Gauntlet Returns: Understanding Where Your DeFi Yield Comes From | Ep 61 🍻🌗

Rise Up Media · Dec 18, 2025 · 1h 49m

Goodnow revolutionaries—

Simon from Gauntlet returns to After Dark for a deep dive into DeFi risk management and yield strategies. Gauntlet helps protocols and users understand where yield actually comes from—the single most important question in DeFi.

Simon explains that most things go wrong because users don't understand the source of their yield, whether it's lending yield, staking yield, or something else entirely.

We compare Aave (one giant basket for lending/borrowing) vs Morpho (permissionless, isolated markets) vs Maple/Syrup (institutional lending). Fascinating stat: Aave is now…