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Morpho & The Modular Application Thesis | Dan Elitzer & Paul Frambot

Morpho Modular Lending Protocol

Mar 27, 2024 • 1 min read

Can the DeFi Money Market sector be disrupted?

Today on the show, we have Dan Elitzer, GP at Nascent and Paul Frambot, the founder of Morpho.

Morpho is a borrowing and lending protocol with permissionless market creation. We cover its unique properties like modularity and whether or not it can compete with gargantuan incumbents like Aave and Compound.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

7:26 What is Morpho

11:48 The State of Defi 1.0

24:19 Morpho Optimizer27:04 Morpho Blue

37:18 MetaMorpho Vaults

49:18 The Importance of Security

51:33 Morpho Design Choices

1:00:10 Why Focus on Lending?

1:03:30 The Inflection Point

1:10:11 The Morpho Token

1:14:53 Modular Application Thesis

1:19:59 Closing & Disclaimers

RESOURCES

Paul Frambot

https://twitter.com/paulframbot

Dan Elitzer

https://twitter.com/delitzer

Morpho

https://morpho.org/

Morpho on X

https://twitter.com/MorphoLabs

Morpho on Farcaster

https://warpcast.com/morpho

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