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what's gauntlet?

Gauntlet is a DeFi platform specializing in institutional-grade vaults and risk-optimized strategies for onchain assets. It provides curated vaults that allocate capital to high-yield opportunities across protocols like Morpho and Pendle on multiple chains, focusing on stablecoins such as USDC to maximize returns while managing risk. The platform uses advanced modeling for market risk, economic incentives, and sustainable growth for top crypto protocols, chains, and treasuries. Key features include automated governance, yield optimization, and partnerships with ecosystems like Base and Solana.

Snapshot

Gauntlet suffered a $5M USDS hack, following a $270M Drift Protocol exploit.

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RISK ALERT

Suffered a hack that included USDS among the affected assets, with approximately $5 million in USDS compromised.

RISK ALERT

Affected by Drift Protocol exploit on 2026-04-01, draining $270M in real assets from its strategy vault, with 20 protocols impacted.

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VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in Digital Asset Summit Day 2 panel discussion on March 25, 2026, with Tarun Chitra representing Gauntlet alongside Muriel Medard from Optimum.

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ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Sits at $1.05M liquidity in USDC Frontier vault on mainnet, across wstUSR/USDC ($1.09M), PT-RLP-9APR2026/USDC ($479K), and RLP/USDC ($374K) markets as of March 23, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Resolv USDC vault on mainnet has $1.03M primarily in RLP/USDC, USR/USDC, and wstUSR/USDC markets.

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Exploited Morpho vaults for $25M in Resolv Labs USR depeg on March 22, 2026, with Gauntlet's bots worsening $7.5M direct exposure by supplying USDC post-exploit. Disabled deposits, reduced caps, received 438,401 USDC from Coinbase on March 23; serves as risk curator for Seamless Protocol's USDC Vault on Morpho, works with Resolv on remediation.

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Integrated over 50 Gauntlet Vaults into Blockdaemon's Earn Stack, enabling institutional access to stablecoin, ETH, and Morpho Vaults across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base.

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Integrated with DeFi Saver Smart Savings, allowing DeFi Saver users to access Gauntlet's yield opportunities through Lazy Summer vaults.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Supplied USDC to Pendle's PT-USDG looping pool.

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Integrated with Privy, providing risk strategies and onchain yield solutions, curating Morpho Vaults, leveraging $1.8B+ in capital across 150+ integrations.

ONCHAIN METRICS

USDC Prime vault has reached $126M in total deposits with atomic liquidity between 32-62%.

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Gauntlet Vaults holds over $50M in assets from Trust Wallet users, with approximately 2x growth in 2026.

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Gauntlet Vaults on Morpho is natively integrated with Trust Wallet, allowing users to access yield directly within the Trust Wallet app.

TECH EVENT

Launched BTC Yield vault week of March 11, 2026, holding 788K TVL and 2% APY.

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Partners with Ample protocol alongside Morpho and Euler Finance to support prize-linked savings vaults on chains including Katana and Arbitrum.

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Operates curated vaults on Morpho platform alongside Kraken, Apollo, and Bitwise as vault managers.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $300M in USDT yield product deposits within the first week. Gauntlet curated, OKX integrated on Morpho.

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Collaborating with Lombard Finance to generate real yield on BTC through composability mechanisms.

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partnered with glamsystems to bring institutional yields to gtUSDa

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Integrated with Scrypt Swiss to provide institutional clients secure 24/7 access to DeFi yield through Gauntlet Vaults.

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Received treasury diversification deployment from Nasdaq BTCS into Gauntlet Vaults.

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VISIBILITY EVENT

Co-Founder and CEO Tarun Chitra will speak at TOKEN2049 conference on April 29-30, 2026, discussing simulation at institutional scale.

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Launched USDT Frontier Vault on Morpho's Ethereum deployment, allocating to the sUSDD/USDT market in collaboration with Morpho and USDD.

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Integrated with Anchorage, Morpho, Morpho Vaults, Ledger Business, Kiln, Steakhouse Financial, and Ledger Enterprise for institutional access to USDC, USDT, and WETH vaults.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Participated in Solana Breakout Space Day 3 on February 12, 2026, with Luke Sterle.

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Partnered with Ondo Finance and Morpho to integrate tokenized equities SPYon and QQQon into the RWA USDC vault on Ethereum.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Attended Consensus 2026 conference in Hong Kong hosted by CoinDesk on February 10, 2026.

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Launched a levered RWA strategy in partnership with FalconX, Pareto, and M11 Credit in 2025, featuring a curated vault that deposits FalconX Credit Vault tokens as collateral on Morpho and uses borrowed USDC to buy additional CV tokens in a leveraged loop.

TEAM UPDATE

Tarun Chitra of gauntlet_xyz joined as an investor in fogo through robotventures, led by Robert Leshner.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Deposited $56K USDC as incentives for veCRV and vlCVX voters on Votemarket Base for a cbETH/WETH campaign on Curve Finance, planned for 8 weeks starting on 2026-01-05.

OPINION SPECULATION

Predicted as a 2026 trend to move toward modular isolated markets, recapture OEV instead of leaking value to searchers, and stop treating oracles as a cost center.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Received $850,000 from Uniswap Foundation according to their 990 filing.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured as a speaker at the Solana Money Summit conference.

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Hosted Demo Day for Cohort 3 on December 17, 2025.

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KAST launched business accounts with Solana DeFi savings featuring Gauntlet-powered yield generation, providing cross-chain yield access through KAST Earn for over 500,000 users via Gauntlet USD Alpha vault.

Gauntlet USDC Prime now available in Wirex business accounts through Morpho's Base deployment, providing DeFi yield access to business treasuries.

Integrated Gauntlet USDC Prime into Wirex business accounts on Morpho's Base deployment, enabling over $10M in stablecoin yield.

Nook platform works with Gauntlet for onchain yield access alongside other fintech partners.

Two engineering positions now open: Quantitative Software Engineer ($150K-205K) and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App ($165K-205K), both remote roles available in US and Canada.

Index Coop's hyETH product successfully migrated to a Gauntlet-managed vault structure during 2025.

Gauntlet Vaults on Morpho receive an A rating from Yearn's curation and monitoring services.

Cross-chain USDC supply for Gauntlet USD Alpha (gtUSDa) now available on Ethereum Mainnet, adding to existing support on Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism chains.

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Launched Gauntlet Affiliate program. Integrated Wirex business accounts with USDC Prime on Morpho's Base and facilitated a one-month USDC borrowing incentive on HyperLend, reducing net borrow rates.

Became an active vault curator on Kamino with whitelisted reserves for Kamino-whitelisted markets, also providing risk management for Altitude Earn's integration.

Partners with OKX to manage USDT vaults on Morpho's Katana deployment, using USDC and ETH lending strategies on Ethereum mainnet, contributing to Morpho's market size doubling.

Two engineering roles open for remote hire in Canada/US: Quantitative Software Engineer and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App, with compensation between $150K-205K.

Cove DAO has an active Snapshot proposal to fund the renewal of Gauntlet's operations.

Partnered with Hastra Finance, an institutional-grade lending protocol on Solana incubated by Figure and Provenance Foundation, backed by Figure's $14B+ HELOC TVL. Integrated with Figure, Hastra, and Maple Finance for RWA composability through the USDC Frontier product.

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Warned to withdraw funds from Gauntlet USDC Core and Smokehouse USDC vaults on Morpho due to liquidity stress. USDC Core vault on mainnet holds $4.95M in wstUSR/USDC market with $2.91M current liquidity, while liquidity sits at $11.52M as of March 23, 2026.

Gauntlet USD Alpha deploys natively on Optimism mainnet, enabling direct USDC supply to gtUSDa without bridging or swapping.

Decibel launches testnet on Aptos featuring an onchain risk system built with Gauntlet, marking a collaboration where Gauntlet provides risk infrastructure for a platform offering perps, vaults, and margin trading.

Users can now supply USDC directly to Gauntlet USD Alpha on Arbitrum without bridging or swapping.

Gauntlet opens hiring for two remote engineering positions (US, Canada): Quantitative Software Engineer at $150K-205K and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App at $165K-205K.

Vaults expand to multi-chain deployment and a major update to Gauntlet USD Alpha product is announced.

Launched app UX upgrade, adding revamped homepage with featured vaults, streamlined navigation across chains and strategy categories, and an AI apply page.

Gauntlet competes with Steakhouse for the top position in the vault curator market on Morpho platform.

Decibel Trade, an Aptos-backed perpetual DEX, uses Gauntlet's technology for its onchain risk engine ahead of Q1 2026 mainnet launch.

Gauntlet experienced no bad debt during 10/10 and stream finance market events.

Gauntlet opens remote hiring for two engineering positions: Quantitative Software Engineer ($150K-205K) and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App ($165K-205K), available in US and Canada.

Base USDC Prime fee reduced from 5% to 0%, with weekly VaR update showing Gauntlet USD Alpha 99% VaR at -1.3bps and 31 vaults (43.7%) with price appreciation.

Season 5 Kamino incentives go live on Gauntlet USDC Prime vault.

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Holds $1.7 billion in LP deposits across 69 Morpho Labs vaults, with $1.2 billion in assets under curation.

Curates Morpho vaults via Yield on Katana as a risk curator, and integrates with ShapeShift's Earn for capital-efficient lending yields.

A delta neutral vault created by Gaunlet on JLP gave back 2 months worth of gains on the TenTen platform.

Gauntlet collaborates with Utila, Morpho Labs, and Yield to launch the first institutional stablecoin yield solution on OP Mainnet.

Launched as official vault curator on Kamino with USDC Prime and SOL Balanced lending vaults. Also launched USDC Frontier Vault on Kamino, which allocates across PRIME, Maple, and Main Markets within its Frontier curation framework.

Gauntlet onboards as a risk partner to Arch Network's Bitcoin layer ecosystem.

Gauntlet's deUSD and sdeUSD listings cause millions of bad debt on Compound, depleting Compound's treasury to cover losses.

gtUSDa stablecoin records 119% TVL growth during a challenging market week, leading all stablecoins in TVL gains among those tracked.

Gauntlet is one of the three biggest vault curators on Katana platform, alongside SteakhouseFi and Yearn Finance, and was not affected by the Balancer v2 exploit.

Gauntlet implements emergency measures to save Compound v3 USDC market from being drained by DeUSD mispricing and exchange rate oracle issue.

Gauntlet integrates USDT0 vault on Hyperliquid platform, with ARMA protocol now automatically allocating to it for optimized stablecoin yields.

Gauntlet acts as Compound's curator and operates the largest number of vaults on Morpho among all curators.

Gauntlet receives public praise for strong risk management performance that kept DeFi lenders safe during a recent market stress event this week, acknowledged alongside competitors SteakhouseFi and Chaos Labs.

Gauntlet CEO criticized for sharing internal competitor transcripts, described as unprofessional conduct that damages the company's remaining reputation and respect.

Direct competition intensifies between Gauntlet and Aave for Earn programs.

Vaults surpass $2 billion in total value locked.

Gauntlet Alpha holds 30% in stablecoins, with returns generated by Gauntlet core holdings.

Gauntlet opens two remote engineering positions: Quantitative Software Engineer at $150K-205K and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App at $165K-205K, hiring in Canada and US.

A past incident involving MEV Capital, Gauntlet, and Usual at Morpho approximately 10 months ago is referenced as a "fiasco" that created reputational risk concerns around permissionless markets.

Vaults have no exposure to Stream's xUSD, with ongoing monitoring of market conditions.

The Fiamma Bitcoin Bridge goes live on Sei with Gauntlet and Takara Lend integration in mid-October.

Yield strategies remain unaffected by the Balancer v2 pools exploit, with continued monitoring of the situation.

Gauntlet curation launches on a new Solana platform soon, with the specific platform name not yet disclosed.

Hiring announced for Quantitative Software Engineer ($150K-205K) and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App ($165K-205K), both remote positions in Canada and US.

The fourth cohort of Gauntlet AI program begins.

Gauntlet curates yield for Fluidkey's Auto-Earn through Lazy Summer Protocol with Morpho Labs, providing privacy-preserving automated yield access onchain.

Gauntlet's risk models inform market-neutral basis trade strategy for DFDV via Drift Protocol on Solana, with a technical deep dive webinar scheduled for Nov 3.

Gauntlet USDC Prime launches on Optimism's OP Mainnet with OP incentives flowing and highly liquid collateral markets for wstETH, WETH, and WBTC.

Third cohort of Gauntlet AI program begins.

Opens Protocol Strategist position at $140K-175K, adding to previously announced technical roles.

Gauntlet curates hyETH, an ETH product powered by Morpho Labs.

gtUSDa launches new Arbitrum chain integration with nearly 40% of supply allocated to Gauntlet USDC Core on Arbitrum, accessing yields across Morpho Labs, Resolv Labs, and Pendle.

Giza Tech partners with Gauntlet to allocate capital into vaults on Arbitrum as the DeAI protocol expands into the Offchain Labs ecosystem.

Opens two additional technical positions: Quantitative Software Engineer at $150K-$205K and Software Engineer for Gauntlet App at $165K-$205K, both remote (US/Canada).

ARMA integrates with Gauntlet, allocating into USDC vaults on Arbitrum for stablecoin yield optimization.

Opens hiring for Protocol Strategist position at $140K-$175K salary, available in LA, NY, SF, or remote (US/Canada).

Gauntlet Alpha offers 44% yield in USDC.

The delta-neutral vault performed as expected during Friday's volatility event with drawdowns remaining within expected bounds, while USDC borrow rates at 6.5% improve leveraged strategy conditions.

Launches a miniapp on Base network as part of quarterly developments.