Puffer Finance is an Ethereum liquid restaking and infrastructure protocol that issues pufETH as a liquid restaking token representing users' deposits. Puffer Finance's Twitter Score is 126 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #6,107 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Puffer Finance was co-founded by Amir Forouzani and Jason Vranek, who also serves as CTO. The protocol received a Ethereum Foundation grant of $120,000 for Secure-Signer, an open-source tool designed to reduce Ethereum validator slashing risk. Puffer Finance raised $5.5 million in an earlier funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Lightspeed Faction, then raised $18 million in a Series A announced on April 16, 2024, led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital.
Puffer Finance operates two core infrastructure products beyond its liquid restaking token. Puffer UniFi AVS received an EigenCloud grant to support development of its preconfirmation network, while Puffer Preconf provides preconfirmation services for Layer 2 rollups backed by 3 million ETH of restaked security. Puffer Finance is also affiliated with Anchorage Digital. Additional backers include Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Consensys, GSR, Binance Labs, Jump Crypto, Avon Ventures, Mechanism, and Animoca.
Puffer Finance has accumulated 286,575 followers as of July 2026 on the platform since 2022 and has published 4,006 posts. Puffer Finance has been mentioned by 491 accounts across 1,337 total mentions.
Who follows Puffer Finance on X?
The accounts that follow Puffer Finance include 394 founders, 126 angel investors, 373 influencers and 31 VCs, among them Stani, Andrew Kang, David Hoffman, H.E. Justin Sun, sassal.ethacc and Mario Nawfal.