So basically the ones with the most optimized toys get all the goodies in the field? It'll be easy to make profits in the cryptocurrency market if that's the case. I'm pretty sure crypto trading bots already have those elements in their algorithms, although they cannot execute fast enough unlike HFT bots. Tons of optimization would be required to achieve the numbers of what the stock market HFT offers, and it's no easy feat IMO.
The load on the crypto market is going to be big because the fastest trading bot that I can remember was around 270,000 trades per blink of an eye, maybe if exchanges have their own infrastructures to be able to do the workload without a hitch. Isn't that the rule a long time ago, those in power get the good toys to play with?