# Chaos Labs Risk Stewards - Increase Supply Caps on Aave V3 - 07.03.25

**URL:** https://governance.aave.com/t/chaos-labs-risk-stewards-increase-supply-caps-on-aave-v3-07-03-25/22500
**Category:** Governance
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/chaos-labs-risk-stewards-increase-supply-caps-on-aave-v3-07-03-25/22500 "2025-07-03T19:04:27Z")
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### Author: ![ChaosLabs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/governance.aave.com/chaoslabs/32/6850_2.png) [@ChaosLabs](https://governance.aave.com/u/ChaosLabs)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/chaos-labs-risk-stewards-increase-supply-caps-on-aave-v3-07-03-25/22500/1 "2025-07-03T19:04:27Z")

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# **Summary**

A proposal to:

- Increase rsETH’s supply cap on the Arbitrum instance
- Increase FBTC’s supply cap on the Ethereum Core instance
- Increase PT-USDe supply cap on the Ethereum Core instance

All cap increases are backed by [Chaos Labs’ risk simulations](https://cdn.sanity.io/files/zmh9mnff/production/130e1060165f7ab0766bb4c70cc2ec41c1d1e458.pdf), which consider user behavior, on-chain liquidity, and price impact, ensuring that higher caps do not introduce additional risk to the platform.

# rsETH (Arbitrum)

rsETH reached 100% supply cap utilization.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/d/d3a95268102eefd6ac669191d579b68affe97613.png)

 ![image (1)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/2/2089720ded8d441969e0087ba0d396526bc6e64e.png)

### Supply Distribution

The supply of rsETH is highly concentrated, with the top supplier accounting for over 99% of the total, which introduces a concentration risk.

 ![image (2)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/9/91937bfd6011fde42b4713d80b7f81938801a2ef.png)

However, given that the user is borrowing wstETH, a highly correlated asset, and maintains a reasonable health score at 1.27, immediate liquidation risk exposure is significantly reduced.

 ![image (3)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/e/ef74a661ee40d7e2049855bcefb4e885eaa3d205.png)

### Liquidity

Although rsETH liquidity on Arbitrum declined from April to early June, it has stabilized at a level that limits slippage to roughly 2% on a 100 rsETH sell order. In a forced-liquidation scenario, this depth would still be too shallow to facilitate efficient liquidations. Still, the associated risk is minimal because the collateral and debt assets are highly correlated.

 ![image (4)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/7/7006d71a6e86fbb20ada0d86de6993069626002e.png)

# FBTC (Ethereum Core)

FBTC on Ethereum Core has reached max supply at 400 FBTC.

 ![image (5)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/e/e651ddc7026ba36c97991dc295252a946c1175b0.png)

While total supply has crossed $40M the borrowing has been growing very conservatively, with the utilization at 0.01%

 ![image (6)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/7/73b093036055223772d066feaa898d55cfa71f69.png)

### Supply Distribution

The supply of FBTC presents moderate concentration risk, with the top supplier accounting for over 60%. The suppliers are maintaining relatively high health scores ranging from 1.26 to 1.49, limiting liquidation risk.

 ![image (7)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/c/cad4fa265b4d643b6f1af82e022277119a06c731.png)

The suppliers borrow mostly stablecoins (USDT, RLUSD) and WETH against the collateral, posing limited liquidation risks, additionally the top supplier is using $15M RLUSD to further collateralize his USDT debt.

 ![image (8)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/a/aae36546de1f405ac46d3786c1c2eba3d410ebd1.png)

### Liquidity

Available liquidity for FBTC/WBTC is sufficient for a moderate cap increase, currently a combination uniswap pools can facilitate a sell order of 150 FBTC with a conservative 2.5% slippage.

# PT-USDe (Ethereum Core)

PT-USDe-31JUL2025 had reached its supply cap at $180M on June 17th.

 ![image (9)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/2/20847d8233b95312129e899593cd30538a7f1cea.png)

 ![image (10)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/a/aedca1c724268ac1a1d3f306cd206982d383cd34.png)

### Supply Distribution

As covered in previous risk recommendations. PT-USDe collateral is mostly used to borrow stablecoins either with the USDe E-Mode or Stablecoin E-Mode, in order to further deposit them into Pendle and continue looping. The supply concentration is moderately high with the top 3 suppliers accounting for ~73% of the total.

 ![image (11)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/b/bc78c79cb630c1dba62e00de5d0c4be7438ca2e0.png)

All of the collateral is used to borrow highly correlated assets with 45% USDe ($73M) and the rest being split between USDT ($82M), USDC ($3 M), USDS ($1.5M). The relative increase in usage of USDe since the middle of June can be attributed to the USDe E-Mode which in comparison to the Stablecoin E-Mode offers significantly more capital efficiency, due to looser risk parameters.

 ![image (12)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/9/9cb1d05f2e852886eacf525c14079be5ed3bcf77.png)

### Liquidity

Although liquidity is currently insufficient to liquidate the outstanding supply, the market’s structure mitigates some of the associated risks. As PT-USDe naturally converges toward its underlying (USDe) with maturity, the notional that would have to be sold in case of a liquidation gradually declines, significantly limiting liquidation risk as the PTs approach maturity.

 ![Tb8z9guhPcryTKwh5xqf_slippage](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/3/3da17259d315bdc4243d3a0312e40533b357dadb.png)

The PT-USDe-30JUL2025 market has also maintained a stable APY in the 7% - 8% range.

 ![image (13)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/f/f500a337ec285a2b6d5dca9d2710c331222d130c.png)

### Recommendation

Based on the observed user behavior and current on-chain liquidity conditions, we recommend raising the supply cap for rsETH on the Arbitrum instance and PT-USDe, FBTC on Ethereum Core.

# **Specification**

| **Instance** | **Asset** | **Current Supply Cap** | **Recommended Supply Cap** | **Current Borrow Cap** | **Recommended Borrow Cap** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arbitrum | rsETH | 3,960 | 7920 | - | - |
| Ethereum Core | FBTC | 400 | 600 | 100 | - |
| Ethereum Core | PT-USDe | 180,000,000 | 200,000,000 | - | - |

# **Next Steps**

We will move forward and implement these updates via the Risk Steward process.

# **Disclaimer**

Chaos Labs has not been compensated by any third party for publishing this recommendation.

# **Copyright**

Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain)

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#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/chaos-labs-risk-stewards-increase-supply-caps-on-aave-v3-07-03-25/22500/2 "2025-07-04T12:22:22Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aave/original/2X/e/e11637c36f45ffa158f2146f5c19438d46e0824d.svg) [@system](https://governance.aave.com/u/system)
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