Morpho Raises $175M at $2B Valuation as Paradigm and A16z Back DeFi Push
Morpho has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The DeFi lending protocol is now valued at about $2 billion as it expands from crypto-native markets into institutional...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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This maps to the Institutional Adoption hub, so it can help confirm whether that theme is gaining breadth across the crypto news cycle.
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