Experiencing one of the best feelings: spending a year+ quietly building something no one expects from us, and finally getting ready to announce it this month.

with the release of fixed-rate lending via @Morpho Midnight, i wanted to share an SDK that i have been working on as a personal project! introducing Nocturne - an open-source Rust SDK for building on Morpho Midnight build, sign, publish, take, simulate, and verify Midnight offers, with support for quotes, Merkle proofs, calldata generation, onchain decoding, and more. It's fully open source, and I'd love feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or PRs from anyone building in the ecosystem! Note: this is not an official Morpho release and is an independent project. This is an unaudited, v0.1 release. GitHub: github.com/Oliverpt-1/Noctur… Rust SDK: crates.io/crates/nocturne-mi… Verification CLI: crates.io/crates/nocturne-ve…

The missing piece for onchain finance is here Fixed rate, fixed term credit markets Morpho Midnight is live

Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world. Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov. The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10+ other strategic partners. The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.

The crypto job market has truly changed over the last few months. Hiring top talent has never been easier. At the end of the day, there are only very few projects in crypto that are truly deep and worth working at/investing in, and most projects don't have that much money anymore. Over the last two months, we've made 5 killer hires starting this month. Can't wait.

Beyond policy, I feel like the two meta-problems that have slowed our industry down the most: - Solidity. Shipping truly safe code on EVM is brutally slow. - Talent attractiveness. Deep technical talent doesn't want to work in crypto. They don't see the impact they could create, they only see speculation. We've failed to make the substance of the work legible to people who could move the frontier.

The Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the address on Arbitrum One that is connected to the KelpDAO exploit. The Security Council acted with input from law enforcement as to the exploiter’s identity, and, at all times, weighed its commitment to the security and integrity of the Arbitrum community without impacting any Arbitrum users or applications. After significant technical diligence and deliberation, the Security Council identified and executed a technical approach to move funds to safety without affecting any other chain state or Arbitrum users. As of April 20 11:26pm ET the funds have been successfully transferred to an intermediary frozen wallet. They are no longer accessible to the address that originally held the funds, and can only be moved by further action by Arbitrum governance, which will be coordinated with relevant parties.

Morpho's fixed rate protocol now has a name: Morpho Midnight. Morpho Midnight is not an iteration of Morpho Blue. It is a completely new paradigm for onchain lending, and should not be considered a "V2" of Blue. Blue = pool-based open term variable markets with externalized risk management. Midnight = intent-based fixed term fixed rate markets with externalized risk AND rate management. The two will coexist, complementing one another to extend the capabilities of the Morpho network. We’ll start sharing more updates on Midnight as audits finalize.