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Tether Steps In With $150M Support Plan After Drift Protocol Loses $285M in Exploit

Tether announced a recovery plan of up to $150 million to help Drift Protocol users recoup losses from an April 1 exploit that drained approximately $285 million from the Solana-based…

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Aave Labs Secures $25M Stablecoin Grant as DAO Formalizes Revenue Control Model

Aave DAO voted to hand Aave Labs $31.8 million in combined stablecoin and token funding on April 12, 2026, the first enforceable action taken under founder Stani Kulechov’s “Aave Will…

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New SEC Guidance Targets DeFi Interfaces, Self-Custodial Wallets, and Execution Routing Disclosures

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets released a staff statement on Monday, outlining conditions under which operators of crypto trading interfaces can avoid registering as…

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Solana Foundation Launches STRIDE Security Program for DeFi Protocols Following Drift Incident

The Solana Foundation and Asymmetric Research launched STRIDE on Monday, a tiered security program built to protect decentralized finance ( DeFi) protocols across the Solana ecosystem with ongoing evaluations, threat…

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Drift Protocol Hack 2026: What Happened, Who Lost Money, and What’s Next

A Solana-based perpetual futures exchange lost $286 million in 12 minutes on April 1, 2026, after attackers spent three weeks quietly manufacturing fake collateral and socially engineering the protocol’s signers.…

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Tokenized Uranium Lending Launches via Metals.io and Morpho Protocol

Tokenized uranium holders can now use xU3O8 as collateral to borrow stablecoins through a new integration with the Morpho lending protocol. Metals.io announced that borrowing against xU3O8, the world’s first…

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