Morpho Effect: July 2025
Newsletter
July was when the 🦋 took flight.
TLDR
🔹 Morpho’s total deposits reach $9B
🔹 Coinbase Loans collateral exceeds $1B with over $500M in active loans
🔹 Ethereum’s DeFi Mullet is inevitable
🔹 Morpho Mini App now available on the Base App (beta)
🔹 New Privy Recipe enables developers to integrate Morpho-powered yield in hours
Highlight of the month
Morpho's Explosive Growth in July
Total deposits on Morpho broke $7B, $8B, and $9B, reaching new all-time highs.
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Ethereum's DeFi Mullet is Inevitable
“Fintech in the front, DeFi in the back” is how we bring the benefits of decentralized financial systems to billions of people.
Coinbase's Morpho integration enters the 3 Comma Club
With $500M+ in active loans, $600M+ in total originations, and $1B+ in total collateral, the DeFi Mullet can’t stop and won’t stop.
New Privy Recipe: Integrating Morpho-Powered Onchain Yield Made Simple
Any developer can now embed Morpho-powered yield into their app via Privy by Stripe.
Morpho Mini App Now Available on the New Base App
New on the Morpho App
Multiply
Repay with Collateral
Swap
The Morpho App now has a suite of borrower-friendly tools
Filter by wallet holdings
What's in the Numbers
Morpho on Base exceeds $2B, making it the largest DeFi protocol instance on any Ethereum L2
USDC summer hits Morpho with over 1.6B USDC now deposited on the platform
$1.7B in cbBTC (or 30% of total cbBTC supply) is productive on Morpho
Went live just 1 month ago, Morpho on Katana reaches 300M+ in total deposits
Ecosystem Updates
- 500M+ in Pendle tokens are now collateralized on Morpho
- Morpho launches on Telegram via TAC, bringing its trusted lending network to 1B+ Telegram users
- Morpho wins the inaugural CFM grant from the Uniswap Foundation, unlocking $100,000 in incentives for Morpho users on Unichain
- World DeFi is truly global: none of the top 5 user origin countries are traditional “Western Nations”
- Hypernative monitoring tools now available for curators
- Spark emerges as one of the largest asset allocators on Morpho, providing over 80% of USDC liquidity to Coinbase crypto-backed loans users
- MORPHO Rewards live on Katana and rewards increased by 0.5% for USDC vaults on Base
- cbBTC growth on Morpho outpaces overall cbBTC growth
- Vault V2 security audit competition successfully completed