Tempest Finance Review 2026: Ambient Vaults With ZKML Claims

Tempest Finance is a liquidity management protocol built on top of Ambient Finance, a decentralized exchange. It describes itself as the Large Liquidity Model for Ambient and positions itself as an omnichain liquidity network.

Its vaults manage user liquidity automatically and non-custodially, and they add ERC4626 compliance to Ambient positions. The project says the vaults use Ambient features such as knockout liquidity and hooks, along with Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning to respond to market conditions.

Tracking data lists Tempest on nine networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, Scroll, Manta, Canto and Swellchain. It has been listed since November 2024. Total value locked is about $17,700, which makes it a very small protocol. It has no token and two listed audits.

Ambient Finance is a decentralized exchange where liquidity providers place capital in price ranges. Positions that sit out of range stop earning fees, so they need regular adjustment. Tempest's vaults take deposits and handle that work.

Users deposit assets into a vault and receive shares under the ERC4626 standard. The vault then deploys the pooled funds as liquidity on Ambient, using features the project names as knockout liquidity and hooks. The project says it uses Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning to adjust positions as markets move.

Rewards come from trading fees on the underlying Ambient pools, reflected in the value of vault shares. Returns depend on trading volume, price movement and how well the strategy rebalances. Losses from impermanent loss remain possible.

Tempest does not publish fee details in the material reviewed. Management, performance or withdrawal fees, if any, would be shown in the vault interface or documentation before depositing.

Users should also account for network gas on each chain and the swap fees and impermanent loss inherent in providing liquidity on Ambient Finance, which affect returns regardless of vault fees.

Two audits are listed in tracking data, but the auditors, dates and findings are not named in the material reviewed. Users should find the reports and confirm the deployed contracts match the audited code.

Tempest is non-custodial by its own description, but vault users still bear smart-contract risk, dependency risk on Ambient Finance, impermanent loss and any risk from the automated strategy. With total value locked under $20,000, the vaults have not been tested with significant capital. The project does not publish team details or regulatory status in the material reviewed, and no security incidents appear in it.

Tempest is aimed at DeFi liquidity providers who use Ambient Finance and want automated range management without running their own strategy. It is best suited to users comfortable reading contracts and audit reports and willing to accept the risks of a small, early-stage protocol.