More than 90,000 validators are waiting to provide protocol validation services on Ethereum, causing congestion for validators to enter and begin staking in the protocol. This means a validator entering the queue today must wait more than 46 days to be activated and begin its tasks.

The growth in the number of validators waiting in the queue is related to the staking strategy executed by Celsius, a former cryptocurrency lender, which has staked almost 93% of its received ether. Despite this issue, the interest in Ethereum staking is predicted to keep rising.