Aave V3 Risk Stewards recommended increasing the LBTC supply cap on the Core instance from 2,240 to 2,690 after the asset reached 97.4% utilization. Among the top twenty LBTC suppliers, health factors ranged from 1.12 to 16.15 with a median of 1.41, and the majority of borrowers are short stablecoins against BTC-linked collateral, meaning position health tracks directly with BTC price movement. Simultaneously, WETH supply and borrow caps on Linea were cut sharply, reflecting reduced liquidity depth on that chain.
For Armada's crypto repo desk, a median health factor of 1.41 across large LBTC positions on Aave V3 is a concrete stress indicator for BTC-collateralized lending at current price levels. This real-time data should inform Armada's BTC haircut schedule; if Aave's risk stewards are managing cap utilization this tightly, Armada's own margin buffer assumptions deserve parallel scrutiny.