🚨 #Hackeo in #Puffer Finance shakes confidence in DeFi.

On August 19, 2025, #PufferFinance —a key project in the restaking ecosystem on Ethereum— suffered an attack on its digital infrastructure. The exploit compromised its official website and accounts on X (formerly Twitter), which forced the team to temporarily pause the protocol and issue an urgent statement from their verified channel on Discord.

Although user funds were not directly affected, the impact was immediate:

- 🔻 The TVL (Total Value Locked) of Puffer dropped by 12% in less than 24 hours.

- 🔻 Tokens linked to restaking such as ETH, rsETH, SWELL, and RETH showed declines between 2% and 5%.

- 🔻 The DeFi Pulse index fell by 1.41%, reflecting systemic fear.

Institutions like CertiK, PeckShield, and SlowMist began investigating the incident, while analysts from Messari and Delphi Digital warned about the fragility of emerging protocols without continuous audits.

This event adds to a series of recent vulnerabilities:

- The exploit of Arcadia Finance in July 2025.

- The phishing attack on Balancer Protocol in June.

- And the still unresolved case of Zunami Protocol, which left losses of over $2.5M in May.

📉 Every hack is a wake-up call: in crypto, trust is built with transparency, not with promises.