Overview
Updated 4h agoSmall markets built from explicit parameters
Morpho Blue's design creates markets using a loan asset, collateral asset, oracle, interest-rate model, and liquidation loan-to-value parameter. The core emphasizes immutable market configuration and a limited base-layer role. Its documentation also distinguishes the lending primitive from products built on top. This separation lets different risk choices coexist, but it means that the protocol brand alone does not establish that two markets have equivalent collateral quality or liquidation behavior.
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Direct lending and curated vaults
A supplier can evaluate an individual market, while a vault may allocate funds across several markets under its own rules and management structure. These arrangements create different exposures. In a simplified example, two markets lending the same stablecoin may use different collateral and oracles; a vault combining them adds allocation decisions to the underlying lending risks. An immutable core market does not make every external oracle, vault, or interface immutable.
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What isolation does and does not mean
Separate market accounting can limit how a bad-debt event is shared inside the protocol, but markets can still be economically connected through common collateral, price feeds, borrowers, or vault allocations. Liquidity may also be fragmented, affecting withdrawals and liquidations. Inspect exact market identifiers, configuration, utilization, and any curator's powers. Permissionless creation means a market can exist without being endorsed as safe; a listing in an interface is therefore a starting point for research, not a guarantee of suitable risk management.