Morpho blames AI marketing tool for deleted post that misrepresented its curator model

A DeFi lending protocol’s official account briefly told the world that its own business model runs on backroom deals. Morpho says a rogue AI marketing tool is to blame. On September 25, a post published from Morpho’s official X account described the protocol’s curator businesses as dependent on private, off-chain distribution deals rather than the transparent on-chain vault mechanisms the project has spent years building. The post was deleted shortly after, but not before it caught the attention of the DeFi community. What actually happened Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot addressed the situation on September 26, confirming that the tweet was not written or approved by anyone on the team. Instead, it was generated and published autonomously by a third-party AI marketing tool that had access to the protocol’s official X account. Frambot said access to the tool was revoked immediately and that the team launched an investigation into how the post was triggered. The specific AI marketing tool involved has not been publicly identified, and no details about what prompted the post have been disclosed. How Morpho’s curator model actually works To understand why the deleted post stung...