Ethereum has recently become the focus of institutional players. A leading institution purchased 12,166 ETH from a well-known platform, investing a real sum of $38.09 million; at the same time, major staking service provider BitMine added an additional 82,560 ETH to the stake, pushing the Ethereum validator queue close to the 1 million mark. They have already staked a total of 544,064 ETH.

Meanwhile, top financial giants like BlackRock and Fidelity can no longer sit still. Although they have differing views on the four-year cycle of Bitcoin, they surprisingly agree on the market outlook—both are optimistic. Even more impressive, a major exchange openly stated that the total market size of stablecoins could reach $1.2 trillion.

The series of actions clearly reflect that institutions are not just watching but are making real bets with actual money. As the core of on-chain ecology, Ethereum is entering a new window for institutional allocation. The rising validator queue indicates enhanced network security, and the expanding staking scale also shows that participants' confidence in long-term returns is increasing. Coupled with top financial institutions' optimism about the stablecoin niche, the entire crypto market's institutional deployment has entered a new stage.