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Aave V3 Raises Supply Caps for weETH, wstETH, and USDT Amid Near-Capacity Utilization

Aave Governance Forum · Aug 14, 2026 12:09 PM EDT

Aave V3's Risk Stewards approved supply cap increases for weETH from 1.22 million to 1.35 million and for wstETH from 1.0 million to 1.1 million on the Core instance, alongside a USDT cap increase on BNB chain and a doubling of the FBTC cap on Mantle. The weETH increase was prompted by utilization reaching 95.5%, with all top twenty suppliers carrying outstanding debt and a median health factor of just 1.06, indicating concentrated leverage. Fifteen of the top borrowers are using weETH as collateral to borrow WETH, a common ETH-basis trade structure. For Armada's crypto desk, the near-unity health factors among top weETH depositors signal that ETH liquid staking tokens are being used aggressively as repo-like leverage instruments in DeFi. Armada's LTV framework for ETH-based collateral should account for this crowded positioning dynamic, particularly if market makers or hedge funds bring similar structures to Armada's repo facility.

Suggested action Benchmark Armada ETH-collateral LTV policy against Aave weETH and wstETH cap utilization and borrower health factor data.
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