On April 14 the bot made 12 real execution attempts on DOT/USDT, detecting price gaps of 0.18% to 0.35% between OKX and Kraken.
The attempts didn't capture — the bot was still minutes too slow, and by the time it reached for each gap, the gap had closed. But they answered the only question that mattered at this stage: does the opportunity actually exist on these exchanges, in real conditions, repeatedly? Yes. Definitively.
Everything since has been about closing the distance between seeing an opportunity and capturing it — which turned out to be the hard part, and the subject of most of the work that followed.
Bot activity — not financial advice.