Integrations & Partnerships
Our existing institutional integrations and collaborations.
Gauntlet Vaults are integrated with several fintechs, centralized exchanges, and wallets across multiple jurisdictions. Our processes account for local compliance, reporting, and technical requirements. We also partner with Institutions and fintechs on several other initiatives.
We partner with leading institutions worldwide to integrate Gauntlet vaults, delivering institutional-grade yields directly to their users.
Below, we outline some of our institutional integrations.
Fintechs
Wirex Business
Vault integration: Gauntlet USDC Prime on Base
Description: Wirex integrated Gauntlet-curated vaults into its business accounts, enabling an industry-first experience where businesses can earn sustainable, institutional-grade stablecoin yield with a single click. USD and EUR balances held in Wirex Business accounts are seamlessly converted to USDC and deposited into Gauntlet’s USDC Prime vault on Morpho’s Base deployment. The non-custodial structure allows users to retain full control of their assets while earning yield until the moment they spend, with no lockups and immediate liquidity.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet curates and manages the USDC Prime strategy powering Wirex’s yield product, providing ongoing risk assessment, strategy calibration, and liquidity oversight to ensure Wirex’s requirements for security, transparency, and sustainable yield are consistently met. Prime vaults allocate to high-liquidity, blue-chip lending markets, primarily those backed by ETH- and BTC-denominated collateral, and are supported by Gauntlet’s 24/7 utilization monitoring, stress-testing, and dynamic parameter optimization.
KAST
Vault integration: Gauntlet USD Alpha on Aera
Description: KAST chose Gauntlet USD Alpha, our flagship stablecoin yield vault built on Aera, to power its new KAST Earn product. Gauntlet USD Alpha balances capital preservation with sustainable yield for 500K KAST users worldwide. KAST Earn is part of a robust product suite that includes the KAST stablecoin credit card and local fiat on- and off-ramp integrations
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet curates and manages the gtUSDa strategy, powering KAST Earn, providing ongoing risk assessment, strategy calibration, and liquidity oversight to ensure KAST's requirements for security, transparency, and sustainable yield are met. The strategy taps into select variable and fixed yield opportunities on protocols like Morpho and Pendle across Ethereum mainnet and L2s like Base, Optimism, and Arbitrum. Users pay no gas fees when the strategy rebalances and protocol rewards are autoredeemed and compounded back into the strategy, no manual claims required.
SCRYPT Swiss
Vault integrations: Various Gauntlet Vaults
Description: SCRYPT, licensed as a Portfolio Manager under FINMA, partners with Gauntlet to offer regulated, risk-managed DeFi vault strategies to professional and institutional investors across Europe. Gauntlet's onchain vault strategies are made available through SCRYPT's Swiss-regulated portfolio management structure, bridging the gap between traditional finance standards and DeFi innovation.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet develops, deploys, and oversees the vault strategies offered through SCRYPT, applying its quantitative risk models and 24/7 monitoring to ensure strategies consistently meet the performance and safety requirements of SCRYPT's institutional client base, including banks, funds, and asset managers.
Swissborg
Vault integrations: Custom SwissBorg Vault on Morpho
Description: Gauntlet partners with SwissBorg, one of Europe’s leading fintech platforms for crypto, to offer curated Morpho vaults through SwissBorg’s Earn program. This engagement involves custom vault selection and dynamic risk management to align with SwissBorg’s internal risk frameworks, operational standards, and evolving regulatory expectations, including compliance with MiCA requirements in the EU.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet provides detailed reporting on vault performance, market conditions, and risk parameter adjustments to support SwissBorg’s enterprise compliance and audit processes. Technical integration includes customized monitoring and alerting to ensure uptime, responsiveness, and reliability consistent with SwissBorg’s platform requirements. Gauntlet maintains an ongoing feedback loop with SwissBorg’s risk, compliance, and operations teams to continually adapt vault curation and risk strategies as regulatory, market, or product needs evolve.
Custodians
Anchorage Digital
Vault integrations: Gauntlet USDC Prime, USDT Frontier, USDT Prime, WETH Prime, WETH Balanced on Mainnet
Description: Anchorage Digital integrated Gauntlet-curated vaults into its platform via Anchorage's Morpho integration, unlocking DeFi yield for institutional clients. Anchorage users can access Gauntlet USDC, USDT, and WETH vaults directly through the platform, without leaving their custodial environment. The integration reflects a shared belief that security and trust, the core of every custodial relationship, should extend seamlessly into DeFi access.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet curates and manages the USDC, USDT, and WETH vault strategies available through Anchorage, providing continuous risk monitoring and dynamic parameter optimization to ensure performance and security align with the standards Anchorage's institutional custody clients expect.
Exchanges
Binance and OKX
Vault integrations: Various stablecoin vaults
Description: Morpho collaborates with Binance to offer Gauntlet-curated vaults through respective Earn programs for their users. This collaboration enables their users to access Morpho’s onchain lending opportunities directly via their platforms, with Gauntlet providing risk-optimized vault curation.
Gauntlet's work: As part of this collaboration, Gauntlet selects and manages the vaults based on dynamic market conditions, targeting a balance between yield generation and risk mitigation. This provides a streamlined way for Binance and OKX users to access yield without leaving their respective ecosystems, while leveraging Gauntlet’s expertise in risk management and protocol optimization.
Coinbase cbBTC Lending Market
Description: Gauntlet collaborates with Coinbase to support the launch and ongoing risk management of cbBTC lending markets on Morpho, enabling Coinbase users to borrow USDC against their Bitcoin holdings without selling their assets. In this integration, users’ Bitcoin is converted into Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC) on a 1:1 basis, which is then supplied as collateral to Morpho’s smart contracts operating on Coinbase’s Base L2 network.
To support Coinbase’s mission to go to market with a novel asset, Coinbase required an onchain partner to ensure that the asset launch was structured properly for DeFi users and venues. The collaboration aims to offer a secure and transparent borrowing experience, integrating DeFi with Coinbase’s retail exchange.
Gauntlet work: Gauntlet provides continuous risk modeling and optimization for these markets, ensuring that lending parameters align with Coinbase’s for capital efficiency and market stability. This includes dynamic adjustments to liquidity allocations, supply caps, and liquidation thresholds based on real-time market conditions. By leveraging Gauntlet’s expertise in protocol optimization and risk management, the cbBTC lending markets are designed to meet the compliance and operational requirements required by Coinbase.
Bitpanda
Vault integrations: Gauntlet USDT, USDC, EURC, and WETH vaults on Mainnet, and USDC, WETH, and LBTC Balanced vaults on Base
Description: Bitpanda integrated seven Gauntlet vaults into its DeFi Wallet, providing users with simplified access to risk-adjusted DeFi yields across Ethereum and Base while retaining control of their funds. Bitpanda DeFi Wallet users can add supply to Gauntlet-curated USDT, USDC, EURC, and WETH Balanced vaults on Mainnet and USDC, WETH, and LBTC Balanced vaults on Base.
Gauntlet's work: As part of this partnership, Gauntlet selects and curates the vaults using battle-tested models informed by market conditions to target a balance between yield generation and risk mitigation. This provides a streamlined way for Bitpanda DeFi Wallet users to access yield without leaving the app, while leveraging Gauntlet’s expertise in risk management and yield optimization.
Gemini
Vault integrations: Gauntlet USDC Balanced and USDC Prime on Arbitrum.
Description: Gemini integrated Gauntlet-curated vaults into its new Onchain Hub, giving Gemini users streamlined, non-custodial access to DeFi yield. At launch, users can supply USDC into Gauntlet USDC Balanced and Gauntlet USDC Prime on Morpho (Arbitrum). These strategies are surfaced directly in Gemini’s interface and governed by Gauntlet’s quantitative risk framework.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet selects and manages the integrated USDC Balanced and Prime vaults using battle-tested models and continuous risk monitoring to target the best risk-aware opportunities while preserving user control of funds (users can withdraw anytime).
Coinbase Verified Pools
Description: Coinbase selected Gauntlet as their quantitative optimization partner to support the launch of Verified Pools, a KYC-verified, non-custodial liquidity solution built on Coinbase’s Base L2 and Uniswap v4. This collaboration facilitates a secure and transparent trading environment for both retail and institutional users, integrating identity verification with DeFi protocols.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet provides active risk modeling and optimization services to ensure pool configurations meet institutional standards for capital efficiency and market health. This includes pre-launch research and mechanism guidance to inform the product launch, dynamic adjustments to liquidity parameters, and ongoing monitoring to align with Coinbase’s compliance and operational requirements. Coinbase receives active reporting, custom use case analysis, and live tooling built specifically for goals associated with Verified Pools.
Wallets
Phantom
Description: Gauntlet serves as the exclusive curator for CASH, a fiat-backed, USD-pegged stablecoin designed by Phantom and issued by Bridge through Stripe's Open Issuance platform. Starting with the CASH Earn vault on Kamino, users can supply CASH via several interfaces to earn yield on Phantom’s stablecoin.
Gauntlet’s work: Gauntlet selects the markets that CASH is allocated to in this vault. We manage liquidity allocation across these markets and ensure we are 1) protecting user funds at all times and 2) optimizing for the best risk-adjusted APY. In addition to curation, we also work with Phantom on writing and adjusting interest rate curves to ensure healthy utilization as the program scales.
Trust Wallet
Vault integrations: Gauntlet USDC Frontier and Balanced on Mainnet
Description: We collaborate with Trust Wallet to provide their users with access to Gauntlet-curated Morpho vaults through an Earn program. This collaboration enables their users to access Morpho’s onchain lending opportunities directly via the Trust Wallet platform as their flagship Earn Program for USDC, with Gauntlet providing risk-optimized vault curation.
Gauntlet's work: As part of this collaboration, Gauntlet selects and curates the vaults using battle-tested models informed by market conditions to target a balance between yield generation and risk mitigation. This provides a streamlined way for Trust Wallet users to access yield without leaving the app, while leveraging Gauntlet’s expertise in risk management and yield optimization.
Utila
Description: Utila partnered with Gauntlet, Optimism, Morpho, and Yield.xyz to launch an institutional stablecoin yield solution offering direct vault access via their enterprise MPC wallet platform. Their institutional customers can now earn yield on USDC holdings via Utila’s solution, maintaining their traditional standards around security and compliance.
Gauntlet's work: Gauntlet curates the yield strategy, sets parameters, and monitors performance. We work closely with Utila and its partners to ensure that their requirements are consistently met and upheld.
Additional Collaborations
In addition to the case studies shared, Gauntlet actively collaborates with or has collaborated with companies such as Circle, Securitize, Moody’s Analytics, S&P Global, Bitwise Asset Management, and others.
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