Preprint
Sep 2026
When AI Agents Meet MEV: Cross-Chain Arbitrage in the Agentic Economy
We study cross-chain arbitrage when autonomous AI agents, rather than humans or bots, are the searchers. We model agents as both arbitrage extractors and Maximal Extractable Value targets, derive the optimal trade size for a risk-averse agent under mean-variance utility with stochastic bridge delays, and formalize mult...
Wei Ye, Jing-Yan Xu, Yuan-Hong Wu
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