DeFi Analyst

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August 5

🏄 California – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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💵 $165k - $205k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏦 DeFi

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Gauntlet

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Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Gauntlet is a company that specializes in economic modeling for the cryptocurrency space, primarily focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. It provides full-service economic risk management, infrastructure advisory, and applied research to optimize economic incentives and drive sustainable growth for crypto protocols, chains, and onchain treasuries. Gauntlet leverages extensive data modeling and quantitative optimization techniques to protect over $35 billion in assets and mitigate risks associated with DeFi. The company is committed to advancing its methodologies and providing robust experience and service to the DeFi community.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. • We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. • As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. • Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institutions — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. • We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City. • Our mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. • The unique challenges of decentralized systems call for innovative approaches in mechanism design, smart contract development, and financial product utilization. • Gauntlet leads in advancing this knowledge, ensuring safe progression through the evolving landscape of financial innovation.

🎯 Requirements

• 1-3 yrs in crypto-native research, strategy, or trading seat with evidence of directing capital into third-party incentive programs. • Comfort reading Solidity/Vyper, but you’re not the auditor of record. • Fluency with on-chain data tools (Dune, Subgraphs) and Python or JS for ad-hoc analysis. • Track record of shaping deals or product decisions through crisp memos—think equity-research write-ups or growth-analytics briefs. • Strong personal interest in DeFi, with a proactive mindset and continuous drive to stay at the forefront of protocol developments, yield opportunities, and strategic differentiation. • Common Sense and Competitive

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN! • Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees • Laptop provided • $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining • $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses • Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data • Unlimited vacation policy • 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks • Fertility benefits