Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a platform offering financial modeling and simulation tools for the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) sector. It focuses on optimizing protocols, managing risks, and enhancing overall economic efficiency through quantitative finance techniques and data-driven insights.
Gauntlet serves a wide range of clients within the DeFi ecosystem, including protocols, DAOs, and traditional financial institutions, helping them navigate economic complexities and achieve sustainable growth.
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AAVE
Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where people can lend out their assets to earn interest, or borrow various cryptocurrencies against their deposited collateral. The protocol has a native token AAVE, which is used by its community to make collective decisions on the direction of the protocol.
Balancer
Balancer is a multi-token automated market maker (AMM) that functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio protocol. Balancer is built on the Ethereum network. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools and earn trading fees. Compared to a typical constant product AMM model, Balancer uses a generalization formula that could be adjusted to any number of tokens at any amount of weightage.
Compound
Compound is a decentralized autonomous interest rate protocol. It allows people to lend and borrow their cryptocurrencies, and establishes money markets by algorithmically setting interest rates based on supply and demand of various assets. Its native token is COMP, allowing holders to propose and vote on changes made to the protocol.
Maker
Maker is a decentralized lending platform that allows people to lock in their crypto collateral in exchange for DAI, a decentralized stablecoin whose price target is pegged to $1. The protocol's native token used for governance is MKR.
Sushi
Sushi is a decentralized exchange protocol. While originally launching as a Uniswap fork, the project's community has since developed a wide range of features that make use of decentralized liquidity pools. The protocol's native token, SUSHI, can be staked in order to claim a part of the protocol's fees.
Liquity
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
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Coinbase
Coinbase is the most trusted cryptocurrency platform, and an ideal starting point if you're new to crypto. They started in 2012 with the idea that anyone, anywhere, should be able to easily and securely send and receive Bitcoin. Today, they offer a trusted and easy-to-use platform for accessing the broader cryptoeconomy. [When you deposit on a centralised exchange you receive an IOU for your tokens, which shows up as your wallet balance. When your tokens are held on a centralised exchange, you don't physically own them – the exchange does, and you may lose them]
Paradigm
Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and continue supporting our portfolio companies over time.
Robot Ventures
Investing in exceptional fintech/blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.
Standard Crypto
Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm focusing on the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. They partner with entrepreneurs and communities to build the future of the internet, marketplaces, and money through blockchain technology. With a belief in the transformative power of crypto and a long-term perspective, Standard Crypto supports projects from their earliest stages, bringing deep technical expertise and a hands-on approach to company building in the crypto ecosystem.
