Gauntlet

How Gauntlet uses the vaults.fyi API to accelerate DeFi risk research and protocol insights

Gauntlet is a leader in creating data-driven onchain yield strategies on DeFi. The team provides applied research services for clients including Coinbase, Morpho, Uniswap, Arbitrum, and NEAR. Gauntlet’s models safeguard over $42 billion in digital assets across the crypto ecosystem, driving capital efficiency and risk mitigation.

To enhance their internal research and protocol modeling efforts, Gauntlet has integrated the vaults.fyi API as a data source. This gives their team access to normalized, up-to-date data on yields across dozens of protocols and networks—without the overhead of maintaining bespoke indexers or reconciling disparate data sources.

Challenge

Gauntlet’s research and modeling efforts depend on high-quality onchain data. But aggregating yield data across protocols presents challenges:

• Data fragmentation: Yield mechanisms differ widely across protocols (e.g. supply/borrow APRs, staking rewards, real-world asset returns), making standardized comparisons difficult.

• Maintenance burden: In-house indexers are costly to maintain and require frequent updates as protocols evolve.

• Cross-chain complexity: Coverage across multiple L1s and L2s introduces additional surface area to monitor and model.

To support research into yield risk, protocol incentives, and user behavior, Gauntlet needed a unified source of yield data that could be integrated into both quantitative models and internal dashboards.

Solution

By using the vaults.fyi API, Gauntlet is able to:

• Access normalized APY data across 50+ protocols and multiple blockchain networks

• Pull historical yield trends to analyze volatility and time-based behavior

• Avoid maintenance overhead, relying on a single interface for live and historical vault data

• Incorporate comprehensive data into risk models without building custom data pipelines for each protocol

This integration helps Gauntlet focus on what it does best – building simulations and strategies for the protocols and assets it covers.

Outcome

The vaults.fyi API helps Gauntlet gather DeFi data to support its business.

As Gauntlet continues to push the frontier of DeFi economic modeling, vaults.fyi is proud to be a data partner powering this research.