Presented by Amir Forouzani, Co-Founder at Puffer Labs Date: October 7, 2026 Location: Agentic Settlement Night at Token2049 Singapore

Fireside Chat Participants: • Amir Forouzani, Cofounder at Puffer Labs • Richard Widmann, Head of Strategy Web3 at Google • Carl Jiang, Head of Institutional & Protocol Solutions at Anchorage Digital Date: October 7, 2026 Location: Agentic Settlement Night at Token2049 Singapore

Panelists: • Amir Forouzani, Cofounder at Puffer Labs • Zach Pendl, Head of Research at Greyscale • Michael Egorov, Founder at Curve • Zhen Yu Yong, Senior Director AI at Metamask • Lucas Gaylord, Cofounder at Worldmarkets Date: October 7, 2026 Location: Agentic Settlement Night at Token2049 Singapore

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.