Seed-deposit requirement for new market listing
Morpho V1 (Morpho Blue + MetaMorpho)'s assessment for RD-F-071 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No protocol-enforced seed deposit for new Morpho Blue market creation. Any address can create a market with any whitelisted LLTV and any oracle without a minimum seed deposit. Dead deposit (1e9 shares to 0xdead) is recommended guidance for curators, not code-enforced.
Detail #
Morpho Blue market creation is permissionless — anyone can call createMarket() with valid (collateral token, loan token, oracle, IRM, LLTV) parameters. No minimum supply deposit is required at creation. The documentation recommends curators perform a dead deposit of 1e9 shares to the 0xdead address after creation, but this is advisory guidance, not a require() check in the contract. Template: green = seed deposit ≥ configured floor required before borrow-enable (code-enforced); yellow = no code-enforced seed deposit. Yellow applies.
Sources #
- DocsMarket dead deposit tutorialdocs.morpho.org/curate/tutorials-market-v1/dead-deposit — dead deposit is curator guidance (1e9 shares to 0xdead), not protocol-enforcedretrieved 2026-04-27
- Morpho Blue market conceptsdocs.morpho.org/learn/concepts/market — permissionless market creation with any whitelisted parameters; no minimum deposit requirement specifiedretrieved 2026-04-27
Methodology #
Determine whether market-listing governance or code requires a minimum seed deposit before borrow-enabling a new market.
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