Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra) — Twitter Score 711 out of 1000

Tarun Chitra is a DeFi risk researcher and investor who co-founded Gauntlet, a financial modeling and risk parameter optimization platform for DeFi protocols. Tarun Chitra's Twitter Score is 711 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #115 (top 0.1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.

Tarun Chitra co-founded Gauntlet alongside Rei Chiang and John Morrow, building it into a leading DeFi risk management firm serving protocols including Aave, Compound, Uniswap, and Morpho. Gauntlet raised a $23.8 million Series B led by Ribbit Capital, with Paradigm and Polychain Capital participating, reaching a $1 billion valuation in March 2022. In February 2024, Gauntlet terminated its risk-management relationship with Aave DAO, citing inconsistent guidelines from its largest stakeholders, and subsequently entered a partnership with Morpho to build its own lending products. Prior to founding Gauntlet, Chitra previously worked at D.E. Shaw Research as a scientific programmer and at Vatic Labs as a quantitative researcher.

Tarun Chitra is also General Partner at Robot Ventures, an early-stage crypto fund co-led with Robert Leshner of Compound. Robot Ventures raised a $75 million Fund IV in August 2024, roughly three times the size of its prior fund, with LPs including TrueBridge Capital Partners, Haun Ventures, Marc Andreessen, and Chris Dixon. Tarun Chitra was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance list in 2022 for pioneering DeFi risk management.

Tarun Chitra founded Aera Protocol, a protocol designed to help DAOs manage treasury assets on-chain, which raised $8 million in a token presale in October 2023 led by Bain Capital Crypto with Jump Crypto participating. Tarun Chitra has also co-authored over 24 peer-reviewed papers on DeFi economics, including foundational analyses of constant function market makers and MEV.

Tarun Chitra co-hosts The Chopping Block, a weekly crypto podcast on the Unchained network alongside Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Robert Leshner, and appears as a recurring guest co-host on Zero Knowledge FM. Tarun Chitra is also affiliated with The Latest in DeFi Research. Tarun Chitra's account has accumulated 81,867 followers as of July 2026 across 27,227 posts. Tarun Chitra has been mentioned by 638 accounts a total of 1,721 times.

As an angel investor, Tarun Chitra has backed Sonic, Pleasr, DELV, Polymarket, Syndicate, Goldfinch, ClayStack and Privy.

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The accounts that follow Tarun Chitra include 2,534 founders, 743 angel investors, 1,147 influencers and 78 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Solana, vitalik.eth, Laura Shin, Toly and Cobie.