DeFi risk management company Gauntlet announced that it is collaborating with DeFi lending protocol Morpho, following its sudden separation from Aave. The partnership, announced on February 27, will enable Gauntlet to build its own credit products on the new protocol called MorphoBlue. MorphoBlue will provide risk managers with the ability to create and manage their own credit protocols.

Unlike Aave, Morpho requires credit pools to answer to AaveDAO – the decentralized autonomous organization responsible for managing the protocol. After Gauntlet ended its relationship with Aave, there was a lot of speculation among DeFi market experts about the company's next move. The partnership with Morpho clears up much of the confusion on this issue.

Morpho's Blue protocol is a direct competitor to AaveV3 and CompoundV3, offering more transparent incentives and risk management for users. Aave continues to lead the DeFi lending market, with total value locked (TVL) exceeding $9.3 billion. The TVL value of Morpho was 2.7 billion dollars and Compound was 978 million dollars.

The split between Gauntlet and Aave was inevitable, and the reasons include weak incentives, cash flow scalability, and a combination of complex math and politics. What impact do you think Gauntlet and Morpho collaboration will have on the DeFi lending field? We are waiting your comments.