Morpho’s $9 B+ Lending Engine Goes Native on Pharos Layer 1 for RWA Finance

Pharos Network and Morpho have been cooking up something big: a native lending layer for real-world assets built right into Pharos’s Layer 1 blockchain. If you think of Pharos as the new kid on the block, focused squarely on bringing traditional, off-chain assets on-chain, this partnership is the moment they’ve been waiting for. And Morpho, with over $9 billion in deposits under its belt, is the perfect match to help bring those assets to life.

At the heart of this collaboration is Morpho’s risk-isolated, capital-efficient lending engine. Instead of a one-size-fits-all pool where your investment could get tangled up in a dozen different loans, Morpho carves out separate vaults for each asset type, say, tokenized mortgages in one, trade receivables in another. That way, if something goes sideways in one vault, it doesn’t spill over into the rest. For asset originators, think institutions or large-scale projects, that isolation is a game-changer. And for lenders, it means getting matched with the best possible borrowers at the lowest spreads.

“For us, working together with Morpho is about building trust and composability at the core of RWAfi,” said Wish Wu, CTO and Co-Founder at Pharos. “By integrating Morpho’s lending infrastructure directly into our mainnet, we’re laying the foundation for a more transparent and capital-efficient on-chain credit ecosystem. It enables us to support complex, institution-grade lending strategies while preserving the modularity and openness that define DeFi.”

“Deploying natively on Pharos allows us to keep extending Morpho’s most trusted lending infrastructure to the real-world asset space following initial success like private credit and tokenized stocks,” said Kirk Hutchison, New Chains Growth at Morpho. “Pharos’ vision for RWAfi aligns with our commitment to transparent and scalable credit systems. Together, we are creating a powerful infrastructure for structured lending products, better risk pricing, and more accessible yield opportunities across both institutional and retail markets.”

Real-World Asset Lending Gets a Boost

So what happens next? Pharos plans to roll out its first Morpho-powered vaults in the coming quarter, starting with institutional-grade setups that leverage Pharos’s strengths in credit modeling, custody, and liquidity routing. Down the line, retail users will step into the same pools, tapping into yields backed by real-world collateral.

Imagine putting your stablecoins to work in a vault secured by trade receivables or a private debt instrument; now that’s DeFi meets Main Street. It’s worth noting that Pharos’s founding team is no back-alley startup: they’re the ex-leads from AntChain, the folks who built infrastructure for Alipay and Asia’s largest BaaS platform, alongside researchers from Microsoft and Stanford.

Toss in Morpho’s battle-tested lending rails, and you’ve got a recipe for real-world asset finance that could redefine how traditional finance and DeFi coexist. In the coming months, keep an eye on Pharos-Morpho vault launches, credit models, and liquidity frameworks. If they deliver on even half their promise, this partnership could be the spark that turns tokenized real-world assets from a futuristic idea into an everyday reality.