Systemic Arbitrage Viability

Definition

Systemic Arbitrage Viability denotes the measurable capacity of an electronic market to sustain profitable price convergence strategies across fragmented cryptocurrency exchanges and derivatives venues. It functions as a diagnostic metric, assessing whether price discrepancies between spot and futures instruments remain wide enough to cover execution costs, slippage, and capital deployment risks. Market participants rely on this state to identify profitable windows where synthetic replication or cross-exchange hedging yields net positive returns after accounting for transaction fees and funding rate adjustments.