Morpho Midnight opens audit competition with $400,000 prize pool
Morpho Midnight has launched an audit competition with a prize pool of $400,000 to identify bugs in its new fixed-rate lending protocol. This amount is double the bounty offered in its previous contest, reflecting the importance of security in decentralized finance. The competition is a critical step before the protocol's deployment, following two years of development.
- ▪Morpho Midnight is a new fixed-rate lending protocol from Morpho, the second-largest DeFi lending platform.
- ▪The audit competition is accepting submissions on Cantina and offers a total prize pool of $400,000.
- ▪The protocol aims to introduce intent-based fixed-rate and fixed-term lending markets, differing from the variable-rate model of Morpho Blue.
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