Draft:Morpho

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  • Comment: Forbes 30 under 30 and Funding round announcements aren't usually enough to show notability. Many of the other sources are either Morpho's own website or written by morpho people so I think the sourcing is not strong enough for an article. Moritoriko (talk) 02:39, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
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Morpho
Morpho is a decentralized finance lending protocol developed and maintained by the Morpho Association.
DeveloperMorpho Association
Initial release2022; 4 years ago (2022)
Written inSolidity
TypeDecentralized finance lending protocol
LicenseOpen source
Websitemorpho.org
Repositorygithub.com/morpho-org

Morpho is a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol on the Ethereum blockchain and other EVM-compatible chains. It is developed by the Morpho Association.[1] By early 2026, the protocol held over $10 billion in deposits.[2]

The protocol first launched in 2022 as Morpho Optimizers, built on top of Aave and Compound Finance. In 2024, Morpho released Variable-rate Markets, where users create isolated lending markets and third-party curators manage vaults. A fixed-rate addition was announced in 2025.[3]

Several cryptocurrency exchanges use Morpho for their lending products, including Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini.[4][5]

In February 2026, Apollo Global Management agreed to buy up to 90 million MORPHO governance tokens over four years.[6]

History

Origins

Paul Frambot co-founded Morpho in 2021 with Merlin Egalité, Mathis Gontier Delaunay, and Julien Thomas. Frambot started the project while finishing a master's degree at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Nascent and Semantic Capital provided $2 million in seed funding.[7]

In July 2022, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Variant led an $18 million round.[8][9]

In August 2024, Ribbit Capital led a $50 million round. Other participants included Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Brevan Howard, and Kraken Ventures.[10]

Technology

Morpho Optimizers

Morpho Optimizers launched in 2022 on top of Aave and Compound Finance. The system matched lenders with borrowers directly; when no match was found, funds fell back to the underlying pool.[11] The protocol reached $1 billion in deposits within 18 months.[11]

Variable-rate Markets

In 2024, Morpho launched Variable-rate Markets. Anyone can create isolated lending markets by specifying a collateral asset, a loan asset, an oracle, and risk parameters. Third-party curators can deploy Morpho Vaults on top of these markets. Curators select which markets to allocate into and set exposure limits.[12]

By 2025, more than 30 curators were operating on Morpho.[13] Compound Finance adopted Morpho's infrastructure for its deployment on Polygon.[14]

In January 2025, Coinbase launched bitcoin-backed loans on Morpho on Base.[4] Coinbase later added USDC lending through a Morpho Vault curated by Steakhouse Financial.[15]

Gemini integrated Morpho into its self-custodial wallet,[16] Kraken used it in its DeFi Earn product,[5] OKX used it for OKX Earn USDT,[17] and Bitget launched yield products on Arbitrum through Morpho.[18]

Société Générale's digital-asset arm SG-Forge used Morpho for EUR CoinVertible stablecoin lending.[19]

Fixed-rate Markets

In June 2025, Morpho announced Fixed-rate Markets, which let borrowers lock in a rate and term upfront.[3]

Institutional use

In January 2026, Bitwise Asset Management began curating vaults on Morpho.[20]

The Swiss custodian Taurus added Morpho Vaults to its custody platform Taurus-PROTECT.[21][22]

In February 2026, Anchorage Digital added Morpho Vaults to its custody platform.[6] That same month, Apollo Global Management agreed to buy up to 90 million MORPHO governance tokens over four years.[6]

Security

Audits

Morpho's core contracts have been audited more than 25 times by firms including Trail of Bits, Spearbit, and OpenZeppelin.[23] The protocol runs a $2.5 million bug bounty.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Crypto lender Morpho bucks DeFi trend as nonprofit absorbs development team". DL News.
  2. ^ "With Morpho V2, the Top Crypto Lender Seeks to Make DeFi More Like TradFi". The Defiant. June 13, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Crypto Lending Platform Morpho V2 Brings DeFi Closer to Traditional Finance". Yahoo Finance. June 12, 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Coinbase to Offer Bitcoin-Backed Loans Through Morpho". CoinDesk. January 16, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Kraken rolls out DeFi Earn in US, EU and Canada". The Block.
  6. ^ a b c "Wall Street Giant Apollo Deepens Crypto Push with Morpho Token Deal". CoinDesk. February 15, 2026.
  7. ^ "Paul Frambot, CEO of Morpho Labs, on DeFi 2.0". CryptoRank.
  8. ^ "A16z, Variant Lead $18M Round for Lending Protocol Morpho Labs". CoinDesk. July 12, 2022.
  9. ^ "Avec Morpho, ces étudiants français ont séduit Andreessen Horowitz". Le Figaro. July 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital". Yahoo Finance. August 1, 2024.
  11. ^ a b "DeFi's Path to Mass Adoption Goes Through Fintech Firms, Centralized Exchanges, Morpho Labs Chief Says". CoinDesk. April 18, 2024.
  12. ^ "Morpho: Evolving into Permissionless Lending Infrastructure". Blockworks Research.
  13. ^ "DeFi Curators in 2025: Navigating Chaos, Building Resilience". Chorus One. 2025.
  14. ^ "Compound Launches New Vaults Rival Morpho". The Block. March 13, 2025.
  15. ^ "Earn Competitive Yields by Lending Your USDC". Coinbase.
  16. ^ "Gemini Launches Self-Custodial Smart Wallet". CoinDesk. August 14, 2025.
  17. ^ "Katana Reward Campaign for Katana Onchain Earn". OKX.
  18. ^ "Bitget Launches Upgraded On-Chain Earn with Morpho". Bitget.
  19. ^ "From Pools to Vaults: The $21B RWA Wave Reshaping Onchain Lending". FXStreet. January 2026.
  20. ^ "Bitwise Expands Onchain Solutions with Introduction of Non-Custodial Vault Curation on Morpho". Fintech Finance News. January 2026.
  21. ^ "Taurus Integrates Morpho Enabling Institutional Access to Onchain Lending". Fintech Finance News.
  22. ^ "Morpho integrates into Taurus-PROTECT". Asset Servicing Times. February 17, 2026.
  23. ^ a b "Risks". Morpho Documentation.

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