Partner with Gauntlet
Drive TVL to Gauntlet's yield vault & earn rewards
Generate streamed rewards when your audience supplies into Gauntlet’s risk-adjusted yield strategies.
Introduction
A strategic partnership for leaders in DeFi
Gauntlet’s affiliate program is a streamlined partnership that allows you to earn daily rewards for the Total Value Locked (TVL) you refer to the Gauntlet USD Alpha Vault. As a leader in the DeFi space, you can now offer your audience access to institutional-grade, risk-adjusted yield while generating a new, consistent revenue stream. Refer new suppliers, and as long as their capital remains in the vault, you continue to earn.
How it works
A simple, turnkey process
Our program is designed for efficiency and transparency, with no operational overhead.
Partner with Gauntlet by signing a simple agreement that outlines your custom referral rewards. We provide a dedicated dashboard to connect your wallet and get started immediately.
Receive a custom referral URL to track all capital supplied to Gauntlet’s vault from your referrals. All tracking is handled automatically.
Rewards are streamed daily in USDC on Base to your designated wallet via a permissionless smart contract. Payments continue as long as referred TVL remains in the vault.
Ready to partner with the foremost Risk Managers in Defi?
Join our exclusive network of partners and start earning rewards for referring TVL to Gauntlet. Apply now to receive your unique referral link and dashboard access.
Competitive, scalable research
Rewards that scale with your success
Our reward structure is designed to be highly competitive and directly reflects the value you bring to the Gauntlet ecosystem. As your referred TVL grows, your reward rate increases through multiple performance tiers, ensuring you are compensated for your continued success. To enhance your offer's appeal, new users you refer will also receive a bonus reward stream, creating a compelling incentive for their participation.
Specific, competitive reward tiers will be outlined in your partnership agreement.
Why partner with Gauntlet?
The Gauntlet Advantage
One agreement, one link. No complex integration or operational overhead required.
As long as your referred TVL stays in the vault, your wallet continues to receive daily rewards.
Access a daily updated dashboard to view your referred TVL and accumulated rewards at any time.
Introduce your audience to Gauntlet USD Alpha, a vault designed to achieve the best risk-adjusted yields on USDC in DeFi.
About Gauntlet USD Alpha
The best risk-adjusted yields on USDC in DeFi
Pursues the highest, risk-adjusted yield on stablecoins.
Built and managed by Gauntlet, a team trusted with over $45 billion in DeFi TVL.
Features top-tier security and regulatory compliance.
Ready to partner with the foremost Risk Managers in Defi?
Join our exclusive network of partners and start earning rewards for referring TVL to Gauntlet. Apply now to receive your unique referral link and dashboard access.
Gauntlet USD Alpha
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. To ensure brand consistency and compliance, we provide all partners with a comprehensive set of content and messaging guidelines. These will be shared with you during the onboarding process, and our team is available to answer any questions you may have.
No, only net new suppliers are eligible to be referred.
Rewards are paid out to a wallet address of your choosing in USDC on Base.
Rewards start streaming as soon as the first supply is attributed to your referral link and are distributed daily until withdrawn from the vault.
Users click your link, connect their wallet, sign a short on-chain message confirming the referral, and then supply capital.
Currently, referees do not have a dashboard view, but they receive rewards streamed directly to their wallets in Base USDC. This feature is on our UX roadmap.
You can track your referrals and TVL at any time on your dedicated dashboard.
About Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a leading DeFi strategy and risk analytics firm specializing in protocol design, on-chain capital efficiency, and risk-aware structuring.
Trusted by top protocols and institutions, Gauntlet uses quantitative simulation models to optimize yields and manage risk in complex on-chain environments.
The firm currently optimizes over $1 billion across DeFi vaults and has helped secure billions more across major protocols. In partnership with Apollo Global Management, Gauntlet designed a levered DeFi strategy for Apollo’s tokenized credit fund, enabling institutions to enhance RWA yields while maintaining risk controls and composability across on-chain markets.
Safety
Critical financial infrastructure can’t afford missteps in a competitive, dynamic industry. Our work guides protocols in evaluating risk responsibly.
Rigor
The frontier of finance requires analysis that is precise, methodical, and diligent in understanding and utilizing economic risk.
Innovation
Commitment to R&D allows us to understand novel risks in a rapidly developing industry — before they can adversely impact our clients.
Efficiency
Battle-tested quantitative techniques from TradFi are inherent in our modeling. Balancing capital efficiency and healthy risk is in direct conjunction with client return.
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