Everything you want to ask about crypto arbitrage

Crypto arbitrage is trading the price difference for the same coin between two markets. The same coin can cost 1–5% more on one exchange than on another for a few minutes — an arbitrage trader sells where it is expensive and buys where it is cheap, locking that gap in as profit regardless of where the market goes next. In practice both positions are opened simultaneously (a hedged pair), so you are never simply holding the coin — price swings on one leg are cancelled out by the other.

Perpetual futures charge a funding rate — a small payment between long and short holders every 1–8 hours. When funding on one exchange is strongly positive, shorts get paid to hold. Funding arbitrage pairs a short on that exchange with an offsetting long (futures or spot) elsewhere: price risk is hedged, and you collect the funding payments for as long as the gap lasts. Arbiline shows live funding on every leg and up to 90 days of history, so you can see how stable a rate actually is before entering.

No. The strategies Arbiline is built for are two-leg hedged trades: you open both positions at the same time on two exchanges and close them there too. Nothing ever moves between exchanges — no withdrawal fees, no network delays, no risk of a deposit getting stuck mid-trade. You only need balances parked on the exchanges you trade on.

In most jurisdictions arbitrage is a normal trading strategy — you are simply buying and selling on public markets, and exchanges themselves run arbitrage desks. What you should check: that crypto trading itself is allowed where you live, and that you follow each exchange's terms of service. Nothing about arbitrage as a technique is prohibited on the exchanges Arbiline supports. This is not legal advice — rules differ by country.

Definitely yes. Opportunities are not sitting on the table around the clock, but they show up regularly: fresh listings, volatile alts, funding-rate skews and news-driven moves keep opening spreads between exchanges — a handful on some days, dozens on others. The hard part is catching them: the windows can be short, and watching hundreds of coins across 12+ exchanges by hand is impossible — that is what the scanner and the alerts are for. Profit is never guaranteed, but the opportunities are real: you can watch them appear in our live table for free.

Spot and futures on Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, Bitget, MEXC, KuCoin, BingX, Kraken and Aster. Hyperliquid, Lighter and Polymarket are perpetual DEXes, so they are futures only.

API keys from the exchanges you want to trade on, created with trading access — withdrawal permission is never needed. We recommend a separate sub-account on each exchange for arbitrage, so this capital stays apart from the rest of your funds. Your money never leaves your own exchange accounts.

Start by watching: the live table is open to everyone, no signup. From there the Data plan is the natural first step — you get the alerts group, so opportunities come to you instead of you staring at the screen, and every alert is something you can immediately try in demo mode on a practice balance. That combination is the cheapest way to learn: real signals, real prices, zero risk. Once you have the experience, move up to the Trader plan, add your API keys and start trading real money — with a small size at first.

With nothing at all, if you start in demo mode — it runs on a practice balance, so you can trade the whole flow before funding anything. For real trading, you can start with 20–30 dollars. Just keep in mind that the money has to sit on several exchanges at once, so the real minimum is roughly $20 multiplied by the number of exchanges you trade on. We recommend at least $100 on each. And the more capital you trade with, the more the same spread is worth to you.

Demo mode is the whole platform running on a practice balance: the same live table, the same trading panel, fills simulated against real orderbooks with real fee math. It is free on every account with no time limit — we built it so your first mistakes happen on a demo balance, not on real money. When you are ready, one switch moves you to real trading.

It depends on you. The numbers differ from trader to trader — everyone runs their own strategy, size and risk appetite — but once you get some experience, 1% to 20% a month on the volume you trade is realistic. To be clear: we are not selling a money button or easy money. We give you the tool — the data, the execution and the protection — and you are the one who trades with it. Arbitrage is high-risk, profit is never guaranteed, and you can lose money. That is exactly why we built demo mode — get the experience there first, without risking a cent.

Arbitrage is high-risk and highly profitable at the same time — one does not come without the other. The main risks: liquidation of one side, auto-deleveraging that closes a side for you, a spread that goes far wider than your entry, and slippage on thin orderbooks. Experience and proper risk management bring these risks way down, but never to zero.

No. Arbiline is a flat subscription — we never take a percentage of your volume or profit, and we never touch your money: trades are executed through your own API keys and funds stay on your own exchange accounts. The only trading costs are the exchanges' own fees, which the panel already includes in its numbers.

Keys are created by you, with trading permission only — withdrawal rights are never needed, so even in the worst case nobody can move funds off your exchange account. You can revoke a key on the exchange at any moment, and we recommend a separate sub-account for arbitrage, so the keys only ever see that slice of your capital.

There are two kinds. Spread alerts (Data plan) arrive in a members-only Telegram group: each message is the whole picture — coin, both exchanges, spread, volume, funding on each leg, deposit and withdraw status — in separate threads per strategy. Position alerts (Trader plan) go to your own private bot: price moves, spread changes, funding switches and external closes on your open positions, each with thresholds you set yourself.

The scariest failure in arbitrage is losing one side without noticing — a liquidation, an auto-deleveraging (ADL) or an accidental close leaves the other leg naked, fully exposed to price. Protection watches your open positions 24/7 on our servers, even with your browser closed. The moment a side disappears you get an instant alert, and — if you enable it — the remaining leg is automatically re-hedged or closed.

Yes — with an important caveat: the engine automates execution, not decision-making. It never picks trades for you and does not enter every spread on the site. You choose the pair yourself, set the entry spread, the size and, optionally, an exit target — the engine only ever acts on those instructions. What it adds is the part no human can do: watching both orderbooks non-stop and firing both legs the moment your spread confirms, even at 4 a.m. With an exit target set it runs in cycles — open on your entry spread, close on your exit — useful on coins where the same gap keeps coming back. Every fill, finished cycle and failure lands in your Telegram, and you can stop a run at any moment.

Most products stop at signals: they show you a spread and leave you to execute it by hand in two exchange tabs. Arbiline is the full loop: the scanner prices every spread from real orderbooks with your fees included, one click opens both legs at once, protection guards the position 24/7, and the auto-trade engine can run the whole cycle for you. Speed is the whole game here — while others are still opening exchange pages and typing in the size on each side, you are already in the trade. Plus a free demo on real market data — you can try the entire flow before risking anything.