{
  "v": 1,
  "requestId": "5264fba6-ad1c-4fcb-b643-4419875a9914",
  "chainId": 1,
  "window": {
    "toBlock": 26049166,
    "fromBlock": 26048867,
    "toBlockHash": "0x2d1a88454168f557726377063956116e98c5d2bfc2e2df1962ce77bbd463b2a4"
  },
  "answerType": "uint256",
  "answer": "32",
  "figure": "32",
  "definitions": {
    "denomination": "The answer is a whole number of ETH, not wei, per individual validator.",
    "activation": "This is the required deposit into Ethereum's deposit contract to participate as a validator and enter the activation queue.",
    "launch": "The figure is the Beacon Chain Phase 0 launch-era requirement; later validator-balance changes are not included.",
    "source": "ethereum.org, Proof-of-stake (PoS): https://ethereum.org/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/",
    "window": "The pinned execution-chain window timestamps this historical protocol fact; it is not used to derive the deposit amount."
  },
  "recipe": {
    "kind": "panel",
    "source": "https://ethereum.org/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/"
  },
  "notes": "Read ethereum.org's Proof-of-stake (PoS) validator section, which states that a user must deposit 32 ETH into the deposit contract and then joins the activation queue. Confirmed the pinned chain-1 closing hash at block 26049166 against https://rpc.flashbots.net/fast and https://rpc.mevblocker.io/fast. This is a panel-evidence historical fact as specified by the request, so the panel source—not an event scan—reproduces the figure."
}