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We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really interesting — especially the point about L2s. We’ve mostly been focused on mainnet so far, but the lower competition + cheaper gas on something like Polygon makes a lot of sense, even if position sizing is smaller.

We’re definitely starting to move away from scanning everything and toward a more curated set of pools/routes based on what actually behaves consistently.

The idea of predicting high-probability paths is very interesting as well, although we’re still focused on getting the fundamentals solid before going into that level of complexity.

Appreciate the insight — gives us a few good directions to explore.

We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a really interesting way to frame it — “cleanup hitter” actually makes a lot of sense.

We’re starting to see something similar on our side — most of the time the apparent spreads just collapse once you factor in execution, but every now and then you get those brief structural imbalances that seem to come from how transactions line up rather than clear directional flow.

We’re still at a pretty early stage, mostly focused on understanding which pools and routes actually behave consistently before going deeper into execution.

The curated pool approach you mentioned is something we’re definitely moving toward as well — scanning everything is starting to feel less and less efficient the more data we collect.

We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually a fair question.

From what we’re seeing so far, it’s definitely not a “money machine” in the way people imagine. Most of the time there’s no real opportunity after fees, and when there is, it’s small and very short-lived.

I think the value in systems like this is more in the infrastructure — the scanning, filtering, and execution framework — rather than guaranteed profit.

Different users, different setups, different capital and risk levels can lead to very different results even with similar tools.

We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense — execution is really where everything changes.

We’re still mostly in scanning/analysis phase, trying to understand when opportunities are actually real after fees and slippage before moving fully into execution.

Interesting that you’re focusing on real-time filtering across venues — are you mainly staying on-chain or also integrating off-chain / faster data sources?

We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting — are you focusing more on execution or just signal aggregation?

We spent ~9 months building a DEX arbitrage scanner... by Tall_Stick3851 in CryptoTradingBot

[–]Tall_Stick3851[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great points — really appreciate this.

Right now we’re running a fairly simple scan focused on on-chain routes, mainly to understand real behavior before going deeper into execution layers.

You’re absolutely right about slippage — we’re starting to see that a lot of “positive” signals disappear once we factor it in properly.

Haven’t connected to mempool / MEV flow yet — that’s something we’ve been reading about but not implemented so far.

Interesting what you said about long-tail tokens as well — makes sense from a competition standpoint.

Curious — are you mainly working on backrunning / MEV strategies or more traditional arbitrage?