{"id":612090,"date":"2026-06-10T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=821526"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:30:26","slug":"morpho-raises-175m-at-2b-valuation-as-paradigm-and-a16z-back-defi-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/morpho-raises-175m-at-2b-valuation-as-paradigm-and-a16z-back-defi-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Morpho Raises $175M at $2B Valuation as Paradigm and A16z Back DeFi Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/morpho-raises-175m-at-2b-valuation-as-paradigm-and-a16z-back-defi-push_nwmk-2-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Morpho logo on mobile phone with chart in background\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Morpho has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The DeFi lending protocol is now valued at about $2 billion as it expands from crypto-native markets into institutional finance. Morpho Targets Institutional Finance as TVL Hits $6.6B Morpho has raised $175 million in fresh funding, giving the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morpho has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The DeFi lending protocol is now valued at about $2 billion as it expands from crypto-native markets into institutional finance. Morpho Targets Institutional Finance as TVL Hits $6.6B Morpho has raised $175 million in fresh funding, giving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-612090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}