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Excited to release the Tenor docs and more info on how Tenor extends @Morpho Midnight Private beta in progress. Launch 🔜
Today we're releasing the Tenor docs. Learn how Tenor extends @Morpho Midnight.
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Looking forward to Vault Summit NYC next week! Send me a DM if you'd like to meet up or run. I'll be in town with @PYGendron
Fixed-rate borrowing and lending markets built on @Morpho Midnight. Tenor offers asset managers and borrowers an institutional-grade platform to settle OTC agreements onchain, set renewal policies, and create conditional offers — all in one place. @TenorFinance joins Vault Summit NYC as Gold Sponsor. June 5, New York · nyc.vaultsummit.xyz
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Pierre-Yves Gendron retweeted
Replying to @delitzer
> Over time, I expect more liquid markets to develop around Midnight loans @TenorFinance coded 👀
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Vault Summit NYC will be held at the @NYSE Hosted by @Morpho. Capital allocation, vault infrastructure, institutional curation. Conversations that will define how capital moves onchain for generations. June 5 · nyc.vaultsummit.xyz
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Can't wait to talk about fixed rates and what we've been cooking with @TenorFinance at the Vault Summit in NYC. (suit not included)
Fixed-rate, fixed-term onchain lending markets will unlock new features necessary for institutional adoption. @pygendron, Co-Founder at @TenorFinance will take the stage at Vault Summit NYC. June 5, NYC · nyc.vaultsummit.xyz
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The next unlock in DeFi is turning protocols into products built for institutions — keeping what makes DeFi powerful (immutable, non-custodial code) while adding the control more sophisticated players need: isolated markets, user-set rates, renewal policies, gates, liquidation grace periods, and onchain circuit breakers. Great post from @pat_mayr on higher order DeFi
The pessimism in some circles belies the entrepreneurial activity in crypto right now. Here's the 5 areas I'm spending most of my time on rn: – Higher-order DeFi – New consumer markets – Onchain privacy – Crypto as a launchpad – Quantum resilience pmayr.xyz/where-im-spending-…
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I feel like non-custodiality is deeply underrated and misunderstood. Once you're truly non-custodial, by definition, there is no one to hack who can take custody of your funds. This is why we spent so much time building the Morpho Stack as immutable, and vaults that are fully onchain with timelocks.
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Tenor's Private Beta is coming 🔜. Public launch shortly after @0xphilgood will finally be able to stop his 10K a day running challenge
M̶o̶r̶p̶h̶o̶ ̶M̶a̶r̶k̶e̶t̶s̶ ̶V̶2̶ -> Morpho Midnight For those wanting an early look at what we've been building on Midnight, Morpho's new intent-based fixed rate lending protocol — reach out. We're kicking off the Tenor Private Beta in the coming weeks as Midnight and Tenor contracts move through audits
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We've been building on top of Morpho [TBA] for months now, and I can attest, it's a total paradigm shift. Morpho [TBA] will offer highly efficient and flexible market infrastructure to build lending markets way beyond what's possible with the simple pool-based primitives we have today. Think markets to borrow stablecoins against RWAs, FX, or structure bespoke P2P agreements. With fixed rates you can actually scale these markets with infra that's better than what Tradfi can offer. We've been building multiple products and features on top of Morpho [TBA] to create the best platform for asset managers and large scale borrowers to access these onchain markets with @tenorfinance. Think highly configurable bespoke agreements, auto-renewal features, advanced offer types, organization role based access control via vaults, all with a snappy interface. Incredibly excited for both to launch in the coming months. Also the Morpho [TBA] name goes extremely hard 👀
As we approach the official release of Morpho’s fixed rate markets protocol it’s becoming clear that it should not be seen as an iteration of the existing Morpho variable rate markets (today known as Markets V1). It is a completely new paradigm that’s unlike anything DeFi has seen before. Fixed rate markets are an extension of Morpho's offering, not a replacement. Variable rate markets remain a foundational part of DeFi for the few years to come. The two will complement one another. For that reason, we’re drop the versioning naming we've been using up until now, and the protocols will no longer be named Markets V1 and Markets V2. We’re changing: Markets V1 → Morpho “Blue” (as it was originally) Markets V2 → Morpho “[TBA]” Blue introduced permissionless open-term variable rate markets, with externalized risk management. [TBA] will introduce fixed term, fixed rate, intent lending, with externalized risk and rate management. A completely different structure for pricing and matching that will take Morpho from $10B to $100B . As a side note: Morpho Vaults retain versioning because Vaults V2 is a direct improvement designed to supersede Vaults V1, exactly what versioning is meant to signal. It has been an incredibly hard 2 years of building [TBA], but we are very excited to share more information about Morpho fixed-rate markets soon.
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Morpho V2 is what the bond market would look like if it were rebuilt from first principles with Turing completeness This will become abundantly clear in the year of our lord 2026 inshallah
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Morpho Markets v2 will make it possible to bring virtually any offchain lending agreement onchain. Customizable rates, terms, grace periods, counterparties, collateral requirements (if any). 2026 will be a turning point for onchain lending
The biggest lending book in 2025 was Telegram. In 2026, it will be Market V2.
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Great recap of the history of onchain lending markets by @JackLongarzo One key point is that low-governance protocols like @MorphoLabs are very attractive for builders, enabling innovation on an immutable foundation. Morpho has nailed it with its modular approach and is taking it further with V2, letting builders expand their stack with new modules and features
Lending is one of DeFi’s killer apps In this week’s Work in Progress, @JackLongarzo @jessewldn and I discuss the evolution and trade-offs in lending protocols: from pooled liquidity —> isolated markets —> modular, open design Plus, what it means for builders and new users
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29 Sep 2025
The first phase of Morpho V2 is live: Vaults V2. A new vault standard that enables curators to set themselves apart with differentiated strategies. Here’s why it matters 🧵
29 Sep 2025
The 1→100 moment for vaults is here. Morpho Vaults V2 is a new open-source standard designed to power the future of asset curation. Live now on @ethereum and soon onchain everywhere.
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Big shift: moving from pool-based rates to P2P matching unlocks predictable, fixed-term borrowing. Excited to see how @TenorFinance @MorphoLabs V2 reshape onchain credit markets.
16 Sep 2025
Onchain borrowing is about to change from Pools to Peer-to-Peer. Today, most borrowing relies on pools with interest rate models (IRMs) tied to utilization. Soon users will set rates directly 🧵
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"Institutions want fixed rates, large scale consumers want fixed rates." - @PaulFrambot Fixed rates are the next step for onchain borrowing markets 🦋🎶
🎙️ New @edge_pod 🦋 Morpho V2 and Collapsing The Cost of Trust With DeFi 0:00 - Intro 6:01 - The vision for Morpho 9:02 - Modular approach 10:35 - The role of risk curators in Morpho 13:11 - Integration with @coinbase 20:56 - Education aspect of DeFi loans 24:34 - Exploring RWAs on Morpho 28:01 - Decentralized BD for scaling Morpho 30:01 - How Morpho makes money 32:49 - Transitioning to token-only model 37:40 - V2 fixed rates and institutional focus 42:35 - V2 will be multichain 44:50 - The future of Morpho pricing trust 47:24 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to @MorphoLabs CoFounder & CEO @PaulFrambot for joining us!
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12 Aug 2025
Morpho’s positive sum ethos is why we're building with them The Future of (Nouvelle) France
This captures Morpho's mindset well: we always aim for win-win situations where all stakeholders benefit from collaboration. Some examples: - @sparkdotfi @pendle_fi @ethena Morpho - @sparkdotfi @coinbase Morpho
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17 Jul 2025
Lots of folks already building on top of @MorphoLabs' Morpho V2 ahead of launch...
17 Jul 2025
“I’m super excited about Morphos V2 announcement and what that's going to enable. We've actually already invested in a team that is building on top of that. Multiple of our portfolio companies are actually gonna be building on Morpho V2. It's just amazing infrastructure…”
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0/ How the DeFi Mullet will bring the benefits of Ethereum to billions of real users. A guest thread by @PaulFrambot from @MorphoLabs.
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Really bullish on this collaboration between @TenorFinance and @MorphoLabs. Our aim is for Tenor to become the dominant platform built on top of V2 and build the future of (Nouvelle) France! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
26 Jun 2025
Welcome @TenorFinance as an official collaborator for Morpho V2 🦋🎶 Tenor is developing a platform for end-users and large-scale integrators to help scale Morpho V2's fixed-rate lending into the trillions
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