Gauntlet - Institutional DeFi Vaults & Risk-Optimized Strategies

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Integrated with institutions. Built for your use case.

Grow your Earn program

Access hundreds of onchain yield sources
and integrate Gauntlet Vaults with your App.

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Onchain yield, on your platform

Integrate Gauntlet Vaults into your proprietary client-facing systems for seamless access to yield.

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Yield opportunities that bridge TradFi and DeFi

Bring your real-world assets (RWAs) onchain and put them to work through Gauntlet Vaults.

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Diversify your balance sheet

Grow your crypto treasury through risk-managed yield vaults.

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Vault Curation

Full-stack vault curation, built for scale

Risk Management

Quantitative, model-driven frameworks with human oversight that have protected capital through every market cycle. Built on 8+ years of managing risk for the largest DeFi protocols.

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Yield Optimization

Lending, restaking, trading, and multi-strategy vaults that rebalance across 100s of markets, protocols, and chains to deliver risk-adjusted returns at scale.

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Infrastructure by Aera

Aera’s battle-tested onchain infrastructure can power your yield offering through composable and customizable vaults backed by Gauntlet’s full-stack risk management.

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Security

Our focus on institutional-grade security, unique among peers, instills confidence in our vaults and protects our onchain and offchain surface areas from multiple threat vectors.

HYPERNATIVE

Onchain monitoring

ZEROSHADOW

Instant 24/7  response monitoring

CHAINALYSIS

Onchain tracing

Integrating DeFi Yield

Gauntlet USD Alpha Powers
KAST's Earn Program

KAST, one of the world's leading stablecoin neobanks powers it's Earn Program with Gauntlet USD Alpha, bringing sustainable stablecoin yield to 500K users worldwide.

Gauntlet USD Alpha taps into select variable and fixed yield opportunities on protocols like Morpho and Pendle across Ethereum mainnet and L2s like Base, Optimism, and Arbitrum. Users pay no gas fees and protocol rewards are autoredeemed and compounded back into the strategy.

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Novel research that accelerates DeFi

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January 21, 2026

NASDAQ-Listed BTCS Uses Gauntlet Vaults on Morpho to Access Onchain Returns

By selecting the Gauntlet USDC Balanced on Mainnet, BTCS benefits from our risk management systems and quantitative modeling to capture sustainable DeFi returns.

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January 21, 2026

Gauntlet USD Alpha Powers KAST’s Earn Program Bringing Stablecoin Yield to 500K+ Users Worldwide

KAST, one of the world’s leading stablecoin neobanks has taken a great leap forward to offer its users the benefits of DeFi without the complexity.

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January 6, 2026

Gauntlet Applied Research 2025 Recap: Leading Growth Optimization and Risk Management in DeFi

GAR is the leading risk management and protocol optimization partner in DeFi, working with major protocols including Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, and Decibel.

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January 5, 2026

2025 Recap: A Watershed Year for Gauntlet Vaults

2025 marked an inflection point for vaults, as DeFi established itself as the future of financial infrastructure. As we step into 2026, we're taking a moment to reflect on some highlights.