American hedge fund Pantera Capital today announced its investment in decentralized credit protocol Morpho. The company did not disclose the amount of the investment.
“Morpho wanted to develop a more robust, user-controlled risk assessment platform with a unique loan bundling and matching system,” Pantera said in the announcement.
Morpho previously raised $18 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Variant through a native token sale in July 2022.
The protocol allows various protocols and apps to be built on top of the base layer, Morpho Blue, which externalizes risk management and allows institutions to integrate it into their own risk and compliance management systems.
End users of Morpho’s lending and borrowing protocol can choose risk assessors, while other DeFi protocols hire third parties to manage risk, the release said. Morpho is over $970 million locked in total value.
New York-based research firm Gauntlet announced yesterday that it will work to design and manage risk for Morpho’s credit vaults.
Pantera did not immediately respond to The Block’s request for further details on the investment.
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