Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a company specializing in full-service economic risk management for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. They offer a comprehensive suite of services, including ecosystem risk infrastructure, advisory services, incentive optimization, and custom research. Gauntlet has developed Aera Treasury Management, an onchain treasury management protocol, and uses financial modeling to simulate risk parameters, maximize returns, and mitigate risks. Their models have protected $43 billion in assets and process 380 billion predictive data points to ensure sustainable growth for crypto protocols, chains, and onchain treasuries. Gauntlet has published over 30 research papers and uses quantitative optimization techniques from traditional finance to monitor, calibrate, and promote economic stability across various protocols. They optimize protocol growth efficiency by driving usage, liquidity, and volume. Gauntlet partners with organizations such as the NEAR Foundation, Jupiter, Morpho, Linea, Moonbeam, and Blueberry to provide risk management, governance redefinition, and economic mechanism optimization. They offer a powerful data modeling platform that updates over 400 million data points daily and provide dynamic risk parameter recommendations based on market conditions. Gauntlet’s services cover the entire protocol lifecycle, including launches, upgrades, asset listings, and crisis management, and they offer an insolvency coverage guarantee to eliminate protocol loss from select market risks. Their industry-advancing research has over 1000 citations, and they provide community risk dashboards for transparency into market conditions. Gauntlet offers flexible service levels to protect protocols of all sizes and accelerate growth, along with economic audits, ecosystem risk dashboards, and market risk management training. Their team of over 60 alumni from top institutions delivers robust experience and service, ensuring customized scopes for protocol analysis needs, durations, and budgets.