KuCoin Triangular Arbitrage Bot in Rust
Rust project to implement zero-risk crypto trinagular arbitrage, explore technical feasiblity of generating passsive income (i.e. sleep to earn!).
How the arbitrage works
Say we hold USDT, it checks all the coins(e.g. ETH) that can trade against BTC and USDT, and compare the profit by either:
- Buy-Sell-Sell: buy ETH (sell USDT), sell ETH (buy BTC), sell BTC (buy USDT)
- Buy-Buy-Sell: buy BTC (sell USDT), buy ETH (sell BTC), sell ETH (buy USDT)
Previous mistakes in Python
2 years ago I have made a python script that runs the triangular arbitrage in KuCoin, but it had several technical issues and ended up not following up.
https://github.com/kanekoshoyu/Kucoin-Triangular-Arbitrage
- Implementation with Python and REST polling was way too slow to obtain the valid arbitratge chances for execution.
- Generally the Python REST API caused quite high rates of communication error, which took extra time for resorting.
- It didn't count the actual size of the arbitrage order, which meant that the script kept buying some shitcoin and could not sell properly.
- It simply took the mean price instead of best bid/ask, which means it took maker positions for each of three actions in one arbitrage, and did not execute arbitrage promptly.
How to run
Copy config.ini.sample as config.ini and replace the API key with your own KuCoin API credentials.
cargo run --bin XXX
/bin and main.rs are the executable source code.
/globals has the lazy_statics that is used across the code. Technically it is better to pass Arc and Mutex around the functions instead of using global statics, but I just wanted the code to be a bit more readable with this way.
Major Structural Improvements
- Use compiled Rust code for neat, efficient and proper code
- WebSocket subscription of real-time order books to get all the latest maker/taker ask/bid
- Only take a taker position based on the latest best-bid/ask price/size
- Implement both data bandwidth monitor and arbitrage performance monitor as tasks
- Modularize the subscription sync and arbitrage strategy selections, to make it more generic
Feature Progress List
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Whitelist all coins that can trade against two other quote coins (e.g. ETH, for ETH-BTC, ETH-USDT) | Available |
| Look for arbitrage chance based on best ask/bid price and calculate the profit in percentage | Available |
| Copy and sync local orderbook in real-time | Pending |
| Execute on the arbitrage | Pending |
| Resort against trade execution that could not complete as anticipated | Pending |
| Structurally allow multiple strategies to run in pararrel | Pending |
To-dos
- Allow variants of triangular arbitrage to run concurrently. (e.g. all taker v.s. Maker-Taker-Taker with profit monitor, selection of multiple quote coins, spot vs futures)
- Wrap the runtime as a local service which can talk with other components in the network
- Add a Qt/WebAsssembly GUI which visualises the arbitrage situation