Drift Trade

Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.

DeFiLlama publishes the exact rules used to aggregate on-chain balances into the headline TVL figure shown on this page. The methodology below is the team's own source-of-truth description.

Calculate sum across all program token accounts

If a contract or vault isn't in this list, its balance does not contribute to the TVL displayed on Mantapex or DeFiLlama.

A further $1.8M sits in the protocol's native staking modules — these deposits are typically locked, vote-bonded, or earning a share of fees, and they reduce the freely circulating float that can hit the market.

Market cap and supply figures are sourced from DeFiLlama's price feed (which reconciles CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, and on-chain DEX prices). Treasury and staking values reflect on-chain balances controlled by the protocol at last sync.

Drift Trade is published as a versioned release inside the Drift protocol family. Releases inside the same family typically share governance, brand, and large parts of the audit history, but each version can run materially different contract logic — a release labelled v2 or v3 is not just a UI refresh. Newer versions inside a family typically launch with their own audit cycle and parameter set, so do not assume the previous release's safety record carries over without checking the linked audit reports.

Fork lineage and parent-protocol relationships are tracked by DeFiLlama for security and audit-history attribution; a fork inherits the upstream design but not necessarily the upstream audits or governance.

Drift Trade is a versioned release inside a larger protocol family. View the parent for combined TVL and all sibling versions.

Major events flagged by the DeFiLlama community — protocol launches, exploits, governance changes, and incentive programs.

1. Dec 3, 2021
   Listed on DeFiLlama

Drift Trade is a Derivatives protocol where traders open leveraged, perpetual, or option positions priced off oracle feeds and settled in collateral held by the contract. It is deployed on Solana. The codebase has been independently audited (1 report on file).

Drift Trade is a single-chain protocol, deployed exclusively on Solana — this concentrates execution risk but simplifies the trust model. Roughly 100% of its on-chain value sits on just three networks (Solana, Solana-staking, staking), so a fault on any one of them would affect a large slice of users. Price discovery relies on 2 oracle providers (Pyth, Switchboard), which diversifies the data-feed surface but also expands the set of third parties users implicitly trust. Only one audit report is currently listed; users should weigh that against the protocol's TVL before depositing significant amounts.

Verified external resources for Drift Trade — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.

Drift Trade is one of 7 Derivatives protocols Mantapex tracks in this category. Direct peers ranked by total value locked include Jupiter Perpetual Exchange, Hyperliquid HLP, GMX V2 Perps, and 3 more. These peer protocols collectively secure $2B in deposits, giving you a frame of reference for whether Drift Trade's own TVL is at the top, middle, or tail of the category.

Jupiter Perpetual Exchange

TVL $910.6M · 24h -0.27%

Hyperliquid HLP

TVL $431.7M · 24h +0.11%

GMX V2 Perps

TVL $267.5M · 24h -0.08%

Extended

TVL $196.4M · 24h +0.06%

dYdX V4

TVL $125.3M · 24h +0.58%

Ostium

TVL $92M · 24h -8.07%