SCRYPT, a Swiss-licensed institutional crypto partner for trading, custody, and investment access, has partnered with Gauntlet, a provider of quantitative risk and optimization models for DeFi, to provide institutional access to transparent and risk-managed DeFi strategies at scale.
DeFi has become one of the most active and liquid markets globally, with total value locked reaching $103.8 billion on Feb. 2, according to DefiLlama. Despite this scale, institutional investors have had limited access, constrained by regulatory uncertainty, lack of deep expertise, fragmented infrastructure, and opaque risk frameworks.
This partnership directly addresses that gap. SCRYPT provides auditable, compliant, and secure 24/7 access to DeFi yield markets for banks, funds, and professional investors, built on bank-grade security, custody infrastructure and Swiss regulated environment. Gauntlet’s on-chain vault strategies – already managing more than $1.5 billion across DeFi assets – will be available through SCRYPT’s Swiss-licensed portfolio management structure. As a vault curator, Gauntlet develops, deploys, and oversees vaults that run DeFi yield strategies backed by battle-tested quantitative models.
“The demand for institutional DeFi is real – what’s been missing is a reliable way in. By combining Gauntlet’s leading market research and on-chain risk models with our regulated institutional framework, we’re bringing Traditional Finance standards to DeFi innovation and empowering firms to access bespoke yield strategies with clarity and confidence,” said Norman Wooding, founder and CEO of SCRYPT.
“Gauntlet’s mission has always been to bring quantitative rigour to decentralized markets. By partnering with SCRYPT, together we are providing a seamless, compliant, and scalable conduit for major European institutions to access superior, risk-managed DeFi yield strategies,” added Rahul Goyal, head of institutional partnership at Gauntlet.
John Orthwein, head of DeFi at SCRYPT, said,
“Our collaboration with Gauntlet extends Gauntlet’s risk-managed vault strategies into a high-quality, institutional marketplace. Together, we’re creating a new paradigm for how institutional capital engages with DeFi – safely, transparently, and at scale.”
