Drift Protocol has urged its users to halt all deposits due to unusual activity, explicitly stressing that this is not an April Fools’ joke
This comes after on-chain analytics accounts like Lookonchain reported a massive exploit, with over $270 million in assets being suspiciously drained and transferred to a single wallet.
“Drift Protocol is experiencing an active attack. Deposits and withdrawals have been suspended. We are coordinating with multiple security firms, bridges, and exchanges to contain the incident. This is not an April Fool’s joke. We’ll provide additional updates from this account as more information is available to share,” the protocol said
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Drift Protocol is a prominent decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Solana blockchain, which is designed to be a comprehensive decentralized finance (DeFi) hub.
The trading platform offers decentralized perpetual futures trading. It also offers spot trading, borrowing, lending, and other services
The second-biggest Solana exploit in history
The Drift Protocol exploit will cement itself as one of the most devastating hacks in the history of decentralized finance.
Based on the provided top 20 list, here is how the numbers break down:
At $270 million, the Drift exploit slots in between the eighth spot (DMM Bitcoin at $304 million) and the ninth spot (WazirX at $235 million). This makes it the ninth-largest crypto hack of all time across all blockchains.
When it comes to Solana-related exploits, Drift becomes the 2nd largest Solana exploit in history. The only Solana-affiliated hack larger than Drift on this list is the Wormhole bridge exploit (#7 at $326 million in 2022).
However, there is a key distinction between Wormhole and Drift. Wormhole was a cross-chain bridge (connecting Solana to Ethereum and other chains). Drift Protocol is a native decentralized application. Therefore, this $270 million drain would effectively be the largest ever exploit of a native Solana DeFi protocol.
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