Catenaa, Monday, December 29, 2025- mETH Protocol, a top-ten ETH liquid restaking provider with a peak TVL of $2.19 billion, has unveiled a major liquidity upgrade designed to accelerate ETH redemptions and optimize yield deployment through a curated Buffer Pool mechanism.
The upgrade allows small to medium ETH withdrawals to be processed within an estimated 24 hours, a significant improvement over the 5-20 day exit queues common to native staking and most liquid staking tokens.
The Buffer Pool is continuously replenished via Aave’s ETH lending market, enabling near-instant liquidity for redemptions and maintaining competitive ETH base yields. Larger institutional withdrawals are supported through direct access to Aave reserves.
Approximately 20% of mETH Protocol’s TVL will be allocated to Aave in stages, combining staking rewards with supply interest to ensure deeper and more responsive liquidity.
Withdrawals follow a first-in, first-out system, and in periods of extreme demand, transactions revert to standard on-chain exit queues.
The upgrade strengthens mETH Protocol’s position as a liquidity-focused staking token built for institutional-grade access, custody, and utility. Key features include support from Tier-1 custodians such as Fireblocks, Anchorage, Copper, and OSL, integration with major exchanges like Bybit and Kraken, and composability across on-chain strategies.
The protocol is embedded in over 40 leading DeFi and exchange platforms and contributes to major restaking networks including EigenLayer and Symbiotic.
Jonathan Low, Growth Lead at mETH Protocol, stated that the Buffer Pool transforms the protocol into an efficient ETH liquidity gateway, bridging institutional asset management with decentralized finance while preserving composability and yield performance.
