Tarun Chitra is Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties of Uniswap and Compound. Previously, he worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.