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Guardrail

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Founded 2022 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors

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Guardrail provides real-time security for onchain finance, monitoring transactions across smart contracts, wallets, bridges, and mempools to detect threats and trigger automated protective responses. It serves DeFi-native teams, stablecoin issuers, and regulated institutions, offering runtime detection, compliance monitoring, and incident response across more than 30 blockchains.

Also known as Guardrail · Guardrail - a Rain Company

Founders & leadership

Guardrail was founded in 2022 by Sam Saluja and Samridh Saluja.

SSSam Saluja
Sam SalujainFounderSam Saluja is a security engineer and founder working on blockchain security infrastructure. He has background in incident response, infrastructure security, and application security.
SSSamridh Saluja
Samridh SalujainFounder & CEOSamridh Saluja is a security engineer who transitioned to founding Guardrail, which provides real-time threat detection and response for blockchain finance. He has background in incident response, cross-functional security, and backend/application security.

Investors · 3

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Guardrail is an onchain security company that provides real-time threat detection and automated response for blockchain protocols, stablecoins, and AI agents. Its core product concept is "Guards" — programmatic checks that evaluate each transaction's logic and state, flag risks in real time, and can trigger automated responses. Guards can be executed per block, per function, or per event, and run across testnet, app-chain, and mainnet environments, with the company describing sub-second transaction scanning live across more than 30 chains.

The platform is organized around four functions: monitoring (tracking onchain transactions, offchain inputs, and protocol-specific behaviour), alerting (context-aware notifications for threats, anomalies, or policy breaches), responding (auto-triggering protective actions such as pausing functions, flagging wallets, or escalating to a team), and prevention (simulating risky transactions or enforcing runtime checks before exploits reach production). Guardrail integrates with customers' existing CI/CD pipelines, operations stacks, and on-call systems; one customer testimonial describes integration with PagerDuty.

According to its website, Guardrail has joined Rain, and in February 2026 it announced a proactive security model for stablecoins under which Rain uses Guardrail's runtime detection and managed incident response for stablecoin payments across more than 150 countries.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Assets protectedJan 2026$5B
Chains supportedJan 202630 chains
Contracts monitoredJan 2026180 contracts
Guards deployedJan 2026295 guards

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 10

by search overlap
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Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Apr 2026
Guardrail partners with Catalysis to secure onchain risk coverage infrastructure

Partnership under which Guardrail secures DeFi vaults on Morpho and beyond for Catalysis's onchain risk coverage infrastructure.

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Feb 2026
Guardrail launches proactive security model for stablecoins

Guardrail announced a proactive security model for stablecoins; Rain secures stablecoin payments across 150+ countries using Guardrail's runtime detection and managed incident response.

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Jan 2026
Guardrail joins Rain

Guardrail's website announces that it has joined Rain to extend protection of onchain payments; the site is branded "Guardrail - a Rain Company".

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Guardrail do?
Guardrail, now part of Rain, provides real-time onchain threat detection and automated response for blockchain protocols.
Who founded Guardrail?
Guardrail was founded by Sam Saluja, Samridh Saluja in 2022.
Who are Guardrail's investors?
Guardrail's investors include Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Canonical Crypto.