Published on Mon Sep 29 2025 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Orkid Labs
Last night on Polygon, a LINK/USDC arbitrage sat wide open for 100 minutes straight. Peak profit: $97.44 net, after flash-swap fees and gas. No bot touched it. No arbitrageur stepped in. The spread just sat there—visible, profitable, completely ignored.
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