Users can now Lend directly into variable rate markets
If you prefer managing your own Risk and Liquidity then this is for u
And if instead, you prefer externalizing this to the industry's top Risk Curators, then Vaults are the perfect fit
Predictability, now in your hands.
After months of building, the @Morpho Markets app is now live for everyone
You can now Lend & Borrow directly at fixed rates and fixed terms that you choose
With Midnight 🕛, Defi takes a giant bite at global finance 🦋
Demo of the Markets App below, try it out today on: markets.morpho.org
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Market-defined rates are the future. Any serious institution wants to control the rate at which it lends and borrows, not inherit it from a governance vote or a utilization curve.
Kind of wild that we went this long the other way.
Morpho Midnight's orderbook is going to be one of the venues that matters most for reading DeFi rates. It gives crypto credit something it's never had: a term structure. Fixed rates at fixed maturities, set by an orderbook instead of a utilization curve.
TradFi has always priced credit this way. An overnight rate anchors the front (repo, the policy rate), and a curve of term rates prices duration out along bills, notes, and bonds. DeFi has lived entirely at the overnight point, floating rates that reprice every block. Midnight adds the rest of the curve.
Liquidity is still thin, but the appetite is already visible on both sides. Borrowers and lenders are quoting real size, and the lend curve slopes up with duration: longer maturities clear at higher rates, the same contango shape a healthy bond market prints when lenders want a premium for locking up.
The cbBTC book on Base is clearing fixed borrow rates around 3-6% depending on tenor today. I expect discovery across maturities to get far more efficient as market makers move in, and the front of the curve to converge with Morpho Blue, which is the perpetual floating DeFi rate right now. Currently, BTC loans are at 3%-5% yield on Ethereum and Base on Blue.
It's early. This is a three-point curve on one collateral, and the far tenors are barely quoted. But the direction is clear: crypto is getting a market-priced yield curve.
Securing Morpho Midnight
This framework covers the security principles behind Morpho Midnight: how it was designed, built, formally verified, and audited.
morpho.org/blog/securing-mor…
A big thank you to @TheBigWhale_ team for putting together a great Breakfast!
At @MorphoLabs, we've never felt more bullish on the future of Defi
Bringing the world's financial infrastructure onchain is more inevitable by the day 🦋
Everyone will Just Use Morpho
Encore une fois, vous avez répondu présent pour @TheBigWhale_, et la salle comble témoigne de l’intérêt grandissant pour le dialogue entre finance décentralisée (DeFi) et finance traditionnelle (TradFi).
Nous avons eu la chance de réunir des figures majeures des deux mondes : @100_dro_ (@MorphoLabs), @pahyppolite (@Spiko_finance), Clovis Bonnin (@Kiln_finance), et Paul Bureau (Banque Delubac & Cie).
Une table-ronde exceptionnelle pour aborder les synergies, les besoins et les opportunités entre ces deux univers.
Les discussions ont été d’une richesse rare, mais un moment m’a particulièrement marqué : l’échange en tête-à-tête avec Marie-Aline Vives de la @banquedefrance.
Ses réflexions sur les expérimentations menées sur des infrastructures publiques et des mécanismes comme les AMM (Automated Market Makers) ont brillamment illustré comment les innovations de la DeFi peuvent inspirer les acteurs traditionnels.
Ces conversations confirment une chose : le rapprochement entre DeFi et TradFi n’est plus une idée, mais une réalité en pleine construction.
Merci à tous ceux qui ont participé à rendre cette matinée si passionnante !









