John McCarthy
General Counsel at Morpho
John McCarthy is currently the General Counsel at Morpho.Previously he worked at Fireblocks.
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Borrowing against bitcoin is getting meaningfully cheaper. With Morpho Midnight, fixed-rate loans backed by cbBTC are available in the 4% range. For comparison, Freddie Mac’s national average for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.55%. That spread is hard to ignore. https://x.com/Morpho/status/2079552
We co-led Morpho's seed in 2022 on the belief that *minimal* lending primitives could become infrastructure underpinning onchain finance. Today it's used by Robinhood, Coinbase, Société Générale, Apollo and other leading fintech and financial institutions for variable rate lending products.
We are a few hours in the launch but already seeing a bit of automated activity on the rate book of Morpho Midnight. People start to realize how big of an opportunity rate market making will become.
👋 See you in Hong Kong for an afternoon with @HSKChain, @Morpho and leaders across finance and Web3. RSVP: https://luma.com/y84xn9th https://x.com/HSKChain/status/2077224223291199622
RT @SteakhouseFi: Midas Fasanara mGLO in Morpho Onchain Repo This memo reviews mGLO on Base as collateral in the mGLO/USDC Morpho market.…
JUST IN: New listings have arrived to Grvt. SK HYNIX & MORPHO are LIVE and ready to trade. $SKHY - the memory giant behind the AI buildout. $MORPHO - one of DeFi's core lending protocols. More names. More markets. Same place. https://t.co/SpkMlaIPZR
RT @jessepollak: if you're building on @morpho midnight, reply! so many new use cases and want to find ways to help
Predictability, now in your hands Introducing Morpho Fixed Rate Markets on the new Markets App Lend and borrow directly from fixed rate, fixed term markets
Philippe literally ran 2,000+ km, up to the launch of Morpho Midnight. wtf. https://x.com/0xphilgood/status/2079699138875179418
One small step for Morpho, one large step for onchain lending https://x.com/paulframbot/status/2079552858878562505