Building the Future: ASICs, Risk, and the Rise of Gauntlet
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Building the Future: ASICs, Risk, and the Rise of Gauntlet
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In S2E4 of CDPod, Yuga and Erik sit down with Tarun Chitra, CEO & co-founder of Gauntlet.They dig into the hardware roots of crypto, how to model DeFi risk, and why demand (not hype) drives the next wave of onchain innovation.Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:34 - Early career: ASICs, HFT & D. E. Shaw
04:10 - $25M ASIC fab escrow front-run
07:42 - HFT & Bitcoin mining parallels
10:05 - AI cycles and getting into crypto
15:00 - Proof-of-stake as a derivative asset
19:01 - How DeFi unbundles exchange functions
22:03 - Modeling DeFi systems & Pendle
27:30 - TradFi credit vs onchain credit
28:40 - Continuous-time trading of credit onchain
35:43 - Demand-driven DeFi innovation cycles
41:51 - Zero-sum staking vs risk transfer
43:20 - Tooling suggestion: Smart order routing for onchain yield
46:20 - Guest recommendation
47:49 - Closing