Julien Thomas
Co-Founder & lead dev at Morpho
Julien Thomas is the co-founder and lead developer of Morpho Labs. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and Paris Telecom.
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DeFi Frontier is live 🚀 Inside: ✅ @mamo new USDC vault "high double digit apy" ✅ @LiquityProtocol's BOLD - low risk, high reward ✅ @Morpho Midnight ✅ The mysterious dCOMP vault ✅ Are we getting Clarity? ✅ + More Full report 👇 https://www.the-edge.xyz/p/defi-frontier-july-22nd
🚨LIVE: Robinhood Chain Exploding?! CLARITY Updates! ETH/BTC Ratio Bottomed?! HYPE Weakness, PUMP & LIT Strength! Morpho & Robinhood Join The Show https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nKOLLZNrqzGR
Happy Wednesday from the Tokenization Tower. Big wek with the CLARITY talk. BTC steady around $66K, though HYPE and ZEC are both having a rough week...some whale movements on HYPE from Multicoin & Selini unstaking. Tokenized stocks hit $2B market cap, up 170x year over year, and Coinbase's Armstr
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.
Evolution of DeFi Vaults 2020 Yearn automates yield 2022 ERC-4626 standardizes vaults 2024 Morpho externalizes risk to curators 2024 ERC-7540 async vaults unlock RWAs 2025 Stream Finance collapse freezes $160M 2026 Vault TVL passes $74B 2026 Newton launches VaultKit
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