Base Introduces Earn & Borrow With Aave and Morpho

App users and developers on Base are the immediate audience for this change, because lending and borrowing can now be embedded directly inside apps. That puts stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans into the app flow rather than outside it, while the liquidation rules from the underlying protocols still apply to borrowers.

In practice, the main change is that Base apps can offer Earn & Borrow features through Aave and Morpho instead of only presenting separate lending venues. What does not change is the protocol-level liquidation framework, which still governs borrowers inside the integration. (per cryptobriefing.com)

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