Staking plays a fundamental role in how Ethereum works. But what happens when those same assets can be used to support more than one function across the network? In this episode of Crypto Clarified, Dovile Silenskyte and Vinh Tran speak with Amir Forouzani, co-founder and CEO of Puffer Finance, about staking, liquid staking, restaking and the infrastructure being built around Ethereum. The conversation starts with the fundamentals, from why validators matter to how proof of stake helps secure the network, before exploring how liquid staking can make staked assets more accessible and flexible. Amir then explains the concept of restaking, where validators can take on additional responsibilities in return for additional rewards, alongside additional risks.

Amir Forouzani (Puffer Finance) makes the case that institutional capital is ready to move on-chain - $300B+ in stablecoins, $200B in tokenized RWA, and ETH staking becoming the reference rate. But the on-ramps keep failing: $500M+ drained in the last DeFi exploit cycle, almost entirely due to opsec failures, not protocol design. He breaks down what's actually breaking — hot keys, operator opacity, and composability blast radius — and explains how Puffer is building the security architecture to fix it: time locks, validator bond modules, hardware-secured guardians, and a 3-layer defense where all three must fail before user funds move. Yield You Can Underwrite with Amir Forouzani at the Digital Asset Yield Summit Miami 2026.

Discussion around how rollups achieve fast execution backed by Ethereum economics and what this unlocks for institutions entering ETH staking.

In this episode of Decypher, Jack sits down with Puffer’s co-founder, Amir, to unpack how Puffer’s innovative rollup-plus-liquid-staking protocol aims to scale and revolutionize Ethereum.

Puffer raises $5.5M

In this episode, we cover Ethereum native liquid restaking protocol, Puffer Finance.