The Solana Foundation launched a structured ecosystem security initiative on Monday, partnering with blockchain security firm Ametric Research to deliver STRIDE – Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Institutions – a tiered assessment and monitoring program open to all Solana-based protocols, along with the alliance’s Incident Response Network that formalizes coordinated threat containment across the ecosystem.
The advertisement published in A Share the organization’s blogcomes less than two weeks after a $270 million exploit against Drift Protocol exposed the depth of administrative and operational security gaps that traditional smart contract audits do not address.
That the organization is now broadly funding ongoing security operations – rather than issuing post-incident guidance – signals a material shift in how the ecosystem’s primary institutional backer calibrates its security posture ahead of expected institutional capital inflows.
Solana was built for security. As the ecosystem expands, so does our investment in tools, standards, and support.
Today that commitment deepens with a new security program, active monitoring, formal verification of best-in-class protocols, and a new crisis response network.
He learns… pic.twitter.com/17M4TgqpsQ
– Solana Foundation (@SolanaFndn) April 6, 2026
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Solana STRIDE and SIRN: Program mechanics, eligibility levels, and asymmetric research framework
The mechanism works as follows. Ametric Research will independently evaluate applicants’ protocols against a multi-pillar security framework covering operational security, access controls, multisig configurations, governance vulnerabilities, smart contract integrity, key management practices, and economic design – a scope that extends materially beyond the static code review provided by traditional audit reports.
The evaluation results will be made publicly available to users and investors, creating a common, comparable standard for protocol safety rather than the siled reports commissioned by sponsors that currently dominate the field. STRIDE v0.1 is live and open for all Solana DeFi protocols to be implemented immediately, with results published in a public repository.
The software applies differentiated support based on the total value locked. Protocols that pass the evaluation with more than $10 million TVL will receive enterprise-funded 24/7 active threat monitoring and ongoing operational security support calibrated to risk exposure.
We’re tripling the security of Solana DeFi:
– New security software with @asymmetric_re
– Operational reviews and general reports
– An active threat monitoring center that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
– A dedicated network for immediate response to crises
– Official verification of the most important protocols https://t.co/XrVaxw7tH6– Fibo (@Fibo) April 6, 2026
Those with a value exceeding $100 million will be given access to formal validators – mathematical proof-based methods that verify all possible smart contract execution paths, not just the paths expected by a manual reviewer. This tiered structure does something intentional: it focuses the most expensive security resources on protocols whose failure would cause the most severe systemic damage, while still providing a trustworthy baseline assessment for smaller entrants.
Along with STRIDE, the organization launched the Solana Incident Response Network (SIRN), a membership-based alliance of security companies dedicated to real-time analysis, containment, and remediation during live exploits.
Founding participants include Ametric Research, OtterSec, Neodyme, Squads, and Zeroshadow. SIRN is open to all Solana-based protocols, though the organization’s blog post states that access will be prioritized by TVL and Impact — a triage model that reflects how incident response resources can be deployed more efficiently under time pressure.
The organization noted that STRIDE and SIRN rely on existing, free ecosystem tools, including Range Security for risk alerts, Sec3 X-Ray for static analysis, and Auditware Radar for vulnerability detection.
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