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Morpho Launches Confidential Lending With Zama FHE
DeFi's onchain transparency exposes deposit size, timing, counterparty selection, and exit activity as a live financial statement, blocking institutions, market makers, and treasuries that cannot reveal strategies mid-execution. Morpho and Zama are launching a confidential lending integration that uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to encrypt balances and activity without breaking composability with the broader DeFi stack. Morpho's isolated markets are immutable once deployed, each scoped to one loan asset, one collateral asset, one oracle, one liquidation LTV, and one interest rate model, with curated vaults sitting above them where risk allocators like Steakhouse Financial direct deposits by strategy. Steakhouse curates the USDC Prime vault in the initial Zama integration, making this the first confidential lending pathway on Morpho designed for institutional capital.
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