-stake networks. Staked HBAR never leaves the account, and there is no bonding, no lock-up and no slashing.
About 12.96 billion HBAR is staked today, roughly 29% of the released supply.
How rewards reach the holder. Native staking rewards are paid when the account changes: when HBAR is sent or received, or when the staking settings are updated.
An account must be staked for a full 24-hour period to earn.
What $HBARX changes. HBARX adds staking rewards to its exchange rate, so the holder does not need to trigger or collect anything.
The holder keeps a token that can be used on-chain, including in the HBARX/HBAR pool on SaucerSwap.
staderlabs.com/hedera
US spot ETH ETFs have been staking for a year. One fund has paid out more than $33 million in staking rewards since it started staking last October.
What the holder can do with it. ETF shares sit in a brokerage account and cannot be used on-chain. ETHx can be used as collateral, can provide liquidity on Curve, and can be restaked through rsETH for a second return on top of the staking rate.
The ETF pays its rewards out once a month. ETHx adds them to the token every day, and the token can be used on-chain while it earns.
staderlabs.com/eth
