Morpho is becoming the credit stack for institutions. What started as a yield optimizer has become the base layer other lenders build on. Morpho v2 keeps the core immutable and permissionless while adding key features for institutions to operate onchain. Apollo is acquiring up to 9% of Morpho's supply over four years. Morpho Midnight brings fixed rates and fixed terms to onchain lending. Borrower and lender intents match offchain and settle onchain as zero-coupon bonds, which opens up a real secondary market for the loans themselves. DeFi has never been able to pull this off at scale. Fixed rates are the foundation every mature credit market is built on. Pool-based lending can't deliver them because rates only adjust once utilization has already moved. Midnight gives DeFi a real yield curve that institutions can build on.(Delphi Digital)