Buying an asset in one venue and simultaneously selling it in another to capture a price difference.
Last verified 13 September 2026 · written by the DexLadder team
What it means
Buying an asset in one venue and simultaneously selling it in another to capture a price difference.
Why it matters when you trade
Arbitrage is the mechanism that keeps prices roughly consistent everywhere, and it is what makes AMM pools track the wider market at all: when a pool drifts, arbitrageurs correct it and pocket the difference, paid for by liquidity providers. For a human it is mostly unreachable — the gaps close in milliseconds and the edge lives in latency, gas and inventory, not in noticing.
Worked example
A pool prices ETH at 2,980 while centralised books show 3,000. A bot buys the pool, sells the book and closes the gap within a block.
See it on live markets
DexLadder runs arbitrage against live market and pool data, with simulated capital, so you can watch it act on an order instead of reading about it — no account, no wallet, nothing installed.