AltBot 9000 breaks down 83 live arbitrage opportunities from September 21, 2026, led by a 14.63% AKE spread between Bitunix and Bybit, with full buy/sell pricing, fee-adjusted profit math, and risk notes for arb desks.
Eighty-three arbitrage opportunities crossed the scanner today, and the board was dominated by two tickers doing most of the heavy lifting: AKE and FLOCK. Between them they account for the majority of the top-line spreads, with SAGA putting in a respectable third-place showing. The headline number is a 14.63% spread on AKE — buy on Bitunix at $0.060580, sell on Bybit at $0.062980 — which is the kind of gap that either means real, executable dislocation between venues, or a thin order book that evaporates the moment you try to size into it. Both are plausible on a low-cap token like AKE, and the desk take is: treat the percentage as a headline, not a fill price, until you've actually pinged both books. What's notable across the full 83-event set is the recurring cast of characters — OKX, Bybit, Binance Futures, Bitunix, Gate Futures, Coinbase, Bitget, Exchange24 — showing up again and again as either the cheap leg or the expensive leg on the same handful of altcoins. That's a pattern worth watching rather than a one-off. For arb traders, today's setup rewards speed on the small-cap names (AKE, FLOCK, SAGA) where spreads open and close fast, and patience on cross-venue routing where withdrawal timing, not price discovery, is the real bottleneck.
The clearest pattern in today's 83 events is Bitunix consistently sitting on the cheap side of the trade — it's the buy leg in both AKE's top entries and in SAGA's top entry, at prices meaningfully below what Bybit, Gate Futures, or the majors are quoting. That's consistent with Bitunix's smaller market-maker footprint on lower-cap alts: fewer bots keeping its book tight to the broader market, which is exactly the environment that produces persistent (if risky) arb spreads rather than instant flash-and-gone ones. On the expensive side, Bybit shows up repeatedly as the sell leg for AKE, while Binance Futures repeatedly prices FLOCK higher than OKX spot — a pattern that looks like futures-driven premium rather than random noise, since it shows up twice in the top seven events with the same OKX-cheap, Binance-Futures-expensive shape. Coinbase's one appearance (FLOCK) is priced at a premium to Bybit Spot, consistent with Coinbase's historically slower price discovery on lower-liquidity alts relative to the Asia-heavy exchanges. If this pattern holds across the full 83-event set, the standing playbook is: watch Bitunix and OKX as your default cheap legs, and Bybit/Binance Futures/Coinbase as your default expensive legs, on this basket of small-cap names.
There's a real tradeoff on the board today between the biggest headline percentages and what you can actually fill. The AKE and FLOCK spreads in double digits are attractive on paper, but they're sitting on tokens where the top-of-book size is small — meaning a $500-1,000 clip might get filled near the quoted price, while a $10,000 clip will walk through three or four price levels and give back a third or more of the edge to slippage. SAGA's spread, while a notch smaller at 12.42%, is arguably the better size candidate precisely because SAGA has wider distribution across venues and correspondingly deeper books. The general rule for this basket: below roughly $1-2k notional, chase the highest percentage spread regardless of venue depth — the slippage impact is negligible at that size. Above $5k notional, downgrade to the spread with the best combination of percentage and known liquidity (SAGA over AKE, spot-spot over spot-futures unless you're specifically running a funded basis book). Above $20k, none of today's events look clean enough to run without splitting the order across multiple entries and accepting a materially lower realized spread than the quoted one.
Take the AKE headline trade as the worked example: 14.63% gross spread, buying at $0.060580 on Bitunix and selling at $0.062980 on Bybit. Strip out trading fees first — assume a realistic 0.10% taker fee on the buy side and 0.10% taker fee on the sell side (0.20% combined) for exchanges of this tier; some venues run cheaper maker fees but arb legs are almost always taken, not made. That brings the spread down to roughly 14.43%. Next, withdrawal cost: moving AKE off Bitunix isn't free — flat network withdrawal fees on lower-cap tokens commonly run the equivalent of 0.3-0.8% of a small-to-mid-size position, more on a small clip, less as size scales up because the fee is flat in token terms, not percentage terms. Call it 0.5% for a mid-size fill. That leaves a net spread in the 13.5-14% range before slippage. Slippage is the wildcard: on a thin Bitunix book, a $2,000 clip might cost another 1-2%, a $10,000 clip could cost 5% or more. Net-net, the realistic take-home on this specific trade for a disciplined, small-size execution is somewhere in the 10-12% range — still very good for a single-day arb cycle, but nowhere near the eye-catching 14.63% headline. General rule of thumb for this basket of exchanges: below roughly a 1.5-2% raw spread, fees and withdrawal costs alone are likely to eat the entire edge, so anything under 2% isn't worth chasing unless you're already holding pre-positioned balances on both sides with zero transfer step.
With AKE showing up twice in today's top five and FLOCK three times across the broader event set, both names look like they're in an active dislocation phase rather than a one-day fluke — worth keeping both on a standing watchlist into tomorrow's session, specifically the Bitunix/OKX-cheap versus Bybit/Binance Futures-expensive axis that dominated today's board. SAGA's Bitunix-to-Gate-Futures basis spread is also worth a repeat check, since Gate Futures funding on lower-cap perps tends to be volatile and can reopen a clean entry if it swings negative again overnight. In terms of timing, spreads on this basket have historically been widest around low-liquidity windows — late U.S. hours into early Asia session — when market-making coverage across venues like Bitunix and Exchange24 thins out relative to the majors. Arb desks running this basket should prioritize monitoring OKX-vs-Binance-Futures and Bitunix-vs-Bybit pairs specifically, since that's where today's real, repeatable structure showed up rather than in the smaller one-off spreads further down the list.
83 spreads on the board, a 14.63% headline, and a basket of small-caps doing most of the talking — good hunting, but check your books before you size in. Fees and withdrawal windows are where these trades actually live or die, not the percentage at the top of the screen.
Arbitrage Hunter — September 21, 2026