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Buy spot, short the perpetual future, and collect the funding payment that longs make to shorts. The position has no price exposure, so the yield looks free, until the two legs sit on different venues and one of them liquidates you.
Supply liquidity to an automated market maker, short the resulting token exposure with a perpetual future, and you are left with a clean bet, swap fees against the money arbitrageurs take out of the pool. Hedging removes the direction but not the loss.
Searchers are bots that find profitable transaction orderings, arbitrage, liquidations, sandwiches, and bid for the right to have them included. Finding the opportunity is the easy half; the auction that follows takes most of the money.
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