Introducing Gauntlet Affiliate

Give your users yield.  Share in the upside.

Gauntlet vaults provide your users with yield on their stablecoins, BTC, ETH, SOL, and more. You earn rewards when they allocate TVL. Power your earn program. Retain and grow your best users. Leave no balance idle.

Loyalty is earned and we believe it goes both ways. Now available for builders across fintech.

Follow the smart money

$1.8+ billion in TVL, 150+ integrations, and tens of thousands of users must know something.

Choose from Gauntlet Strategies across chains, protocols, and asset types to best fit your users, community, readers, or fan base. Align your yield offering with their needs. Integrate via our developer SDKs and APIs or work with our integration partners.

Earn up to double-digit basis points on an annualized basis in rewards. Get support from the most vigilant quants in crypto since 2018 and pave the way to a partnership that scales with you as you grow.

How it works

Get turnkey yield from the minds of DeFi gigabrains straight to your user's wallets.

Our program is designed for efficiency and transparency.

1. Apply
   Share more about your protocol, app, or platform and use case. We're interested in working with you no matter what stage of the journey you're on.

2. Sign and set up
   We review terms with you, set up tracking and attribution, and help you integrate directly or via our partners.

3. Launch and earn
   We help support your GTM motion, advise on your yield offering as you grow TVL, and help highlight your project. We work with you to build a commercial partnership that scales.

You can partner with everyone, or offer only the best to your users.

Join our exclusive network of partners and start earning rewards for referring TVL to Gauntlet.

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 clear, achievable performance tiers, ensuring you are compensated for your continued success. Specific reward tiers will be outlined in your partnership agreement.

Why partner with Gauntlet? Why partner with anyone else?

Our edge in markets is now yours

• Turnkey setup
  Sign up and earn up to double-digit basis points on TVL you source. We work with you to set up tracking and attribution. Integrate with Gauntlet's developer SDK and APIs.

• Earn right away
  As long as your referred TVL stays in a vault, you earn a share of the upside with quarterly settlement.

• Get GTM support
  The quants are on the line: count on us to amplify your go-to-market motion and partner in your growth.

• Offer premier yield
  Pick from our Morpho vaults or Gauntlet Strategies like USD Alpha and Bitcoin Yield; the best risk-adjusted yields in DeFi.

Integrate vaults from DeFi's premier risk manager.

Consumer financial services platforms

Stablecoin yields offer an attractive alternative to offchain options and help you retain idle funds and the users that hold them.

B2B payments, payroll, cards, and more

Stablecoin-powered businesses ensure DeFi utility from day one without sacrificing on UX or adding complexity by offering earn programs backed by our vaults across chains and protocols.

AI agents/LLMs protocols, platforms, prediction markets, perps, and more

We work with a variety of smart wallet and integration partners to offer you a variety of ways to add one or many yield opportunities directly in your app or on your platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Are there specific content guidelines I need to follow?
  Yes. To ensure brand consistency and compliance, we provide all partners with a comprehensive set of content and messaging guidelines.

• Are existing vault suppliers eligible to be referred?
  Yes, contact us to discuss your specific circumstances.

• How are my rewards paid out?
  Quarterly. We work with you to establish tracking and attribution as well as preferred payout method: onchain or offchain.

• When do rewards start?
  As long as referred TVL is in a Gauntlet vault, it earns starting right away. We track time-in-vault as part of the settlement process.

About Gauntlet

Gauntlet equips investors, builders, and token issuers with data-driven strategies to confidently allocate over $1.8 billion onchain. Trusted by top protocols and institutions, Gauntlet uses quantitative simulation models to optimize yields and manage risk in complex onchain environments.

Leveraging seven years of cryptoeconomic research and analysis, Gauntlet builds protocol and yield optimization strategies working with leaders across the crypto ecosystem, including Coinbase, Morpho, Uniswap, Arbitrum, and NEAR. Gauntlet's models have safeguarded over $42 billion in digital assets across the crypto ecosystem, driving capital efficiency and mitigating risk.

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.