Gauntlet is a quantitative risk research firm that has become one of the largest vault curators in DeFi, managing over a billion dollars across more than 60 vaults. Before entering vault curation, Gauntlet spent years as the risk management advisor for protocols like Aave, Compound, and Uniswap, building agent-based simulation models to optimize lending parameters and stress-test collateral under extreme market conditions. This deep protocol-level experience now informs how Gauntlet designs its own vaults.

Gauntlet organizes its Morpho strategies into distinct risk tiers: Prime vaults allocate to blue-chip collateral with conservative parameters, Core vaults target moderate risk with broader collateral exposure, and Frontier vaults pursue higher yields by accepting more volatile assets. The same curator running all three tiers creates a natural comparison — the APY difference between a Gauntlet Prime vault and a Gauntlet Frontier vault reflects the market price of risk as assessed by the same risk model. Gauntlet also curates vaults on Euler across Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum, including cluster vaults that combine multiple lending positions.

For yield seekers evaluating Gauntlet strategies, the tiered structure makes risk-return tradeoffs explicit: each tier name signals the curator's own risk assessment.

Earnbase tracks 37 strategies curated by Gauntlet across Euler and Morpho.