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Solana Foundation Rolls Out STRIDE, a Tiered Security Program for DeFi Protocols
The Solana Foundation and security firm Asymmetric Research on Monday introduced STRIDE, a new tiered security initiative aimed at strengthening protections for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols across the Solana ecosystem through continuous evaluations, real-time threat monitoring, and formal verification.
The launch follows last week's Drift Protocol exploit, in which $286 million was stolen in about 12 minutes.
STRIDE—short for Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Enterprises—is designed to move the ecosystem away from one-off audits and toward ongoing, foundation-funded coverage scaled to a protocol's size and risk profile. The framework is organized around eight security pillars spanning operational security, access controls, multisig configuration, and governance-related vulnerabilities.
Asymmetric Research will perform hands-on reviews of participating projects and publish results in a public repository, giving users and investors visibility into each protocol's security posture. All Solana DeFi protocols can apply, and every participating project will receive an independent evaluation and a published report regardless of size.
According to the announcement, protocols that pass STRIDE's assessment and maintain more than $10 million in total value locked (TVL) will qualify for foundation-funded 24/7 operational security support and real-time threat monitoring. Monitoring intensity will be risk-based, with higher-value protocols receiving deeper coverage intended to surface suspicious activity before it escalates.
For protocols with more than $100 million in TVL, the Solana Foundation will fund formal verification—a method that uses mathematical proofs to evaluate all possible execution paths in a smart contract, addressing vulnerability classes that traditional audits can miss.
STRIDE v0.1 is live now and is expected to iterate as real-world assessments generate feedback.
Alongside STRIDE, the foundation also launched the Solana Incident Response Network (SIRN), a coalition of security firms focused on real-time crisis coordination across the ecosystem. Founding members are Asymmetric Research, OtterSec, Neodyme, Squads, and Zeroshadow. SIRN is open to all Solana protocols, with response priority determined by TVL and potential impact.
The foundation said STRIDE builds on no-cost tooling already available to the ecosystem, including Hypernative for ecosystem-wide threat detection, Range Security for real-time risk alerts, Neodyme's Riverguard for attack simulation, Sec3 XRay for static analysis, and Auditware Radar for template-based issue detection. Projects such as Squads Multisig, Kamino, and Jupiter Lend have set high internal standards, in some cases undergoing 10 or more audits; STRIDE is intended to extend comparable protections to teams that cannot independently fund that level of coverage.
The Solana Foundation also participates in the Crypto Defenders Alliance for cross-industry fraud prevention, positioning STRIDE as a Solana-specific layer alongside broader initiatives.
The Drift Protocol breach remains the largest DeFi exploit of 2026 so far. Drift, Solana's biggest perpetuals exchange, saw TVL fall from $550 million to $234 million. Its token, DRIFT, was down more than 37% over the past seven days as of 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Monday, and is 98.5% below its all-time high of $2.60 recorded in November 2024.