[ENG/ITA] Morpho: Getting Paid to Take a Loan!?
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Morpho: Getting Paid to Take a Loan!?
After talking about Jupiter Lending, a new lending service offered by Jupiter Finance available on Solana, featuring interesting functions like lending multiply, I’d now like to move to another chain while staying within the same context — lending platforms that allow you to deposit funds as collateral to borrow other assets.
Unlike Jupiter Finance, which was created as a DEX aggregator, Morpho is a platform entirely dedicated to lending and depositing funds.
While Jupiter offers some very interesting and convenient features, like the lending multiply function I mentioned above, Morpho presents itself as a much simpler platform — with fewer features, but way, way, way more options.
Morpho is available on a wide variety of chains, including Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Unichain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Soneium… and many more!
There are also many tokens you can deposit, although, as always, the main stars are BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC.
The variety is wide, which makes it much easier for interesting opportunities to arise, especially if you take the time to look around.
Lisk
Among the most interesting opportunities are the products available on the Lisk chain, definitely one of the least-known chains supported by Morpho.
Lisk is an Ethereum layer 2 — one of many — offering fast and very low-cost transactions (fractions of a cent).
It also has its own token, LSK, whose market cap is actually lower than HIVE’s — which says a lot about how unknown this chain still is. 😅
This makes it a somewhat risky chain, in my opinion, because projects like this can disappear far more easily than well-known projects that have been around for years...
...but sometimes there are opportunities so enticing that taking on some risk feels almost inevitable if you want to seize them.
For at least a month and a half now, by selecting Lisk as your chain on Morpho, you’ve been able to borrow funds and get paid to do it!

A pretty sweet deal, allowing you to deposit tokens like BTC or ETH and then earn a decent APR thanks to the borrowed funds — which you might then use to buy even more BTC and ETH.
High APR? How high?
Let’s take a look.
The two best offers at the moment involve wstETH — a liquid-staked form of Ethereum — and WBTC — a wrapped version of Bitcoin.
As you can see from the screenshot, by depositing wstETH or WBTC, you can borrow USDT0 and receive an APR of 56.92% for wstETH and 7.59% for WBTC.
Of course, you can’t borrow an amount equal to 100% of your collateral, but even reducing these values to 60-65% still leaves them very attractive… especially because it doesn’t end there!
The borrowed funds can then be deposited into Vaults available in Morpho’s Earn section:
This adds another 14.38% APR on top of the previous rates if, for example, you deposit USDT0 into the available Vault.
Rewards are paid in LSK, which can then be easily swapped for another token through the Velodrome Finance DEX.
As always, watch out for risks!
Overall, I’ve been having a good experience using Lisk through Morpho, and over the past month and a half, I’ve seen pretty decent returns on my small capital — especially considering that money wasn’t generating any interest before.
However, it’s important to emphasize that this strategy is not risk-free:
not only is Lisk a very small and almost unknown chain, but Morpho, through its enabled curators, also applies fairly risky strategies.
These work well in a stable or bullish market but far less so in a potential bear market.
It’s always essential to stay informed and never risk more money than you’re willing to lose.
Getting paid to borrow money is fun… but no one gives away free money, so if you don’t see costs, it means the risks are higher than they might seem at first glance.
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Morpho: Venire Pagati per Prendere una Somma a Mutuo!?
Dopo avervi parlato di Jupiter Lending, un nuovo servizio di lending offerto da Jupiter Finance e disponibile su Solana, dotato di funzione interessanti come quella di lending multiply, vorrei adesso spostarmi su un'altra chain ma restando sempre nello stesso ambito, ossia quello delle piattaforme di lending, che consentono di depositare somme come collaterale per prenderne altre a prestito.
Diversamente da Jupiter Finance, che nasce come aggregatore di dex, Morpho è una piattaforma interamente dedicata alla concessione di prestiti ed al deposito di somme di denaro.
A differenza di Jupiter, che offre alcune funzioni molto interessanti e comode, come quella di lending multiply cui accennavo sopra, Morpho si presenta come una piattaforma molto più semplice. con meno funzioni, ma con molta, molta, molta più scelta.
Morpho è disponibile infatti su tantissime chains, come, per citarne alcune: Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Unichain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Soneium... ed altre ancora!
Anche i token depositabili sono tanti, anche se, come sempre, il ruolo di protagonisti lo hanno BTC, ETH, USDT e USDC.
La scelta è ampia e per questo è molto più facile che si vengano a creare opportunità interessanti, soprattutto se si cerca un po'.
Lisk
E fra le più interessanti ci sono i prodotti disponibili sulla chain Lisk, sicuramente una delle chain disponibili su Morpho meno conosciute.
Lisk è una layer 2 di Ethereum - uno dei tanti - ed offre transazioni veloci e poco costose (frazioni di centesimi).
Ha anche un proprio token LSK, la cui capitalizzazione di mercato è più bassa di HIVE - *e questo la dice lunga su quanto poco conosciuta sia questa chain. 😅
Si tratta quindi di una chain che io considero un po' rischiosa, perchè progetti del genere possono sparire nel nulla molto più facilmente di progetti noti ed esistenti da anni...
... ma alle volte ci sono opportunità così allettanti che correre qualche rischio mi sembra inevitabile se si vuole provare a coglierle.
E' infatti almeno un mese e mezzo che su Morpho, selezionando Lisk come chain, è possibile prendere a prestito somme... venendo pagati per farlo!

Una possibilità niente male, che consente di depositare token come BTC o ETH e poi guadagnare un APR niente male grazie alle somme prese a prestito, utilizzando magari il ricavato per acquistare altri BTC ed ETH.
APR alto? Quanto alto?
Vediamolo subito.
Le due offerte migliori in questo momento riguardano wstETH - una forma liquid staked di Ethereum - e WBTC - una versione wrapped di Bitcoin.
Dallo screenshot potete infatti vedere come depositando wstETH o WBTC sia possibile prendere a prestito USDT0 ricevendo in cambio un APR che è pari, per wstETH, a 56.92% e, per WBTC, a 7.59%.
Ovviamente non è possibile prendere a prestito una somma pari al 100% del collaterale, ma anche riducendo questi valore al 60-65% restano comunque molto interessanti... soprattutto perchè non è finita qui!
Le somme prese a prestito possono essere infatti depositate a loro volta nei Vaults disponibili su Morpho nella sezione Earn:
Ecco che agli APR di cui sopra si aggiunge così un altro 14.38%, se deposito USDT0, ad esempio, nel Vault disponibile.
Le ricompense vengono pagate in LSK, che può poi essere facilmente scambiato per un token diverso tramite il dex Velodrome Finance.
Come sempre, attenzione ai rischi!
Nel complesso io mi sto trovando bene operando su Lisk tramite Morpho ed in un mese e mezzo ho ottenuto guadagni niente male, a fronte del piccolo capitale a mia disposizione, soprattutto considerato che prima quei soldi non stavano producendo alcun interesse.
Tuttavia è bene sottolineare come questa strategia non sia affatto esente da rischi: non solo Lisk è una chain molto piccola e praticamente sconosciuta, ma Morpho, a mezzo dei curatori abilitati, applica anche strategie abbastanza rischiose, che funzionano bene in un mercato stabile o rialzista, ma sicuramente molto meno in un eventuale bear market.
E' bene perciò sempre informarmi e non rischiare più soldi di quelli che si è disposti a perdere.
Venire pagati per prendere somme a prestito è divertente... ma nessuno regala nulla, per cui se non vedo spese, significa che i rischi sono più alti di quello che potrebbero sembrare ad un primo sguardo disattento.
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This post is very timely for me ! I need to look into your earlier post on Jupiter Lend multiply because I don't understand it at all. It's probably simple enough, but so am I :-)
I have just pulled my funds out of Jupiter Lend/Borrow , because I did not fundamentally understand the process. I worked out OK as I came out with more JLP than I put in, but my basic premise was mistaken.
I deposited JLP, borrowed USDC, bought JLP, deposited JLP, borrowed more USDC and bought more JLP to deposit...not too much, I was 28% leveraged , so a safe margin.
Here was my mistake, I saw the APY on JLP as 18% and the borrow APY on USDC as 6% , so, an easy margin I thought. I earn more on my JLP than I pay on my USDC . I also planned on JLP going up, which it did, and repaying the UDSC by selling JLP, (which I did). However I was annoyed to see no increase in my deposited JLP balance while my borrowed USDC balance was ticking up slowly.
Where is my JLP APY!!! , I asked on their discord and was told it does not work like that. But it worked like that on Suilend, deposit Sui, borrow USDC, earn on SUI and pay on USDC, what's different ?, I was told that JLP is a "self aggregating token" so it doesn't work like tat...totally over my head..it works like that for "regular tokens".
I was told I needed to use the JLP multiply...so I had a look, still confused. Withdraw finds ( small profit on JLP rise) and decide I'm not smart enough for this.
OK, now I see you have a post on Jupiter Multiply, I'm off to read it and see if I can get my head round JLP multiply.
Maybe I'll try again
I don't own any JLP, so I'm not 100% sure, but I think that it acts kinda similarly to those tokens know as "yeald bearing token", where the earnings aren't used to mint new tokens (which usually are then ditributed to the holders, who see their number of tokens increase) but are used to increase the token's value: so, intestad off seeing both your balance of tokens and total value increasing, you only see the total value growing, as every single token become more valuable with time.
That would explain why you weren't seeing your JPL balance growing, while their value was :)
With "multiply" you can do that trick (deposit, borrow, swap, deposit, etc) with one single tx: much quicker and easier! Same if you want to deleverage your position.
You can check my post for a brief introduction of the feature :)
"That would explain why you weren't seeing your JPL balance growing, while their value was :)"
Yup, that it, but I don't like it, I want to see more tokens :-) .I think I will use Jupiter Lend to borrow USDC and buy SOL when I think SOL is at a low point and likely to move up. I can deposit the SOL and earn APR while I wait, and then when it rises , sell the SOL to repay the USDC and see if I can have some SOL left over. I need to look about and see if I can get an apy on the SOL that is higher than the apy I pay to borrow the USDC
If you swap SOL for something like MSOL, BSOL, JupSOL, etc, you can get an APR around 7-8%. And if you want you can use it (at least JupSOL) with the multiply feature to get an APR even higher!
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