DeFi Analyst

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. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research. As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — 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.\n\nOur 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.\n\nWe’re seeking a DeFi Analyst who can quantify, contextualize, and communicate key market dynamics to our clients, partners, and community. This hybrid role blends on-chain data analysis, market research, and content creation—ideal for someone who lives and breathes DeFi, has strong analytical skills, and can turn data into compelling narratives.\n\nIf you’re a crypto-native researcher, DeFi trader, or content writer who has shipped content and analysis at a top protocol and written and spoken publicly about market conditions with a quantitative approach, this role is made for you. We welcome someone looking to expand their personal brand alongside Gauntlet to further DeFi.\n\nYou will analyze and report on market events with a quantitative lens. Conduct on-chain and offchain data analysis, write research (short and longform) on our products, competitors, and market conditions for both external and internal intel, and contribute to our marketing channels and comms. This includes market commentary for our newsletter, analysis of crypto/finance media inquiries, and serving as a public voice.\n\nYou will manage our DeFi analyst partner program to help curate, highlight, and expand the breadth of analysis from the researcher community about Gauntlet’s products and services. You’ll leverage your storytelling skills to create data visualizations that help everyone, from institutional capital allocators to consumers, about our offerings.\n\nYou’re capable of code-switching at the speed of on-chain narratives. This role will be responsible for expanding the Gauntlet brand through data-driven storytelling and reports to the Head of Marketing with a dotted line/mentorship to the data science team.