Morpho attributed an unauthorized post from its official X account on Sept. 25 to a third-party AI marketing tool. The deleted tweet incorrectly described the protocol's curator businesses as dependent on private, off-chain distribution deals rather than transparent on-chain vault mechanisms.
Paul Frambot, Morpho's co-founder and CEO, confirmed on Sept. 26 that the post was neither written nor approved by any team member. Frambot said the AI marketing tool, which had access to the protocol's X account, generated and published the message autonomously.
Morpho revoked the tool's access immediately and launched an investigation into how the post was triggered. The specific AI tool involved has not been publicly identified.
The deleted post claimed that most curator businesses could not sustain operations solely through vault fees and relied on private distribution agreements—a claim that contradicts Morpho's design for transparency. Within the protocol's ecosystem, curators manage on-chain lending portfolios, design vaults with specific risk parameters, and earn fees based on vault performance and structure.
Morpho's Vault V2, launched in September 2025, introduced a role-based architecture for curators with granular control over risk settings. Actions taken by curators are subject to timelocks—a built-in delay allowing depositors to review and react before modifications become effective.
The incident underscores a specific risk of social media automation: insufficient oversight can produce factually incorrect or strategically damaging messages. The specificity of the error suggests the AI tool may have drawn on outdated or inaccurate training data about Morpho's functionality.
