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Base Launches Earn and Borrow Features Built on Aave and Morpho

Base has introduced Earn & Borrow, letting apps embed variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans through integrations with Aave and Morpho. Borrowers using the feature remain subject to the underlying protocols’ liquidation rules. The offering is aimed at developers who want to add on-chain lending and borrowing directly inside their apps.

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The significance lies less in a new lending product than in distribution: Base is turning Aave and Morpho into embedded primitives that any app on the chain can surface, which pushes lending from destination dApps toward invisible infrastructure. Developers gain an easy compliance-light path to offer yield and credit, while the risk stays with the underlying protocols — meaning liquidation mechanics, not the Base interface, define user outcomes. The open question is whether embedded access broadens the borrower base or simply concentrates existing DeFi users into more surfaces.

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