# Gauntlet for DeFi Builders

## Innovators compound value, together

The most prolific protocols, teams, and innovators in crypto work with Gauntlet. These teams make up the majority market share of DeFi (or soon will, we work with the best).

The results of our risk management, growth optimization, and advisory services are reflected onchain by our client’s total value locked (TVL) growth over nearly a decade. Few partners in crypto have been in the space since before DeFi was a commonly used term. We've been here since 2018.

Our vault partners on the supply and demand sides alike work with us because they plan for the long term. Only the best pass our due diligence. Our Applied Research team helps protocols exceed expectations from before day one through hyperscaling.

[Explore vaults](https://app.gauntlet.xyz/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=builders-page&utm_campaign=app) [Speak to our team](https://9pczr1lapod.typeform.com/to/hCKUOFHo?typeform-source=www.gauntlet.xyz)

## Our Partners

Our clients and vault partners work with us because they know we have advised, curated, and delivered alpha through crypto’s bull and bear cycles alike.

### $35B+
- TVL under advisory through Gauntlet Applied Research (GAR)

### 5+
- Strategies across lending, levered RWA's, levered ETH staking, & perpetual futures

## From Our Clients
### Builders that partner with us exceed expectations

**Joseph**  
Nerite, Solarpunk VC  
[Gauntlet](https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/1877940420786770187) is basically providing the kind of brutal risk management services that are needed to bring another $1T of capital into DeFi. We need more: risk managers, quants... This is how we win.

**Dennis Dinkelmeyer**  
Founder, Midas RWA  
(on Gauntlet TVL crossing $500M)  
With the commitment, integrity and work ethic of the team at [@gauntlet_xyz](https://x.com/DDinkelmeyer/status/1865366688004235291), I am not surprised.

## What We Offer
### Optimize the path to protocol growth

The most crypto-obsessed quantitative minds in DeFi

Our team of researchers and data scientists bring experience from the most impactful organizations in crypto, tech, and trading firms.

Applied research through market cycles

We have served the top DeFi primitives and most impactful protocols in DeFi, often before they were well-known or hit all-time-highs. We have led DeFi risk management since 2018, before the term DeFi was commonly used.

Experience across the DeFi stack

Our expertise spans across ecosystems. Our clients benefit from these cross-functional insights. We have experts that work across verticals.

These include Automated Market Makers (AMMs), Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, staking, liquid staking, and restaking protocols, stablecoins, lending/collateralized debt position (CDP) protocols, centralized and decentralized exchanges and trading venues, and perpetual futures.

## Discover
### Recent contributions and developments

- **Gauntlet Vaults on Morpho Power Uniswap Earn**  
Yield on USDC, USDT, and ETH, curated by Gauntlet and built directly into the Uniswap web app and wallet.  
[Read More](/content/resources/gauntlet-vaults-on-morpho-power-uniswap-earn/index.html)

- **Gauntlet Launches USDC and Bitcoin Earn Vaults on Morph with Bitget and Bitget Wallet**  
Gauntlet Launches USDC and Bitcoin Earn Vaults on Morph with Bitget and Bitget Wallet  
[Read More](/content/resources/gauntlet-launches-usdc-and-bitcoin-earn-vaults-on-morph-with-bitget-and-bitget-wallet/index.html)

- **Gauntlet USD Alpha Powers Liquid Earn**  
Liquid users can earn stablecoin yield on idle trading collateral through Liquid Earn, powered by Gauntlet USD Alpha  
[Read More](/content/resources/gauntlet-usd-alpha-powers-liquid-earn/index.html)