Building an Autonomous Crypto Trading Bot

I've been spending too much time inside trading bot codebases lately. Most of them are one of two things: a 200-line Jupyter notebook that someone calls a "system," or a sprawling monorepo where the strategy logic and exchange integration are so tangled that you can't swap exchanges without rewriting half the code. A few weeks ago I went deep on AlphaStrike , a production-grade crypto perpetual futures bot. Not because the returns were headline-grabbing (though a 2.4 Sharpe is nothing to sneeze