The MEV Letter is a weekly collection of papers, articles and resources related to MEV. The intention of this letter is to provide a comprehensive summary of the latest research, discussions, and developments in the space, with links for further reading.
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Papers & Articles
- Optimism Partners with Flashbots to Accelerate Sequencing for Every OP Stack Chain by Optimism announces a partnership with Flashbots to bring fast, configurable, and verifiable sequencing to the Superchain, making advanced block building features accessible to the OP Stack.
- Fast, Configurable, and Verifiable Sequencing is Coming to Every OP Stack Chain by Flashbots presents a partnership with Optimism to make sequencer customization a first-class platform feature for builders.
- Protocol Update 002 - Scale Blobs by Alex Stokes, Raúl Kripalani, and Francesco D’Amato outlines a series of incremental upgrades to Ethereum’s blob architecture through PeerDAS, BPO forks, bandwidth optimizations, and more.
- SCOPE - Synchronous Composability Protocol for Ethereum by Jason Vranek presents a protocol for synchronous composability, enabling contracts on Ethereum L1 and L2 to execute atomically.
- Parallel Auctions on Commit-Boost by Chanyang Ju introduces State Lock Commitment as a blockspace commitment mechanism for proposers to auction exclusive state rights.
- Dual Flow Batch Auction by Jeff Bezaire outlines a batch auction mechanism that segregates maker and taker orders to improve execution, and mitigate latency arbitrage.
Posts & Threads
- @dmarz published a thread reframing censorship resistance via two real-world examples of transaction inclusion needs.
- Test in Prod (Sunnyside Labs) published a thread sharing results from fusaka-devnet-4, in collaboration with ethPandaOps and Base.
- Post by Base Build
- Post by smstack.eth
- Post by Ben Edgington
- ladislaus.eth published a thread sharing publications and collaborations by EF Research from the previous week.
- tcoratger published a thread summarizing Scaling Ethereum L1 by Ansgar Dietrichs at Frontiers, which presented work by the Protocol workstream focused on Scaling L1.
- Zach Rynes published a post detailing how Chainlink SVR, integrated into BuilderNet, refunded a user 34 ETH in liquidation MEV in a single transaction.
- cyber•Fund published a thread highlighting two publications resulting from their MVI Grants on Ethereum issuance:
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from Pragma New York 2025 hosted by ETHglobal has been uploaded:
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #163 hosted by Alex Stokes discussed the upcoming fusaka-devnet-5, and Glamsterdam planning.
- Agenda by Josh Davis
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #49 hosted by Mario Vega discussed findings from fusaka-devnet-4, BPO forks, Glamsterdam testing, and more.
- Agenda by Mario Vega
- Zero Knowledge Podcast: Ethproofs, zkVM Benchmarks & the Unstoppable Rise of ZK invites Justin Drake for a conversation on real-time proving, zkVM benchmarks, and ETHproofs.
- EthStaker: Community Call #59: ePBS and FOCIL invites Potuz, Terence Tsao, and Jihoon Song to discuss ePBS and FOCIL.
Other
- Trillion Dollar Security Initiative – Phase 2 by Ethereum Foundation details the next phase of the Trillion Dollar Security Project focusing on wallet standards, transaction transparency, and a database of smart contract vulnerabilities.
- builder-specs v0.6.0 Dark Forest by Ethereum Foundation includes updates for Fusaka, a new v2 getPayload API, and SSZ-related updates.
- Post by Bharath Vedartham
- Post by Alex Stokes
- The Native Rollups Book by donnoh.eth collects specifications and design ideas related to native rollups.
- Thread by donnoh.eth
- EIP-7732 Amendment: Pipelining without Optionality by Conor McMenamin describes an amendment to ePBS that removes optionality but preserves the pipelining benefits of the original design.
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