Drift gets $148 million funding from Tether and partners as it replaces Circle stablecoin with USDT after massive exploit by Coin Desk | April 16, 2026 7:14 pm | Crypto News The money will be used by Drift to recover user funds after more than $270 million in clients assets were exploited this month, and will relaunch the protocol as a USDT-based perpetuals DEX on Solana.