One sentence: The same pile of shit sells for 10 bucks on exchange A, and everyone on B exchange bids 11 bucks to buy it. You buy low and sell high, pocketing the entire spread, theoretically almost risk-free.

Four Major Mainstream Arbitrage Opportunities You Can Still Eat in 2025 (Covering Retail to Institutions)

1. Cross-Exchange Arbitrage (The Most Classic, Never Runs Out)

BTC at 69,800 USD on Binance, 70,200 USD on OKX

 

→ Buy on Binance + Sell on OKX → Transfer → Reverse hedge → Loop and eat

 

Annualized 30%-150%, depending on your fees and transfer speed.

 

Retail secret: Only do BTC, ETH, SOL these big coins, fast transfers, good depth, frequent spreads.

2. Funding Rate Arbitrage (The God of Passive Income)

Perpetual contract funding rate turns positive 0.05% (every 8 hours)

 

→ Buy BTC spot → Open short position on contract to hedge

 

→ Even if price doesn't move, you still earn funding rate, annualized up to 30%-80%

 

Conversely, if rate is heavily negative, reverse it: short spot, long contract.

 

In the 2024-2025 bull market, this meat has been eaten until many are full to bursting.

3. Triangular Arbitrage (Robot Exclusive, Retail Gets the Soup)

Three trading pairs within the same exchange have arithmetic errors:

 

USDT→BTC→ETH→USDT ends up with 0.5%-2% extra

 

Manual clicking? Dream on.

 

Robots strike three times in 0.1 seconds, retail can only occasionally pick up scraps with lightning swaps.

4. CEX ↔ DEX Arbitrage (Even New Leeks Can Eat)

ETH at 3,520 USD on Uniswap, 3,500 USD on Binance

 

→ Buy on Binance → On-chain flash loan → Sell on Uniswap → Repay loan → Profit in pocket

 

Now one-click arbitrage bots are everywhere, even 10U principal can play.

Real Profit Levels (2025 Latest Edition)

  • Ordinary retail, manual cross-exchange, annualized 20-60%
  • VIP3 account, discounted fees, annualized 80-150%
  • Robots + institutional channels, annualized 200-800% (but principal starts at 8 figures)
  • Top high-frequency teams, annualized 2000%+ (no longer for humans)

4 Iron Rules for Retail to Survive

  • Always calculate dead fees + withdrawal fees + slippage, don't move if profit below 0.3%
  • Transfers must use the fastest chain (BTC via Lightning Network, ETH via Arbitrum, USDT via TRC20)
  • Once spread appears, must order within 5 seconds, or robots snatch it all
  • Never touch small coins or altcoins no matter the spread, withdrawal takes 4 hours, profit gone

Last Big Truth

Arbitrage in 2025 is no longer a question of "whether there are opportunities,"

 

but "whether you qualify to eat the meat."

 

Retail being able to sip the soup is already thanking heaven and earth,

 

Those who can eat the meat are the ones who can afford VIP9 annual fees, write code, and run servers.

 

The rest of us?

 

Honestly stick to cross-exchange + funding rates, two full meals one hungry,

 

Earn 50-100% a year without going all-in, already beaten 99% of players.

 

Surviving is more important than getting rich quick.