Founded in 2018, Gauntlet is an industry-leading quantitative research firm specializing in treasury & risk management, incentive optimization, and mechanism design. Today, it protects over $35B in assets with insights derived from 380B predictive data points, backed by more than 30 published research papers. We believe DeFi can reshape global finance, and we support our customers by actively participating as partners in DAO governance to ensure that potential is realized in a risk-adjusted, sustainable manner.

As your delegate, Gauntlet will:

• Champion Responsible Ecosystem Growth: Focus on long-term resilience, capital efficiency, and community-driven innovation.
• Drive Informed Governance: Combine real-time risk monitoring with industry-leading research to back our votes with data-driven insights and fortify protocol resilience.
• Protect Against Malicious Actors: Proactively guard against manipulation, bad actors, and threat vectors through vigilant oversight and consistent engagement.

Gauntlet’s Conflict of Interest Disclosures

Gauntlet works with various protocols in the blockchain ecosystem and is currently an active delegate at Uniswap, Optimism, Arbitrum, Compound, EigenLayer, Morpho, and Jito.

Gauntlet incubated Aera Finance, a treasury management protocol that addresses existing shortcomings in treasury management by creating vaults that allow you to set and forget your treasury strategies.