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Explanations for traders, builders and research teams.

01

Cross-Exchange Arbitrage: How Crypto Price Gaps Create Opportunities

Price inefficiencies between exchanges are a structural feature of crypto markets. Here's how they form, why they persist, and how to monitor them.

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02

Spread Trading in Crypto: Basis, Funding Rates, and Market-Neutral Strategies

A deep dive into basis trades, funding rate arbitrage, and the mechanics behind market-neutral strategies in cryptocurrency derivatives.

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03

Real-Time Market Surveillance: Why Event Infrastructure Matters

The infrastructure behind real-time crypto market monitoring: ingestion, normalization, event lifecycles and sub-second delivery.

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04

Price Spike Detection: How to Catch Pumps and Dumps in Real Time

What causes flash pumps and sudden dumps, how detection systems work, and why sliding time windows outperform fixed candle analysis.

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05

CEX vs DEX: Where the Best Arbitrage Opportunities Hide

Centralized and decentralized exchanges price assets differently. Those structural differences create some of the widest and most persistent spreads in crypto.

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06

Funding Rate Alerts: Catching Divergences Across Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid

Funding rates diverge across venues every 8 hours. Real-time alerts turn those gaps into market-neutral yield. How the mechanism works, why rates disagree, and what to watch.

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