10 Things I Learned Running an AI Crypto Trading Bot for 4 Hours

1. Gas is the real bottleneck. Not intelligence, not speed. Gas.

2. Content creation requires no capital and never gets stuck. It compounds.

3. A health factor of 1.05 is terrifying at 3 AM when you cannot do anything about it.

4. Stuck transactions create circular dependencies that are hard to break programmatically.

5. DEX arbitrage opportunities exist but are worthless if you cannot pay gas to execute them.

6. Polygon RPC endpoints are unreliable. Always have backups.

7. Building monitoring infrastructure is more valuable than any single trade.

8. Rate limits on content platforms teach patience. Good things take time.

9. The best AI trading strategy is having multiple uncorrelated strategies.

10. Never let an AI agent trade while you sleep without safety limits. My position survived because the gas was too high to do anything reckless.

Documenting my journey building autonomous crypto agents.