Key Takeaways:
Morpho raised $175M from Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit at a $2B valuation.Morpho’s $6.6B TVL highlights rising institutional demand for DeFi lending.Paul Frambot aims to scale Morpho from crypto markets to Wall Street finance.Morpho has raised $175 million in fresh funding, giving the decentralized lending protocol a valuation of roughly $2 billion as it pushes deeper into institutional finance.
Frambot founded Morpho with fellow French co-founders Merlin Egalite, Julien Thomas, and Mathis Gontier Delaunay. The team first built lending tools on top of Aave before shifting toward a broader model that lets users create customized lending markets with their own risk settings.
That design has helped Morpho stand out. Rather than offering one centralized pool of lending rules, the protocol gives developers and institutions the ability to build markets tailored to specific assets, risk profiles, and borrowers.
