# Gauntlet

[Gauntlet](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/) 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.

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### 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 multiple protocols and 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

vaults.fyi 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.<br>