What Staked Ether is
Staked Ether (STETH) is a liquid-staking / restaking derivative token, currently ranked 11th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Staked Ether is a liquid-staking token: it represents staked capital (usually ETH) while staying tradeable, so holders earn staking yield without locking their funds. Its value is the underlying stake plus accrued rewards.
How the yield and peg work
Staked Ether tracks the value of the staked asset plus rewards, so it should trade at or slightly above the underlying. A discount usually signals withdrawal-queue stress or smart-contract risk rather than a broken model.
Where Staked Ether sits in the market
With STETH near $1,574, Staked Ether carries a market capitalization of $13.46B. Around $6.16M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 0.05% of the float — on the quieter side, which can mean thinner liquidity for large orders.
What the price history shows
Recent moves read 24-hour -2.52%, 7-day -4.70%.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Staked Ether in the Moderate-volatility band — it shows the kind of price movement common in mid-cap crypto assets — meaningful but not unusual.
How to evaluate a liquid-staking token like Staked Ether
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Peg to underlying — whether STETH trades close to the value of the stake it represents.
- Provider risk — the smart-contract and validator risk of the staking protocol behind STETH.
- Yield and unlocks — the staking yield and how withdrawal queues behave under stress.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
