Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra
Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra) is the founder and CEO of Gauntlet, the crypto-economic risk-modeling firm that major DeFi protocols rely on to simulate and tune their parameters. With a background spanning high-frequency trading and scientific computing, he is one of the field's most rigorous public thinkers on mechanism design, MEV, staking economics, and protocol risk. He is also an active angel investor in the space. His roughly 78,500 followers get a feed that swings from dense research threads to genuinely funny shitposts — a combination that has made him a fixture of research-minded crypto Twitter.
Why follow
- Quantitative, simulation-backed takes on DeFi risk that few others can offer
- Early and technically grounded coverage of MEV, staking, and mechanism-design debates
- A research-culture hub whose threads attract top protocol designers and academics
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