How to Build an Arbitrage Bot with a Swap API

Crypto arbitrage bots generated over $500 million in extracted value on Ethereum alone in 2024, and DEX trading volume across EVM chains exceeded $1.76 trillion that same year. The opportunity is real, but most tutorials drown you in smart contract ABIs, router addresses, and multi-library setups before you can even fetch a price. This guide takes a different approach: you will build an arbitrage bot using a single GET request to a swap API, skipping all the contract-level complexity. By the end