What's Driving Token Prices? July 8, 2026

GROVE (-15%) - This week, Grove, the latest spinoff from the Sky ecosystem (fka MakerDAO), launched its GROVE token. Grove is a DeFi protocol focused on investing on-chain assets into off-chain credit-regulated opportunities. The assets that Grove manages come from Sky’s ecosystem. Grove joins Spark, Keel, and Obex as “stars” in the Sky ecosystem. The GROVE token serves as a governance and utility token; it was given to early ecosystem contributors and will be part of Sky’s ongoing rewards program for its stablecoin, USDS. As of today, only about 5% of the total supply is circulating. The token is down approximately -15% at launch with a $278M fully diluted valuation.
DRIFT (-13%) - This past week, Solana-based derivatives protocol Drift announced a branding change to Velocity. The branding change follows a $285M hack of the protocol in April by North Korean actors; it was a sophisticated social engineering attack that required months to set up. The protocol paused operations while the team developed a recovery plan. As the protocol prepares to relaunch, it announced a shift to a new brand and name: Velocity DEX. The project also opened up the claims process yesterday for eligible wallets to claim; however, the recovery fund has nowhere near enough assets to compensate victims. Based on Drift’s historical revenue of $19M-$35M per year, it may take up to 8 years for victims to recoup their funds. The DRIFT token is down -13% for the week and down -78% since the hack.
BONK (-7%) - Solana-based memecoin project BonkDAO suffered a governance attack this past week that saw $20M in BONK tokens leave its treasury. The attack was simple: the attacker purchased about $4.4M in BONK tokens on the open market to meet the minimum governance quorum threshold of 1%. The attacker then published a governance post on the forum requesting that $20M in treasury tokens be sent to the attacker’s address. The proposal sat on the forum for 7 days without being noticed and was voted on by 7 wallets, including the attacker’s. Although the attacker technically followed all the proper governance channels, the Bonk team is calling it a “hack” and is attempting to recover funds with law enforcement's help.

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