Gauntlet vs Valantis

Gauntlet is a financial risk management and protocol optimization platform that uses agent-based market simulations to stress-test DeFi protocols and optimize their economic parameters. As protocols in the Hyperliquid ecosystem scale their TVL in lending markets and liquidity vaults, Gauntlet's simulation engine models adversarial behaviors, market crashes, and oracle manipulation scenarios to identify parameter configurations that maximize capital efficiency while minimizing insolvency risk. Gauntlet provides ongoing risk management services—continuously updating protocol parameters like liquidation bonuses, borrow caps, and collateral ratios in response to changing market conditions. With a track record managing billions in risk across Aave, Compound, and other top DeFi protocols, Gauntlet brings institutional-grade risk science to the growing Hyperliquid DeFi ecosystem. Protocols that engage Gauntlet signal commitment to sustainable, risk-managed growth rather than aggressive TVL maximization at the expense of security.

Valantis

Valantis is a modular decentralized exchange protocol deployed on HyperEVM, designed to give liquidity providers and protocol developers unprecedented flexibility in how AMMs are constructed and customized. At its core is STEX — a next-generation AMM architecture purpose-built for liquid staking token pools, solving the persistent problem of capital inefficiency and high slippage that plagues standard AMMs when handling correlated or yield-bearing assets. Valantis separates exchange logic into composable modules: sovereign pools, HOT (Hybrid Order Type) AMMs, and pluggable liquidity management strategies — allowing developers to integrate custom pricing curves, fee tiers, and rebalancing logic without forking the entire protocol stack. For liquidity providers, this means substantially better capital efficiency and reduced impermanent loss on correlated pairs. For protocols building on HyperEVM, it means a flexible DEX infrastructure layer that can be tailored to specific tokenomics and use cases. Valantis fits naturally into the Hyperliquid ecosystem by providing foundational trading infrastructure that DeFi primitives — lending markets, derivatives vaults, and yield protocols — depend on for deep, efficient, and programmable liquidity.

Choose Gauntlet if you...

• ✓Want a analytics & data solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Need: Financial risk modeling and protocol optimization for DeFi protocols on HyperEVM

Choose Valantis if you...

• ✓Want a decentralized exchanges solution on HyperEVM
• ✓Prefer a verified and vetted protocol
• ✓Need features like DEX and modular
• ✓Need: Modular DEX with LST-optimized pools — acquired StakedHYPE