Drift gets $148 million funding from Tether and partners as it replaces Circle stablecoin with USDT after massive exploit
Affected assets and topics
STABLECOIN
ETH
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FinBERT analysis of financial text showing neutral sentiment with 94.1% confidence.
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CoinDesk
Claim
Drift gets $148 million funding from Tether and partners as it replaces Circle stablecoin with USDT after massive exploit
AI inference
Neutral · 94%
Generated
2026-04-16 13:00
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Technical identifiers
- Provider tag
- huggingface-ProsusAI/finbert
- Analysis version
- huggingface-ProsusAI/finbert
- Article id
- 71902
Original source
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.
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Original article published by CoinDesk on April 16, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.