Validators

Contents

• Count of Senders to CL Contract

• Total Unique Senders to CL Contract

• Active Exiting Validators

• Active Validators

• Slashed Validators

• Validator Count

• Daily Added Validators

• Daily Removed Validators

• Inactive Ineligible Validators

• Inactive Eligible Validators

• Validators Pending Eligibility

• Validator in Activation Queue

• Full Participation Issuance

Count of Senders to CL Contract

Definition

Count of new addresses that have sent to the Consensus Layer (CL) contract.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Count of Senders to CL Contract	SenderCntCLCont	Validators	1 day

Details

• Unique count of new addresses that have sent to the Consensus Layer (CL) smart contract (0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa) over the daily interval, sourced from Coin Metrics ATLAS™ blockchain search engine.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

Availability for Assets

• N/A

Total Unique Senders to CL Contract

Definition

Unique count of all senders to the Consensus Layer (CL) contract.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Total Unique Senders to CL Contract	SenderTotCLCont	Validators	1 day

Details

• Unique count of all senders to the Consensus Layer (CL) smart contract (0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa) over the daily interval, sourced from Coin Metrics ATLAS™ blockchain search engine.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

Availability for Assets

• N/A

Active Exiting Validators

Definition

Validators who have filed a voluntary request to exit.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Active Exiting Validators	ValidatorActExtCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of active ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that have filed a voluntary request to exit.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Active Validators

Definition

Validators that are actively participating.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Active Validators	ValidatorActOngCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that have completed the activation queue.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Slashed Validators

Definition

Slashed validators scheduled to exit.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Slashed Validators	ValidatorActSlhCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that have been slashed and are scheduled to exit.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Validator Count

Definition

Count of all validators.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Validator Count	ValidatorCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Number of validators on the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL).

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Daily Added Validators

Definition

Count of validators added daily.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Daily Added Validators	ValidatorAddCnt1d	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Number of validators added to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) on a daily interval.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Daily Removed Validators

Definition

Count of validators removed daily.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Daily Removed Validators	ValidatorRemCnt1d	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Number of validators removed from the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) on a daily interval.

• This figure will remain low until withdrawals are enabled, capturing mostly slashing.

• Captures number of validators with 'exited' status and 'exited slashed' status.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Inactive Ineligible Validators

Definition

Validators that have been slashed and are no longer active.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Inactive Ineligible Validators	ValidatorExtSlhCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that have been slashed and are no longer active.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Inactive Eligible Validators

Definition

Validators that have not been slashed but are no longer active.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Inactive Eligible Validators	ValidatorExtUnslhCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that have not been slashed but are no longer active.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Validators Pending Eligibility

Definition

Validators pending eligibility.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Validators Pending Eligibility	ValidatorPndInitCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators with ineligible status that are in the activation queue.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Validator in Activation Queue

Definition

Validators waiting in the activation queue

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Validators in Activation Queue	ValidatorPndQedCnt	Validators	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• Count of ETH Consensus Layer (CL) validators that are waiting in the activation queue.

Release History

• Released September 2022.

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Full Participation Issuance

Definition

Maximum daily protocol issuance on the Ethereum consensus layer (beacon chain) as a function of the number of active validators.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Full Participation Issuance	IssFullParticipation	Native Units	1 day, 1 hour

Release History

• Initially released November 2023.

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API Endpoints

Validator metrics can be accessed using these endpoints:

• timeseries/asset-metrics

and by passing in the metric ID's Validator* in the metrics parameter.

Shell

curl --compressed "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?metrics=ValidatorActExtCnt&assets=eth&pretty=true&api_key=<your_key>"

Python

import requests
response = requests.get('https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?metrics=ValidatorActExtCnt&assets=eth&pretty=true&api_key=<your_key>').json()
print(response)

Python Client

from coinmetrics.api_client import CoinMetricsClient

api_key = "<API_KEY>"
client = CoinMetricsClient(api_key)

print(
    client.get_asset_metrics(
        metrics="ValidatorActExtCnt", 
        assets="eth",
    ).to_dataframe()
)