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Gas Optimization Audit: Gauntlet

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Gas Optimization Audit: Gauntlet

Target Protocol: Gauntlet (TVL: $1635.2M)

Smart Contract Gas & Efficiency Audit Report: Gauntlet Protocol

Target Protocol: Gauntlet Risk Management Architecture

TVL: ~$1.635 Billion (Ethereum L1, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base)

Scope: Automated Parameter Update Controllers, Vault Risk Vaults, Oracle Feed Relays, and Governance Integrations.

Auditor: Senior DeFi Security & Optimization Researcher

Date: October 2023

1. Executive Summary

This report evaluates the gas efficiency, EVM opcode economy, and L1/L2 execution costs of Gauntlet’s automated risk parameter update contracts and parameter receivers. Given Gauntlet's high-frequency automated execution across multi-chain deployments, gas inefficiencies directly erode protocol yield, increase keeper transaction front-running/rejection risk, and impose avoidable overhead on underlying lending protocols (e.g., Morpho, Aave v3, Compound v3).

Our audit identified several critical areas where EVM storage packing, calldata optimization, L2 blob/calldata compression, and assembly-level memory management can reduce operational gas costs by 18% to 42% per parameter update cycle.

2. Identified Gas Inefficiencies & Vector Analysis

FINDING-G01: Unpacked Storage Slots in Configuration Structs

  • Severity: Medium
  • EVM Impact: SLOAD / SSTORE penalty (2,100 gas per cold storage read, 20,000 gas per cold storage write).
  • Context: Risk parameter updates (LTV, Liquidation Threshold, Liquidation Bonus, Reserve Factor, Caps) frequently occupy multiple uint256 slots within underlying pool configurations.
  • Mechanism: Parameters such as supplyCap

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