The clarity also opened the floodgates for institutions, with Figment's dominance over other liquid-staking protocols suggesting that institutional inflows were beginning to drive the sector.Trading volume for ENA trading pairs doubled in the past 24 hours to $1 billion, while LDO is up by 83% to $256 million, according to CoinMarketCap.The surge in volume coupled with bitcoin (BTC) and ether's (ETH) ability to hold key levels of support bodes well for the altcoin sector in general, although it's worth noting that the ether validator queue remains extremely high at 825,580 ETH ($3.8 billion).When these ether tokens are unstaked, they can either be sold on the open market as a form of profit-taking, or staked elsewhere to generate a higher yield — the former would likely halt any further moves to the upside.Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/0 ... ing-tokens