The two biggest lending protocols have their eyes on the same prize: tokenized stocks.
Both @Morpho and @aave are planning to take tokenized stocks as collateral, plugging into the securities lending market: roughly $4.6 trillion on loan globally, generating ~$35 billion a year in revenue that brokers currently keep most of.
Technically speaking, Aave V4's hub and spoke design is built for this, and Morpho already has Ondo's tokenized equities live as collateral (SPYon and QQQon). Both can take this collateral.
What's not settled is distribution. Whoever lands the issuers, the venues, and the front-end partners first attracts the deeper liquidity. And, whoever attracts deeper liquidity faster will likely be the winner in this race.
In other words, the differentiator will likely not be a technical one, it'll be a sales/BD one.
Morpho seems to be working the @base angle, as @PaulFrambot is openly excited for Base equities. On the other hand, Aave's known partners so far are VanEck, Circle, and Securitize.
Let the distribution games begin.
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