{"id":423354,"date":"2026-04-03T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-markets-tumble-as-iran-strikes-resume-drift-exploit-rattles-solana-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:24:47","slug":"crypto-markets-tumble-as-iran-strikes-resume-drift-exploit-rattles-solana-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-markets-tumble-as-iran-strikes-resume-drift-exploit-rattles-solana-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Markets Tumble as Iran Strikes Resume, Drift Exploit Rattles Solana &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin fell below $67,000, and Ether dropped over 4% as oil surged on renewed geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Crypto markets slumped on Thursday as a fresh wave of risk-off sentiment swept across global markets following President Donald Trump&#8217;s pledge to continue military strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $66,900, down 1.7% over the past 24 hours. ETH slipped 4% to $2,050, and SOL plunged 6% to $79 in the wake of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/drift-protocol-vault-loses-usd270-million-in-potential-exploit\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Drift exploit<\/a>. Meanwhile, Ripple (XRP) dropped 3.3%. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">BTC Chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Total crypto market capitalization decreased by 1.7% to $2.38 trillion, according to Coingecko.<\/p>\n<p>The rout was triggered after Trump said Wednesday evening that the U.S. would continue strikes on Iran, reversing hopes for a diplomatic resolution that had buoyed markets earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The risk-off mood extended to institutional products. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $173.7 million on April 1, while spot Ethereum ETFs posted a $7.1 million withdrawal, according to SoSoValue.<\/p>\n<h2>Big Movers<\/h2>\n<p>Almost all of the Top 100 digital assets posted losses over the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Algorand (ALGO) and MemeCore (M) outperformed, rallying 5%. Lighter (LIT) surged 10% after unveiling a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/wallet-in-telegram-rolls-out-perpetual-futures-trading-via-lighter\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">collaboration with Wallet in Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uniswap (UNI) and Solana (SOL) are today\u2019s biggest losers, down 13% and 6%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Around 185,000 leveraged traders were liquidated for $441 million in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. Bitcoin accounted for $103 million, while ETH made up $93 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin fell below $67,000, and Ether dropped over 4% as oil surged on renewed geopolitical tensions. Crypto markets slumped on Thursday as a fresh wave of risk-off sentiment swept across global markets following President Donald Trump&#8217;s pledge to continue military strikes against Iran. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $66,900, down 1.7% over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-423354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423357,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423354\/revisions\/423357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}