The Solana Foundation on Monday introduced a new security auditing framework for protocols built on its network, alongside an incident-response network, warning that “adversaries are rapidly innovating.”
In collaboration with Web3 security firm Asymmetric Research, the Switzerland-based organization unveiled the Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Enterprises (STRIDE). The program is designed as a structured system for assessing, monitoring, and escalating security measures across Solana projects.
STRIDE evaluates protocols based on eight key areas: program security, governance and access control, oracle and dependency risks, infrastructure protection, supply chain integrity, operational security, monitoring and incident response, as well as logging and forensic capabilities.
According to Asymmetric Research, each protocol undergoes an independent assessment against these standards, with results made publicly available. This transparency aims to give users, investors, and the wider ecosystem clearer insight into the security strength of the platforms they engage with.
The announcement follows a major DeFi exploit reported just a week earlier, in which Drift Protocol suffered losses of around $280 million after a social engineering attack linked to North Korean threat actors.
The Solana Foundation also introduced the Solana Incident Response Network (SIRN), a coalition of security firms designed to provide real-time incident response across the Solana ecosystem.
According to the foundation, members of the network will share threat intelligence, coordinate responses to ongoing attacks, and help refine and evolve the STRIDE security framework over time.
While the announcement did not explicitly reference artificial intelligence, it comes amid growing concerns about AI-driven threats targeting crypto protocols.
In January, the Solana-based DeFi platform Step Finance lost around $40 million, with AI agents reportedly intensifying the impact by autonomously executing large-scale transfers, according to a recent report from KuCoin.
More broadly, attackers targeted 34 DeFi protocols in the first quarter of 2026, stealing over $168 million in cryptocurrency, based on data from DefiLlama.
Despite the scale of these incidents, total losses have dropped sharply compared to the same period in 2025, when approximately $1.58 billion was stolen in Q1. The largest exploit this year stemmed from a private key compromise involving Step Finance.
