Gauntlet for DeFi Builders

Innovators compound value, together

The most prolific protocols, teams, and innovators in crypto work with Gauntlet. These teams make up the majority market share of DeFi (or soon will, we work with the best).

The results of our risk management, growth optimization, and advisory services are reflected onchain by our client’s total value locked (TVL) growth over nearly a decade. Few partners in crypto have been in the space since before DeFi was a commonly used term. We've been here since 2018.

Our vault partners on the supply and demand sides alike work with us because they plan for the long term. Only the best pass our due diligence. Our Applied Research team helps protocols exceed expectations from before day one through hyperscaling.

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Our Partners

Our clients and vault partners work with us because they know we have advised, curated, and delivered alpha through crypto’s bull and bear cycles alike.

$35B+

TVL under advisory through Gauntlet Applied Research (GAR)

Strategies across lending,, levered ETH staking, & perpetual futures

From Our Clients

Builders that partner with us exceed expectations

Joseph

Nerite, Solarpunk VC

Gauntlet is basically providing the kind of brutal risk management services that are needed to bring another $1T of capital into DeFi. We need more: risk managers, quants... This is how we win.

Dennis Dinkelmeyer

Founder, Midas RWA

(on Gauntlet TVL crossing $500M)
With the commitment, integrity and work ethic of the team at @gauntlet_xyz, I am not surprised.

What We Offer

Optimize the path to protocol growth

The most crypto-obsessed quantitative minds in DeFi

Our team of researchers and data scientists bring experience from the most impactful organizations in crypto, tech, and trading firms.

Applied research through market cycles

We have served the top DeFi primitives and most impactful protocols in DeFi, often before they were well-known or hit all-time-highs. We have lead DeFi risk management since 2018, before the term DeFi was commonly used.

Experience across the DeFi stack

Our expertise spans across ecosystems. Our clients benefit from these cross-functional insights. We have experts that work across verticals.

These include Automated Market Makers (AMMs), Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, staking, liquid staking, and restaking protocols, stablecoins, lending/collateralized debt position (CDP) protocols, centralized and decentralized exchanges and trading venues, and perpetual futures.

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Recent contributions and developments

Blog

March 31, 2025

Introducing the Gauntlet VaultBook: Demystifying Vault Curation

Our goal is to give you the tools to develop a deeper understanding of our role as Vault Curator by elaborating on the specific actions we take and the methodologies we employ to seek yield and mitigate downside risk.

Blog

March 25, 2025

Introducing Gauntlet Frontier Vaults: on the Hunt for DeFi Yields

Today, we announce the launch of the Gauntlet USDC Frontier Vault, the first in the new Frontier category, which targets the highest risk-optimized yields across Morpho Markets.

Blog

March 6, 2025

Building an Institutional-Grade Security Posture at Gauntlet

We invest in battle-tested security tools and partner with zeroShadow, Hypernative, Chainalysis, and Security Alliance — SEAL Intel to maintain institutional-grade processes as we optimize yield on $700M+ in Gauntlet-curated vaults and monitor $35B+ for partners across DeFi.