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Lido has announced support for 1inch as a withdrawals aggregator. 1inch will allow ETH stakes to skip the withdrawal queues with instant swaps between staked Ether (stETH)/wrapped staked Ether (stETH) and Ethereum (ETH. Lido, the top liquidity staking protocol for Ethereum, has announced support for 1inch as a withdrawal s aggregator . The Lido team noted in their announcement on Wednesday that adding the decentralized exchange aggregator allows users to access instant swaps for their staked Ether (stETH) and wrapped staked Ether(wstETH). The feature also works for Ethereum (ETH). “ 1inch is a DeFi aggregator optimised for Ethereum, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon and other chains. By aggregating prices across hundreds of DEXs, 1inch guarantee you the best rates for all trades ,” Lido posted on X. ETH stakers on Lido can unstake their st ETH or wst ETH via DeFi aggregator s, which allows them to skip withdrawal queues by enabling st ETH to ET...

A majority of the validators are withdrawing their staking rewards rather than the whole 32 staked ETH. Ethereum mainnet successfully completed the Shapella upgrade on April 12. The successful execution of the Shapella upgrade means Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether on the Beacon chain. A total of 126,955.07 ETH were withdrawn by validators at the time of writing. Presently, 248,043 out of the 559,549 active validators, or about 44% of them, have the ability to request a partial or full withdrawal. The majority of withdrawals currently vary between 2.8- 3.2 ETH, indicating the majority of the validators are only withdrawing their staking rewards. Total staked ETH withdrawal. Source: beaconcha.in The average price of staked ETH is $3,149 and it could be another reason why validators are not withdrawing the whole amount. The ETH price is currently trading just under $2,000 with the price acting as key resistance. Staked ETH data and exchange holdings. Source:...

FTX EU was only approved by the Cyprus regulator in March, 2022, about seven months before FTX collapsed in November. The European arm of FTX, FTX EU has launched a website to allow European customers to submit withdraw al requests. It comes nearly five months after the global trading platform collapsed and went bankrupt in early November. The new website domain name — https://ftxeurope.eu/ — was reportedly approved by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission according to a report in Finance Magnates. A screenshot of the newly launched website to withdraw funds from FTX EU. Source: FTX Europe The new domain will not offer any products or services other than to pay back impacted customers, the report said, referencing an email received by FTX Europe. "Please be informed that our new domain, www.ftxeurope.eu, has been approved by our regulator CySEC as you have well identified. The website will only be used for all FTX EU LTD clients to be able to claim their FIAT balances....