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
- An analysis of attestation timings in a 6-s slot by Maria Inês Silva analyzes block and attestation propagation times to evaluate the feasibility of 6-second slots, as proposed in EIP-7782.
- Post-Pectra Effects on Ethereum: Reorg Rate, Propagation, and Block Size by Decipher examines how Pectra affected network performance, showing a slight reduction in reorg rates and improved propagation times.
- Who wins liquidity provision and how? Evidence from the Uniswap Protocol by Alphaist evaluates the profitability of LPs in Uniswap v3’s ETH–USDC 5bps pool, revealing that a small number of actors using JIT strategies captured the majority of profits.
- Thread by Nyx Foundation
- Post by Alphaist
- Gossipsub’s Partial Messages Extension and Cell Level dissemination by Marco Munizaga presents a proof-of-concept for Partial Message Extension in Gossipsub, showing a significant reduction in bandwidth and latency.
- The End of Reordering Slippage: Introducing Placement Commitments by Bernardo Magri, Murat Akdeniz, and Christian Matt introduces an extension to mev-commit preconfirmations that enable bidders to specify where in a block their transaction should be placed.
- Decentralising CoW solver auctions using pod network by Shresth Agrawal proposes a decentralized design for CoW Protocol auctions using Pod Network to eliminate single points of failure and improve censorship resistance.
Posts & Threads
- @boz1 published a thread highlighting how cross-chain arbitrage has been on the rise since the end of last year.
- ladislaus.eth published a thread sharing publications and collaborations by EF Research from the previous week.
- Marissa Posner published a thread introducing Ethereum Interop Layer, designed to enable trust-minimized interoperability across rollups without relying on trusted intermediaries.
- Barnabé Monnot published a thread outlining progress on upgraded interoperability across Ethereum via shorter slot times, faster finality, and more.
- Post by Vitalik Buterin
- Post by Jihoon Song
- Thread by lincoln.base.eth
- tcoratger published a thread summarizing the Ethereum Foundation’s work to Improve UX and establish a seamless experience across the ecosystem.
- Alex Nezlobin published a thread highlighting how an LP deployed an $80M bid wall in a single 1bp tick, resulting in $300K in markouts for arbitrage bots within two hours.
- mteam.eth published a thread outlining the Lean Consensus Roadmap for Ethereum to reach 10k TPS on L1 and 10M TPS on L2, with real-time zkVMs and faster finality.
- mteam.eth published a thread outlining how Deterministic proposer lookahead pre-calculates and stores a deterministic proposer lookahead in the beacon state at the start of every epoch, scheduled for inclusion in Fusaka.
Talks & Discussions
- L2 Demo day July 2025 by @dmarz highlights a collection of demos showcasing recent improvements and explorations related to Rollup-Boost and the L2 block building space:
- Testing Custom Builders with the Builder SDK by @karim
- Extending Contender to MeasureCrosschain Latency on OP-Interop by @brock
- Improving Flashblock Timing and Availability by @solarmithril
- Decentralizing P2P Flashblock Propagation by Eric Woolsey
- Custom Bundles and Execution Logic using rblib by @karim
- Reproducible TDX Images For L2 Builders by @hulbert
- Introducing Blob Support in Contender by @brock
- Deploying Bundles With Revert Protection On Unichain by @ash
- Flashblocks in Production: Lessons from Base Mainnet by Cody Wang
- Rollup Boost Meets pod: Censorship-Resistant Verifiable Priority Auctions by Shresth Agrawal
- Thread by @dmarz
- A Structural Analysis of MEV Boost Auctions by Mallesh Pai presents findings from Structural Advantages for Integrated Builders in MEV-Boost by Mallesh Pai and Max Resnick, which analyzes how integrated searcher-builders outcompete neutral builders through CEX/DEX arbitrage.
- leanConsensus, call #7 | leanMultisig specs hosted by Justin Drake discussed leanMultisig spec, leanVM design, PQ interop, and more.
- Agenda by Will Corcoran
- Thread by Will Corcoran
- Thread by tcoratger
- Post by Vitalik Buterin
- Deeply Intents: Ethereum Is All You Need invites 0xprincess for a conversation on the MEV competition today, ePBS, TOOL, and more.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by 0xprincess
- The Gwart Show: CRYPTOMOMMY (SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce) invites
Hester Peirce for a conversation on the US crypto regulatory landscape, governance tokens, and MEV. - The Rollup TV: Ethereum Is Based invites Tomasz K. Stańczak, Luis F. Goh, Simon Jones, Murat Akdeniz, Edward Li, Jacob Everly, Mara Schmiedt, Sreeram Kannan, Amrit Kumar, and Harry Gao to dive into the based rollup ecosystem, cross-chain interoperability, and more.
- Post by The Rollup
- L2 Interop Working Group Call #13 hosted by Joshua Rudolf discussed Ethereum Interop Layer, The Open Intents Framework, ERC3643, ERC-7806, and more.
- Agenda by Joshua Rudolf
- Notes by Joshua Rudolf
- Thread by Joshua Rudolf
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #164 hosted by Alex Stokes covered fusaka-devnet-3 syncing issues, next steps for fusaka-devnet-5, and Ethereum Protocol Upgrade Process.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #52 hosted by Barnabas Busa discussed Fusaka devnet updates, Glamsterdam testing, and more.
- FOCIL Breakout #19 hosted by Jihoon Song covered the latest development updates related to FOCIL.
- Agenda by Jihoon Song
- Thread by Pooja Ranjan
Other
- Dstack Community Call #1 hosted by Flashbots_X and Phala brought together contributors, builders, and explorers of Dstack to share ideas, showcase demos, and discuss the future of confidential computing.
- Reth v1.7.0 by Paradigm includes native Flashblocks support for OP Stack chains, support for Fusaka, performance improvements, and more.
- On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs by IC3 revisits the post from 2018 by @phil, Tyler Kell, lan Miers, and Ari Juels and discusses its influence on DAO governance research.
- Sunnyside Devnet Report - Sep 8 by Test in Prod (Sunnyside Labs) outlines their deployment of Chaos Mesh in fusaka-devnet to simulate adversarial conditions and monitor recovery behavior.
- Ethereum Roadmap: Fusaka by Ethereum Foundation outlines the EIPs included in Fusaka to improve scaling, security, and UX.
- Lean Ethereum Specifications by leanEthereum is an effort to create the simplest possible specification for Lean Ethereum Consensus.
- Forkcast: Protocol Calls by marc aggregates recordings, transcripts, chat logs, and timestamps for ACDE-, ACDC-, and ACDT-calls.
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