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Arbitrage

Profiting from the same asset trading at two prices.

Arbitrage is the mechanism that keeps venues and pools aligned. In crypto it is largely automated and measured in milliseconds, and its profitability is a decent gauge of how fragmented liquidity has become.

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Ethereum, Smart Contract, Gas, DeFi, Decentralised Exchange

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