Gauntlet

• Name: Gauntlet
• URL: https://www.gauntlet.xyz/
• Category: DeFi risk management / vault curation / yield infrastructure platform
• Summary: Gauntlet is not just a risk-advice shop anymore. The current surface is managed allocator infrastructure: curated vaults, SDK and API access, user-position data, fee and attribution plumbing, and operator judgment packaged into a product that can become the default route for depositor capital.
• What it does:
  • Offers a developer kit with SDK, API, developer portal, and contract references for integrating Gauntlet-managed vaults into applications
  • Curates and operates yield vaults with explicit risk tiers, market selection criteria, and exposure controls across multiple chains
  • Provides vault discovery, deposits, withdrawals, user-position tracking, returns data, and event analytics via API and SDK surfaces
  • Uses Aera V3 vault infrastructure under the hood for custody, hook validation, provisioner flows, fee accounting, and guardian-managed execution
  • Publishes docs, contract references, llms.txt, and an OpenAPI spec that expose a fairly operational product surface rather than only research or governance commentary
• Key claims:
  • Official onboarding docs say “The Gauntlet Developer Kit is the easiest way to integrate with DeFi yield” and position the product as a single SDK/API for curated vault access
  • Docs describe Gauntlet Vaults as “institutional-grade yield strategies curated by Gauntlet across DeFi protocols and chains,” with SDK, API, and developer portal layers above them
  • Security docs say Aera, a Gauntlet product, uses audited smart contracts, constrained roles, and onchain enforcement, while Gauntlet contributes real-time monitoring and curation methodology
  • Curation docs show Gauntlet explicitly evaluating smart-contract risk, liquidity risk, oracle risk, counterparty risk, and market parameters before including markets in vault allocation sets
  • The public OpenAPI spec shows Gauntlet shipping production endpoints for health, chain sync, vault data, user positions, returns, and event analytics, which is a strong signal that it operates as a real integration platform
• Whitepaper: No classic standalone whitepaper or litepaper was found during this pass. The strongest primary materials were Gauntlet’s official docs, llms.txt index, security and curation pages, Aera V3 integration docs, and public OpenAPI spec; see ../whitepapers/gauntlet-primary-sources-2026-04-25.md.
• Sources:
  • https://www.gauntlet.xyz/
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/llms.txt
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/guides/concepts/security
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/guides/concepts/curation
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/guides/concepts/supported-protocols/aera-v3/overview
  • https://docs.gauntlet.xyz/openapi.json

Internal linkages

• Substrate beneath the managed product: aera.

• Strongest risk-provider contrast: chaos-labs.

• Keep the note on curated allocator judgment, default market selection, and distribution power rather than every vault venue it can route into.

• Last reviewed: 2026-05-30 UTC