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
- MEV: Fractalization of Block Building
- Why Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Less Crypto Regulation: The Chopping Block
- Did Blur Cause a Decline in the NFT Market? The Chopping Block - Ep. 567
- The Chopping Block: Are We Back? The 'Low IQ' Response to the Potential Spot Bitcoin ETF - Ep. 561
- The Chopping Block: SBF’s Rough Week, DCG Faces a Lawsuit, UniSwap’s Fees
- Is Sam Bankman-Fried a ‘Criminal Sociopath’? - The Chopping Block
- The Chopping Block: Did Michael Lewis Get Swindled by SBF? - Ep. 552
- The Chopping Block: Which DeFi Metrics Are Useful in a Bear Market?
- ZK10: ZK Mechanism Design: How privacy can change user guarantees - Tarun Chitra
- Episode 292 - State of ZK - Live at zkSummit10!
- Fireside Chat with Tarun Chitra and Robert Leshner
- The Future of ZK Applications
- The Chopping Block: Why Circle’s Jeremy Allaire Is So Optimistic About Stablecoins' Future - Ep. 541
- Episode 291 - MEV, Mechanism Design & the Censorship Problem with Mallesh M Pai
- The Chopping Block: Why the U.S. Is Going After Crypto So Aggressively
- The Chopping Block: All About That Base With Jesse Pollak
- The Chopping Block: Beware of ‘Zombie’ Crypto Exchanges - Ep. 532
- The Chopping Block: Why You Should Care About PayPal’s PYUSD - Ep. 529
- The Chopping Block: Who’s to Blame for the Curve Hack? - Ep. 526
- The Chopping Block: Why Worldcoin Could Be ‘FTT for Eyeballs’ - Ep 523
- Episode 286 - Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun
- Episode 285 - Intents with Chris Goes from Anoma
- The Chopping Block: Should XRP Holders Really Be Rejoicing? - Ep. 519
- DeFi Security Summit 2023: Day 1, 15 July