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Morpho Opens Lending Markets for Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Base

The markets let eligible non‑U.S. holders borrow USDC against custody‑backed Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Meta and SpaceX tokens priced by Chainlink.

Overview

  • Morpho deployed lending markets that accept five Coinbase tokenized equities as 1:1 custody‑backed collateral and restrict access to eligible non‑U.S. investors.
  • Independent curator Steakhouse Financial set market parameters and supplied most liquidity for the largest pools, with each market enforcing loan‑to‑value and liquidation rules set by the curator.
  • Morpho uses Chainlink total‑return price feeds via its Chainlink V2 oracle adapter to value collateral and calculate borrow limits and liquidations.
  • On‑chain usage is small but real, with about $104,401 posted as collateral and $54,652 borrowed in USDC concentrated in Morpho’s variable‑rate pools while its Midnight fixed‑rate markets show no loans.
  • This launch builds on Morpho’s large Base footprint and Coinbase’s ADGM/Regulation S token structure with Alpaca custody, and it creates new consumer options to access dollars without selling shares while raising oracle, concentration and curator‑parameter risks to monitor.