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

• Economic Risks Panel
• The Chopping Block: Why It’s Suddenly RWA Szn
• The Chopping Block: Why the Azuki Elementals Drop Was a Big Flop - Ep. 512
• The Chopping Block: Bitcoin’s BlackRock Bounce
• The Chopping Block: Why Uniswap V4 Has a Bigger Attack Surface Area
• The Chopping Block: Has the SEC Lost Credibility?
• The Chopping Block: Explain Rollups to Me Like I’m 5
• The Chopping Block: Why Everyone Is Talking About EigenLayer - Ep. 497
• The Chopping Block: Why Aragon Association Members Have 'Fat Salaries'
• Yudkowsky vs. Plato: can language models possess knowledge?
• The Chopping Block: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s? - Ep. 487
• The Chopping Block: Are L2s Stealing ETH’s Thunder? - Ep. 484
• The Chopping Block: Is Ether the Only ‘Organic Yield’ in Crypto? - Ep. 477
• Shining A Light On MEV | Tarun Chitra, Justin Drake
• The Chopping Block: Is This the Beginning of the End for Binance? - Ep. 474
• The Chopping Block: Why AI Will Change the Course of History in Crypto
• Episode 269: Auctions with Kshitij Kulkarni, Matheus V. X. Ferreira and Tarun
• The Chopping Block: Was Crypto Just Debanked? - Ep. 468
• The Chopping Block: Arthur Hayes on Why Crypto Needs to Ditch the Banks - Ep. 466
• The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463
• The Chopping Block: The Inside Story of How Blur Toppled NFT Giant OpenSea - Ep. 459
• Episode 265: Where ZK and ML intersect with Yi Sun and Daniel Kang
• The Chopping Block: The SEC Is Attacking Crypto – Will Gary Gensler Succeed?
• The Chopping Block: Why Canto, Up Nearly 500% This Month, Has Its Haters - Ep. 452