cortex-ai-quant/crypto-arbitrage-bot-automated-trading

This repository describes itself as an AI powered cryptocurrency arbitrage system that automatically finds and profits from price differences across exchanges and blockchain networks including Solana, TON, Ethereum, and centralized exchanges like Binance, OKX, and Bybit. Arbitrage means buying an asset where it is cheaper and selling it where it is more expensive, pocketing the price gap. The README, written mostly in Chinese with some English, markets the tool with claims of execution speeds under 45 milliseconds, protection against MEV attacks (a way other automated bots can intercept and front run trades on a blockchain), and a large language model based reasoning layer for market analysis. It also states a 97.4 percent win rate and shows dashboard screenshots as evidence, though none of these figures can be independently verified from the README alone. A closer read raises real concerns. The primary way to obtain the software is not by building from the Python source in this repository, but by downloading a compiled Windows executable from a separate GitHub release hosted under a different account name than the one this repo belongs to. The README is also stuffed with long lists of unrelated search keywords in both Chinese and English, a pattern common in listings designed to rank in search results rather than to document real software. The repository itself was created only shortly before this description was written. These are common warning signs seen in low credibility or outright scam crypto trading bot listings on GitHub. Anyone considering this project should be skeptical of the performance claims, avoid running the downloadable executable, and never provide exchange API keys with trading or withdrawal permissions to unaudited third party software.