# Gauntlet Guardian - Increase WETH Supply and Borrow Caps

**URL:** <https://forum.moonwell.fi/t/gauntlet-guardian-increase-weth-supply-and-borrow-caps/847>\
**Category:** Proposals\
**Tags:** base\
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.moonwell.fi/t/gauntlet-guardian-increase-weth-supply-and-borrow-caps/847 "2024-03-29T22:25:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gauntlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.moonwell.fi/gauntlet/32/780_2.png) [@Gauntlet](https://forum.moonwell.fi/u/Gauntlet)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.moonwell.fi/t/gauntlet-guardian-increase-weth-supply-and-borrow-caps/847/1 "2024-03-29T22:25:20Z")

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## Simple Summary

Gauntlet will use Cap Guardian to increase Supply and Borrow caps for wETH.

| | Current Supply Cap | Recommended Supply Cap | Current Borrow Cap | Recommended Borrow Cap |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WETH | 18000 | 22000 | 14000 | 16000 |

Gauntlet will be utilizing the Cap Guardians to enact this change as voted by the community within this forum [post](https://forum.moonwell.fi/t/gauntlets-initial-recommendations-for-moonwell-on-base/536) and [proposal](https://gov.moonwell.fi/artemis/proposal/39).

## Supporting Data

### WETH Cap Recommendations

**Cap Usage**

The WETH Supply Cap and Borrow Cap has increased over the 75% threshold.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/moonwell/original/2X/5/574dcd12e1e94fef41e08245f3b8f39414779265.png)

### WETH positions

The top 10 positions supplying WETH are borrowing correlated assets with exception for two positions borrowing USDC. Gauntlet will continue to monitor these positions. These top 10 positions make up more than 50% of all WETH borrows

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/moonwell/original/2X/8/8c08055326977b65939ce6171eac8f729c489ac3.png)

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**Author:** ![Gauntlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.moonwell.fi/gauntlet/32/780_2.png) [@Gauntlet](https://forum.moonwell.fi/u/Gauntlet)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.moonwell.fi/t/gauntlet-guardian-increase-weth-supply-and-borrow-caps/847/2 "2024-03-29T22:26:24Z")

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Guardian [Transaction 1](https://basescan.org/tx/0xc14ecf979ea171793e35153c4e772e021586875dd791204a05fe02e3eb61e510) and [Transaction 2](https://basescan.org/tx/0x43fa8d1113e59892394115150997aca51bdac9ce14609df9eff6de5292b652c4) have been implemented.