U.S. Treasury Opens Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Sharing to Crypto Industry

Crypto assets are gradually becoming part of the U.S. financial system, but trading platforms continue to face attacks by state-backed hackers and social-engineering schemes. DeFi suffered nearly $169 million in losses from hacks in the first quarter of 2026. The initiative implements a recommendation from the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets’ July 2025 report, treating the industry as part of the financial sector’s critical infrastructure.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) announced on April 9, 2026, that eligible U.S. digital-asset companies and industry organizations could receive, free of charge, the same real-time, actionable threat intelligence previously available to traditional financial institutions. Drift Protocol had earlier suffered about $280 million in losses from a hack.