Crypto in the Last 24 Hours April 17: Tether Backs Drift With $148M While Pepeto Passes $9M and SOL BNB Stall

Crypto in the last 24 hours brought a signal that reshapes the Solana recovery story. Drift Protocol secured $148 million in new funding from Tether and other partners on April 16 to relaunch as a USDT-based perpetuals DEX, following the $270 million exploit earlier this month, CoinDesk reported. When the largest stablecoin issuer writes a