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Morpho's app and api frontends went dark for about three hours in a partial outage that principal engineer Julien tied to an AWS CloudFront disruption. All Morpho services have since been restored and are operating normally, per an update from the team.
YEET co-founder Mando reported that the project's website was also knocked offline by the same CloudFront event, underscoring how a single CDN-layer issue on a hyperscaler can ripple across multiple DeFi frontends at once. Mando stressed that the incident had no impact on user assets or funds, and that the team was working to bring the site back.
Why it matters
The outage is a familiar reminder of how exposed even decentralized protocols remain at the edge. Morpho's on-chain lending markets kept functioning through the event; the disruption sat entirely in the public-facing layer that aggregates positions and routes user actions through a hosted frontend. Users with cached interfaces or direct contract access were unaffected, but anyone trying to land on app.morpho.org or api.morpho.org saw errors for the duration of the incident.
The shared root cause with YEET points to AWS CloudFront as the shared dependency, the CDN-fronted layer sitting in front of both projects' hosted infrastructure. Any protocol that puts user flows behind a single hyperscaler CDN inherits that provider's availability profile for the duration of an outage, a trade-off the space has wrestled with since the early dApp era.
Frequently asked questions
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What caused the Morpho frontend outage?
Principal engineer Julien tied the partial outage to an AWS CloudFront disruption. All Morpho services have since been restored.
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Were user funds on Morpho affected by the outage?
No. The disruption sat at the hosted frontend and API layer; Morpho's on-chain lending markets kept functioning throughout the event.
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Did the outage hit other DeFi projects?
Yes. YEET co-founder Mando reported that YEET's website was knocked offline by the same CloudFront event, with no impact on user assets.
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How long did the Morpho outage last?
Roughly three hours, from the initial disruption until all Morpho services were restored to normal operation.
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Why does a CloudFront issue break DeFi frontends?
Many DeFi protocols host their user-facing interfaces behind hyperscaler CDNs like CloudFront. When the CDN layer fails, the hosted frontend goes dark even though the underlying smart contracts keep running on-chain.
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