We will, in fact, see the identical sort of arbitrage with AMMs, albeit in a barely completely different type. Suppose you heard about SHIB early and also you needed to purchase some earlier than it was obtainable on a centralized alternate. As a result of it’s not on an alternate you referred to as on an Ethereum-based AMM (SHIB was created on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token), and also you clicked the buttons to make your buy of SHIB tokens. If you make that order, it will get thrown into a giant batch of proposed Ethereum transactions. A few of these transactions may very well be individuals shopping for stuff on-line with USDC, however a lot of them are trades for tokens like SHIB or WIF or PEPE.