With increased sophistication, bots now play a central role in shaping liquidity, pricing, and investor behavior, raising both opportunities and concerns across decentralized and centralized trading platforms alike. This section explores the rising impact of automated trading bots and on-chain activity bots in crypto markets. It covers key topics such as bot-driven arbitrage opportunities, risks of market manipulation, and emerging detection strategies. The analysis also highlights how these bots are changing the structure and behavior of trading dynamics over time.