Gauntlet Networks, a firm specializing in digital asset risk and optimization, has secured $125 million in a Series C funding round aimed at accelerating its global expansion and technological development. The company provides curated yield opportunities for capital allocators, financial institutions, FinTech firms, and stablecoin issuers, enabling them to deploy capital efficiently on blockchain networks.
Since its inception in 2018, Gauntlet has established integrations with over 150 FinTechs and institutions, managing more than $1.5 billion in assets across its vault platforms. The new investment will support scaling its infrastructure to integrate further with traditional capital markets, growing its international workforce, and launching new onchain financial products.
Gauntlet’s approach centers on vaults as a transformative tool in finance, likening their potential to the impact ETFs had on broadening equity market participation. The firm aims to accelerate the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) markets by leveraging tokenization and vault structures to attract larger capital flows. This strategy aligns with broader trends as global finance increases its onchain footprint.
The Series C round was led by SBI Holdings via its U.S. arm, SBI Holdings USA, which will aid Gauntlet in scaling its services across Asia and beyond. SBI’s leadership highlighted Gauntlet’s advanced risk management technology as critical to advancing digital asset adoption, particularly as regulatory frameworks in key markets like the U.S. evolve with legislation such as the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act.
Previously, Gauntlet raised $23.8 million in early 2022 during a Series B round that valued the company at $1 billion. Recently, it expanded access to its risk-tiered curated vaults on the Morpho protocol by integrating with Elwood, an institutional platform facilitating continuous markets worldwide.