Over 1.3 million staked tokens remain stranded onchain after a major validator missed its deadline to exit Aztec

DV Labs’ planned Aug. 15 Aztec exit was still incomplete by 2 a.m. UTC on Aug. 16: seven DV Labs-listed attesters remained in the on-chain VALIDATING state with 1.386 million AZTEC in effective stake.

The infrastructure operator announced the wind-down on July 16 and asked delegators to begin exiting by Aug. 5. DV Labs said late delegators would be penalized, but the available evidence does not identify a mechanism for that penalty or show that missing Aug. 5 caused a principal loss or any observed balance reduction.

Aztec’s staking dashboard provider feed still attributed 16 delegations and 3.2 million AZTEC to DV Labs at the observation time. The API does not establish that all of that stake belonged to unrelated third parties, and its provider total cannot be reconciled one-for-one with canonical attester status. Direct reads of the canonical Rollup contract returned seven DV Labs-listed attesters as VALIDATING, none as EXITING or ZOMBIE, and 62 as absent from the set. Nine of the API’s 16 delegations remained unclassified from the canonical view, so no full provider-exit completion time could be established.

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