#317: Paul Frambot, CEO of Morpho Labs, on DeFi 2.0, Modular Layered Protocols, and The Next Evolution of DeFi

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Paul Frambot is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morpho Labs, a research and development company responsible for building and growing the Morpho protocol. Paul co-founded Morpho Labs whilst studying towards his, now-completed, Master's in Parallel & Distributed Systems from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in 2021. During his studies, Paul raised $18M from top investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Variant for Morpho, which has since grown into a multi-billion-dollar lending protocol. The latest version, Morpho Blue, is a completely independent but remarkably simple protocol that serves as a secure, efficient, and flexible base layer for users and applications.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Liquid staking and yield farming
- Next evolution of DeFi Spending
- Moving from App to Infra = the future of DeFi
- DeFi 2.0 will define crypto’s coming bull market
- Gauntlet leaving Aave to join Morpho
- 2024 will see a shift from monolithic to layered protocols
- DAOs are not suited for managing the risk of protocols
- Morpho Blue
- Lowering the barrier to entry
- Raising $18M while still in school
Morpho Labs
Website: morpho.org
X: @MorphoLabs
Discord: discord.morpho.org
Paul Frambot
X: @PaulFrambot
LinkedIn: Paul Frambot

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