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The Drift Foundation has outlined the compensation plan following the protocol hack: users will receive 1 DFX token for every 1 USDT lost, with redemption amounts depending on the recovery pool balance that currently covers only about 1% of total claims; Tether has committed to providing up to $127.5 million USDT to support protocol restart and user compensation, with funds matched against Velocity's net protocol revenue rather than disbursed as a lump sum; the claims deadline is January 1, 2028, allowing users to choose to hold DFX or trade it on secondary markets such as Raydium, with the only official link being dfx.drift.trade.
Odaily News — According to monitoring by Drift Foundation, DFX claims and redemption are now live. Users with verified losses from the April 1 incident can claim 1 DFX per 1 USDT lost. Each DFX corresponds to a claim on the Recovery Pool, which currently holds approximately 3.11 million USDT. The funding sources include a portion of Velocity's daily protocol net revenue, up to 127.5 million USDT in matching funds from Tether, up to 20 million USDT from strategic partners, and assets recovered subsequently.DFX can be redeemed for USDT at a redemption amount calculated as "Recovery Pool balance ÷ DFX outstanding supply." Redeemed DFX will be burned, and transactions are irreversible. The claims window will close on January 1, 2028, at 00:00 UTC, at which point unclaimed DFX will be burned.Yesterday, Drift Foundation released an update on fund recovery efforts related to the April 1 security incident, in which approximately $295 million in user assets were stolen. The Foundation has engaged Mandiant, zeroShadow, and SEAL 911 to conduct investigations and trace funds, with Mandiant identifying the attacker as North Korean threat group UNC6862.
Decentralized perpetual swap exchange Velocity (formerly Drift) announced that co-founder Cindy Leow has officially stepped down, with the rebuilt team continuing to operate the protocol going forward. Formerly known as Drift, a perpetual swap protocol on the Solana ecosystem, Velocity has recorded over $150 billion in cumulative trading volume since its launch in 2021. After undergoing restructuring in April and receiving support from Tether, the protocol was renamed Velocity in July and recently rolled out a test version encompassing five markets. Furthermore, the protocol has completed security audits and open-sourced its code.
Odaily News — According to Glassnode's latest "The Week On-chain - Escape Velocity" report, among the exchanges tracked by Glassnode, Gate has climbed 4 positions in BTC spot trading volume rankings over the past two years, marking the largest gain on the list and securing the third spot globally. During the same period, Gate's share of BTC spot trading volume within the tracked scope surged from 2.0% to 9.1%, a net increase of 7.1 percentage points — the largest growth among all exchanges.The report notes that Gate's rise is both sustained and long-lasting. Over the past 24 months, Gate has held a top-three position in BTC spot trading volume for 9 months, demonstrating continuously strengthening market competitiveness. As the exchange leading all platforms in both ranking improvement and market share growth, Gate's trading activity and market participation in the BTC spot market continue to expand.Glassnode also points out that the 24-hour spot trading volume across all exchanges has rebounded 121% from its August trough, with returning capital flowing to multiple trading platforms. Against the backdrop of an overall recovery in market activity, Gate's simultaneous gains in market share and global ranking stand out notably, fully demonstrating its growing momentum and expanding industry influence in the BTC spot market.
According to official announcements, the decentralized derivatives trading platform Drift has announced a brand upgrade and been renamed Velocity. The official statement indicates that the new name reflects the platform's emphasis on execution speed and directional precision in the perpetual contract trading sector, and also marks the platform's entry into a new phase in terms of architecture optimization, security foundation enhancement, and product positioning clarification.