HashKey Chain announces strategic partnership with Morpho to build institutional CeDeFi and RWA lending infrastructure
The HashKey Chain x Morpho tie-up pairs a Hong Kong SFC-licensed operator with a leading on-chain credit protocol, positioning the ecosystem to capture regulated institutional lending volume in RWAs — this is a partnership announcement, not capital deployment, so deal flow impact remains to be seen.
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