Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. Art: Grant Kempster
Some of the largest fortunes in crypto have been made through arbitrage plays. Some of them were lying in plain sight but too difficult to execute; others were hidden.
Think of Arthur Hayes or Sam Bankman-Fried. Arbitrage was exactly how they were able to bankroll the launch of their respective exchanges. After that, though, the two founders’ trajectories have taken pretty different turns. The former pleaded…