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People running arb bots with OpenClaw are playing with fire.

And most of them don’t even realize it yet.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth.

These agents need wallet permissions.

Not read-only.
Real signing.

Now combine that with:
> code written on the fly
> shell commands
> third-party skills from random GitHub repos
> LLMs that happily hallucinate logic

You’re not getting hacked.
You’re authorizing your own drain.

One malicious skill.
One compromised update.
One prompt injection telling the bot to rebalance.
Funds gone. Clean. Irreversible.

Second issue nobody talks about: execution risk.

Polymarket arbs are NOT atomic.
You don’t click one button and lock profit.

Leg A fills.
Leg B slips.
Liquidity disappears.
Price jumps 3-5 cents.

Congrats - you’re now holding exposure you never wanted, with size, in a market that will happily punish you.

Third: latency delusion.

Moltbot feels fast because it’s automated.

But you’re competing with:
> colocated servers
> Rust bots
> private RPCs
> guys who see the book before you do

By the time your agent reacts, the arb already closed.
You just paid fees and slippage for leftovers.

And the worst part? false safety.

Bots make small wins look smooth… until one bad fill wipes weeks of PnL in a minute.

My rule (same one I gave months ago):
Moltbot = research, alerts, monitoring.
Auto-execution with size = donation.

If you ignore this, the market will teach you fast.