On April 6, 2026 the Solana Foundation and Asymmetric Research introduced STRIDE (Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Enterprises), a tiered, continuous security program for Solana DeFi projects that replaces one-off audits with ongoing evaluations across eight security pillars, threat monitoring, published independent reports, and formal verification. Protocols with >$10M TVL qualify for foundation-funded 24/7 operational monitoring and those with >$100M TVL qualify for foundation-funded formal verification. The foundation also launched the Solana Incident Response Network (SIRN) with Asymmetric Research, OtterSec, Neodyme, Squads, and Zeroshadow as founding members to coordinate real-time crisis response; the effort follows the $286M Drift Protocol hack and aims to extend enterprise-level protections to smaller teams.

The story describes a positive, security-focused initiative (STRIDE) that provides ongoing evaluation, monitoring, and formal verification for protocols and establishes SIRN for real-time response. It cites concrete program thresholds (> $10M TVL for 24/7 monitoring; > $100M TVL for formal verification), founding members, and links the move to the $286M Drift hack — facts that reduce future protocol risk but are structural rather than immediate market-moving events.