Crypto arbitrage, and why most of it is already gone
Crypto arbitrage is buying the same thing in one place and selling it higher in another. The idea is simple and the reason it is hard is not that the maths is difficult. It is that the gap closes faster than a person can move.
The gap is usually already taken
A price difference between two venues is visible to everyone with a connection, and bots act on it in milliseconds. By the time a difference is large enough to notice by eye, it usually survives for a reason: a withdrawal is halted, a chain is congested, one side is thin enough that filling it moves the price, or the fee eats the whole edge. The opportunity is real and the reason it is still there is the part worth reading.
What a scanner is actually for
Not finding free money. Finding the small set of routes where the difference is larger than the total cost of taking it, and telling you honestly what that cost is. Fees on both legs, slippage on the thinner side, and the pool depth that decides whether your size fits at all. A scanner that reports a spread without those is reporting a number that cannot be traded.
What ours returns right now
A live scan across Solana liquidity pools, filtered to a minimum depth so that thin pools do not produce phantom routes. It reports the round trips it can see, the venues each leg would use, and the depth behind them. It is a public endpoint and needs no key, so the same figures are available to you as to us.
Where this stops being a search and becomes a build
Reading a scanner is easy. Acting on it consistently means position sizing, fee accounting, handling a leg that fills at a worse price than quoted, and knowing when not to trade. That is an application rather than a query, and it is the thing worth generating. The market table further down is live, which is the same source such an app would read.
Live, right now, on this page
| Market | Price | Funding | 24h volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC | $78,000.50 | 0.0013% | $144,118,764 |
| ETH | $2,452.85 | 0.0013% | $98,133,720 |
| SOL | $104.59 | 0.0013% | $36,751,929 |
| HYPE | $83.24 | 0.0013% | $10,211,466 |
Live perpetual market data, read at render. The Solana round-trip scanner is a separate public endpoint on the same infrastructure.
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