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. The inc...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Solana is showing up inside the Security Incidents theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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