Key Takeaways
We’ve launched Gauntlet-curated vaults on Kamino, bringing our institutional-grade curation to lending on Solana. Two vaults are live: Gauntlet USDC Prime and Gauntlet SOL Balanced. Deploying vaults on Kamino, the largest lending platform on Solana, will drive liquidity and continue to build internet capital markets on Solana.
Expanding Gauntlet curation to Kamino Lend is the next step in our mission to build institutional-grade yield opportunities across DeFi.
Curating on Solana: Expanding internet capital markets
Solana’s high-throughput architecture and growing liquidity base make Kamino a powerful platform for deploying our curated yield strategies at scale. With unified lending, borrowing, and leverage infrastructure, Kamino provides a vibrant platform to apply our vault-curation framework, refined through nearly two years of curating vaults, now totaling over $2B in TVL.
Users can supply USDC and SOL to our Kamino vaults, and our battle-tested curation engine automatically optimizes allocations. Backed by over seven years of managing risk for DeFi's largest protocols, our systems deliver real-time monitoring, dynamic allocations, and risk-off automation. Vault suppliers access institutional-grade yield strategies without needing to actively manage positions or market exposure.
Vault Curation: Real-time risk monitoring and yield optimization
At the core of Gauntlet-curated Kamino vaults is our curation engine, a system designed to identify, monitor, and allocate to yield opportunities in real time.
Before adding any market to a vault, we engage in a rigorous due diligence process, evaluating liquidity, oracle integrity, collateral behavior, and protocol design for each lending pool within the market before including it in our vaults. From there, our quantitative models determine allocations across markets, dynamically adjusting supply caps and exposure as conditions evolve.
When utilization, volatility, or rate thresholds change, our automation triggers risk-off or allocation actions to preserve vault supply while maintaining optimized yield. By bringing this framework to Kamino, USDC and SOL suppliers get access to institutional-grade yield strategies built on a wealth of data and quantitative modeling at their core.
Underpinning all our onchain actions is a robust security infrastructure. Security is fundamental to trusted vault curation, and as blockchain technology and its associated risks continue to evolve, so too will our security practices, ensuring we remain at the forefront of both innovation and onchain security.
Deep experience on Solana and Kamino
We’ve curated vaults on Solana for over a year, building delta-neutral trading strategies to drive sustainable yields. Working within the Solana ecosystem, we’re well acquainted with the community and its mission to build the next generation of capital markets onchain.
On Kamino, our applied research team has run extensive stablecoin incentive campaigns to build liquidity for USDC and EURC across Kamino, deploying 235K USDC and 555K EURC.
We’re advancing the next phase of institutional-grade DeFi on Solana by bringing Gauntlet's curated vaults to Kamino. Our collaboration deepens the foundation for efficient, risk-aware capital markets that are transparent, automated, and onchain.
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