Introducing Drift Institutional – A new chapter in Solana DeFi Today, we are launching Drift Institutional to work with large institutions, bringing their real-world assets on-chain. What, and why now? Institutions are here. The early years of blockchain innovation were spent building rails. The next few will be spent bringing real world assets on-chain and integrating them within DeFi rails. One market is ripe for tokenization: Private credit is a $2T+ market, compounding faster than equities and offering the highest risk-adjusted yields across any asset class. However, traditional credit facilities demand huge commitments, structuring and bring challenges: • Accessibility: Historically gated to only UHNWIs and family offices • Time to Liquidity: Long lock-ups and limited capital mobility • Capital Efficiency: Difficult to finance or rotate across fund positions To address this, we're launching Drift Institutional: our most ambitious product yet. Built for institutional capital, Drift Institutional is a white-glove gateway for credit funds, real estate, commodities, and more to access onchain liquidity with regulatory confidence and Solana-native speed. Our First Product: A Credit Facility for Tokenised ACRED As a part of this launch, Drift is launching a levered strategy for ACRED, the tokenized version of an Apollo-managed $1B multi-asset credit fund using Securitize’s sToken vault technology. Apollo is a $750B global asset manager focused on alternative assets, and ACRED is their flagship credit fund. This collaboration bridges TradFi and DeFi by increasing the utility of tokenized securities on-chain, offering potentially enhanced yields currently unavailable in TradFi formats This Institutional Pool is the first institutional product live on Solana DeFi. It enables a leveraged strategy using ACRED as collateral. Verified ACRED token holders will be able to borrow stablecoins onchain against their ACRED fund positions via Drift Borrow/Lend, access automated vault strategies via Drift Earn, and interact with liquidity directly on Solana without compromising on compliance, transparency, or capital efficiency. For the first time, tokenised private credit can be used as onchain collateral – unlocking financing and enabling trading on top of it. The next era of DeFi is capital-efficient, compliance-first, and institutionally native. Drift is Institutional DeFi. The age of Institutional DeFi is here!