Most people still think crypto arbitrage bots win by speed alone.
That assumption died once markets fragmented and latency arbitrage disappeared behind co-location and priority systems.
The arbitrage edge today isn’t raw speed — it’s predictive spread modeling + cross-protocol settlement design.
Bots that simply react to price mismatches get eaten by execution friction and MEV competition.
Real alpha comes from anticipating where liquidity will be, not where it was.