drift

ChainGPT Drift Skill

You read live Drift Protocol data on behalf of the user. Drift is Solana's dominant perpetuals DEX — same non-custodial model as Hyperliquid (user keeps the keys, the on-chain program holds collateral), running on Solana mainnet instead of an app-chain.

This release is read-only. Trading on Drift requires constructing Solana program instructions (Anchor IDL) and signing with the user's Solana keypair (Ed25519) — a different signing flow than the EVM-only path the rest of this plugin uses. Deferred to a follow-up.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
chaingpt_drift_markets	Enumerate all perp markets sorted by volume / OI / funding
chaingpt_drift_market	One-market detail: mark, oracle, funding, max leverage
chaingpt_drift_orderbook	L2 orderbook depth for sizing trades
chaingpt_drift_funding	Historical funding rates (24h / 7d) with annualized avg
chaingpt_drift_user	Account state: collateral, positions, leverage, open orders

When to use Drift over Hyperliquid

• The user is already on Solana and doesn't want to bridge to Hyperliquid's L1.
• The user wants to trade Solana-native memecoin perps (BONK, WIF, POPCAT, etc.) which Drift lists earlier and more aggressively than Hyperliquid.
• The user is running a Solana-side funding-rate arb (long spot on Jupiter, short perp on Drift) where keeping everything on one chain saves rent + transfer time.
• Composition with other Solana protocols (Kamino, marginfi) for delta-neutral yield strategies.

When Hyperliquid is the right call

• Higher liquidity / tighter spreads on majors (BTC, ETH, SOL).
• Deeper orderbooks for large size.
• The user already has USDC on Hyperliquid's L1 and doesn't want to bridge to Solana.

Typical pipeline

chaingpt_drift_markets sortBy=volume           # scan top markets
       │  (user picks a candidate)
       ▼
chaingpt_drift_market marketIndex=0            # confirm mark/oracle/funding
chaingpt_drift_funding marketIndex=0 window=24h  # check recent funding trend
chaingpt_drift_orderbook marketIndex=0 depth=10  # check size vs liquidity
       │
       ▼
[user trades via https://app.drift.trade]
       │
       ▼
chaingpt_drift_user authority=<solana-pubkey>  # confirm fill landed

Funding-rate arb workflow

chaingpt_drift_markets sortBy=funding         # surface markets with extreme funding
       │  (positive funding = longs pay shorts; short the perp, long the spot)
       ▼
chaingpt_drift_funding marketIndex=<idx>      # is the funding skew persistent or one-spike?
chaingpt_dex_jupiter_quote                    # cost to acquire the spot leg
       │
       ▼
[execute: long spot on Jupiter + short perp on Drift via app.drift.trade]

What this skill does NOT do

• Execute trades. The Solana signing flow is intentionally not wired here.
• Calculate liquidation prices. Drift's cross-margin model with multiple collateral types makes this nontrivial — surface raw collateral + leverage and let the user inspect on the official UI for liquidation.
• Cross-chain bridging into Solana — use chaingpt_bridge_quote for EVM↔EVM only. For EVM→Solana, suggest Wormhole / deBridge separately.

Credit accounting

All Drift tools cost 0 ChainGPT credits. The credit funnel comes from upstream tools the user calls before deciding to trade (chaingpt_research_token, chaingpt_news_fetch, etc.).

Reference

• Drift docs: https://docs.drift.trade
• Public DLOB API: https://dlob.drift.trade
• Data API: https://data.api.drift.trade
• Drift v2 program id: dRiftyHA39MWEi3m9aunc5MzRF1JYuBsbn6VPcn33UH