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Morpho is a decentralized, non-custodial crypto lending protocol on Ethereum and EVM chains, offering isolated markets and vaults.
Spark Liquidity Layer has more than $3 billion deployed across SparkLend, Morpho, Uniswap and Anchorage loans, according to Crypto Briefing. The report calls it the largest on-chain allocator DefiLlama tracks, though the second-quarter average ran higher.
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LlamaRisk's October 12 snapshot places 51.2% of Ethena's USDe backing in DeFi and institutional lending. The allocation figure does not measure actual borrower drawdowns, so a holder's exit near $1 turns on pool liquidity and whitelisted redemption rights.
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Scanning 146 Morpho vaults on-chain, a dev.to author found timelocks on all 122 listed ones and none on 5 unlisted vaults holding about $305M. The method is five RPC calls on any proxy, and in the Morpho data the timelock decides whether depositors get a warning window.
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SALT Lending says more borrowers are pledging bitcoin to pay tuition and fund business working capital. CryptoBriefing put its fixed rates at 7.49% to 10.50%, the cost of keeping coins a borrower would otherwise sell.
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GSR is committing $100 million, mostly through a credit facility, to Hare, a new onchain vault business built with Turtle. Its money goes in first as anchor liquidity, so Hare becomes a product line only if outside allocators follow.
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Ledger now offers USDC and USDT loans against cbBTC or wBTC through Morpho to a wallet base it says secures almost 30% of retail bitcoin. Borrowers keep their keys but pay a rate set by pool demand and carry the liquidation risk themselves.
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Two Safe multisigs lost up to $310K after an attacker impersonated a Safe to get past FlashLoopAdapter, an Aave leverage add-on the owners had enabled. Aave and Safe's core code held, so the loss fell on owners who let a module move funds without signatures.
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MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators out of Lido after an infrastructure compromise, putting the stake on a round trip Lido says can take up to 45 days. The stake earns no rewards on the way, and stETH holders share that cost, for an attack whose only documented theft so far is diverted block rewards.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Dune's Q3 report puts tokenized credit at 76%, about $1.61 billion, of the real-world collateral in DeFi lending. Holders borrow against credit for its yield, and part of that yield comes from loans to crypto firms.
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Circle released three kits on September 30 that let Arc apps sell USDC, offer Morpho yield and lend against Bitcoin without writing smart contracts. Apps that adopt them skip the contract work and take on a dependence on Circle, Morpho and outside KYC firms.
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Aave's new vault on Base has lent about $495,000 in USDC against $8.14 million of Coinbase's tokenized Magnificent 7 shares. With so little borrowed, the weekend pricing gap in its liquidation design has yet to meet a falling market.
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Morpho says a third-party AI marketing tool with access to its X account posted that its curators run on private, off-chain distribution deals. Depositors now have reason to ask which vendors can publish in a protocol's name.
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Curators managing vaults on Morpho, a lending protocol with more than $3 billion in deposits, rely on offchain fees and subsidies, Crypto Briefing reports. A 10% cut of a 5% yield leaves the curator of a $100 million vault about $500,000 a year to run a risk team.
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World Money went live in more than 150 countries on Thursday, holding balances in eight currencies, funded through Stripe and paying yield through Morpho, where World warns depositors could lose some or all of their money.
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Arc's mainnet opened with $410.8 million of DEX volume, and $336.3 million of it came off nineteen memecoin launchpads, leaving $74.6 million to test what Circle actually built the chain to settle.
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Coinbase reports $228 million of cumulative volume across ten equity tokens on Base, with one early day close to half that total. Alpaca holds the underlying shares under Abu Dhabi oversight, and Regulation S keeps US persons out.
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Artemis put outstanding loans on Coinbase's Layer 2 at a record $2.75bn on September 10, and roughly $1.92bn of that sits in Morpho vaults reachable through Coinbase's own borrowing screen at advertised rates from 5%.
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Custom Pairs makes a tokenized equity the settlement side of a meme trade, which is real distribution attached to a very small destination, since one day of that volume ran about 34 times the deposits in Morpho's SPYx vault.
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Weekly meme coin volume on Robinhood's layer-2 rose to $3.5bn in late August, and the Solana base that figure is measured against sat near $42bn in both weeks, so the gain is share taken, not a market growing.
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