Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a financial technology company headquartered in New York, New York, founded in 2018 by Tarun Chitra, Rei Chiang, and John Morrow. The company specializes in providing quantitative optimization and risk management solutions for the decentralized finance industry. Gauntlet develops financial modeling and simulation platforms that leverage... agent-based simulations to analyze market risk, economic incentives, and protocol parameters for blockchain protocols and smart contracts. The company's applied research teams work with leading DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and onchain treasuries to optimize capital efficiency, manage risk, and drive sustainable growth. Gauntlet offers institutional-grade DeFi vaults that provide risk-optimized yield strategies through all market cycles, serving both crypto-native and traditional finance portfolio managers. The platform processes millions of data points daily across multiple Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, with systems that refresh multiple times per day to ensure real-time risk monitoring. The company's team consists of data scientists, Solidity engineers, economists, and high-frequency trading veterans who have published numerous research papers with extensive citations. Gauntlet serves a diverse client base including DeFi protocols, DAOs, foundations, and public companies seeking to maximize capital efficiency through data-driven decision-making and advanced simulation modeling. The company was recognized in the Forbes Fintech 50 list for its contributions to making DeFi safer and more efficient.Read More