Tarun Chitra
Tarun Chitra is the co-founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation and risk management platform for crypto networks and DeFi protocols that he founded in 2018 and has since grown into a leading onchain vault curator. He is also co-founder and partner at Robot Ventures, an early-stage crypto venture firm, and a regular co-host on The Chopping Block roundtable and the Zero Knowledge Podcast. Before crypto he worked at D. E. Shaw Research and in high-frequency trading at Vatic Labs, after studying mathematics and applied engineering physics at Cornell University. He has co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed papers on crypto and DeFi economics, including influential research on the security of Uniswap and Compound.
270 talks by Tarun Chitra
- Episode 371 - How ZK inspired AI Watermarking with Miranda Christ
- Pump, Perps, and Policy: Crypto’s Multi-Front Bull Market - The Chopping Block
- Tarun Chitra: How To Optimize AI (And My Crypto Thoughts)
- Episode 365 - ZK in Sui & zkAt with Kostas Kryptos
- The Role of DeFi Risk Curators | Adrian & Tarun | S9 E5
- Did TradFi Just Hijack Crypto? The Suit-ification of Stablecoins – The Chopping Block
- Should Crypto Kill Foundations? A Legal Shakeup - The Chopping Block
- Decentralization Used to Mean Something. Now It’s Just a Vibe. - The Chopping Block
- How To Bring TradFi Onchain
- Why Apollo Created Their Onchain Credit Fund | Christine Moy, Carlos Domingo & Tarun Chitra
- Ethereum Gave Away Too Much for Too Long. Will Its Pivot Be Enough?
- Tokenization: Rebuilding Global Finance Onchain
- What Went Wrong with Crypto AI Agents (and what's coming next) - Tarun Chitra & Wei Dai
- The Content Coin Disaster No One Wants to Admit - The Chopping Block
- Exchange War Erupts: Hyperliquid vs. Binance & OKX - The Chopping Block
- Ethereum Reckoning & AI Take Over - The Chopping Block
- Trump’s Trade War, Bitcoin Reserve & Market Chaos - The Chopping Block
- Crypto Strategic Reserve and Crypto Leaders Dunking on Trump - The Chopping Block
- ETH Denver & EF Silviculture Society - The Chopping Block
- Episode 350 - ZK in Solana with Mert Mumtaz
- Crypto Circus Never Ends: Hacks, Grifts, and Kanye’s Coin?
- Trump vs. The Fed! What This Means For Markets
- Dave Portnoy vs. Jim Cramer: Battle of Bad Financial Advice - The Chopping Block
- The LA Vape Cabal vs. Millennials - The Chopping Block