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
- Trustless payments by @BrunoMr, @Quintus, @Christoph , @boz1 and @luiscorreia provide an overview of the implications of trustless payments introduced by EIP-7732 and justify their support for the EIP.
- Enhancing the Security of Rollup Sequencers using Decentrally Attested TEEs by Giovanni Maria Cristiano, Salvatore D’Antonio, Jonah Giglio, Giovanni Mazzeo, and Luigi Romano presents a design for running a rollup sequencer inside a TEE with onchain attestations, to mitigate censorship risk and ensure execution integrity.
- Cont: Stage 1 challenge period reduction discussion by donnoh.eth examines how reducing the 7-day challenge period in Stage 1 optimistic rollups impacts resistance to economic censorship.
- Post by donnoh.eth
- EIP-7918 in Fusaka: 3 reasons and 1 trick by Anders Elowsson provides context for EIP-7918, which was activated in Fusaka to dynamically adjust blob reserve price relative to execution gas fees.
- Post by Anders Elowsson
- Post by Davide Crapis
- Three paradigms for preserving scaling under state creation repricing by Anders Elowsson detail three approaches for preserving scaling under state creation repricing related to EIP-8037.
- Achieving 10GigaGas/s EVM Execution with BAL and Parallel Execution by Po and Qi Zhou explains how prewarmed state combined with BALs removes most I/O read stalls and unlocks near-linear parallel EVM throughput.
- Load to Execution Scaling: Worldchain Case by Sunnyside Labs details benchmarking of Worldchain’s execution engine and proposes optimizations to enable increased gas limits.
- Thread by Sunnyside Labs
- Post by smstack.eth
- Introducing Presto: One-Click Crosschain Transactions Powered by Espresso by Espresso Systems introduces Presto as a cross-chain transaction framework using Espresso’s fast finality to remove reliance on solvers, committees, and bridges.
Posts & Threads
- Ethereum.org published a thread authored by Andrew B Coathup that summarizes key features of the Fusaka upgrade, including PeerDAS, 60M gas limit increase, and secp256r1 curve support.
- Vitalik Buterin published a post highlighting how PeerDAS achieves practical sharding through probabilistic data availability, marking a major milestone in scaling Ethereum.
- Sunnyside Labs published a thread detailing their contributions to PeerDAS through large-scale stress-testing, and outlines upcoming efforts to further improve blobspace and bandwidth efficiency.
- Sam Calder-Mason published a thread examining PeerDAS custody data, showing that most nodes hold the minimum column count.
- Etherscan published a thread highlighting the successful BPO1 upgrade on mainnet, increasing the number of blobs per block to target 10 and max at 15.
- Michael Tung published a post explaining that EIP-7825, which was activated in Fusaka, unlocks predictable and parallelizable ZK proving by enforcing a per-transaction gas limit.
- tcoratger published a thread summarizing progress and future roadmap on the three strategic initiatives of Protocol at Ethereum Foundation to: Scale L1, Scale blobs, and Improve UX.
- Joshua Rudolf published a post outlining recent advancements and ongoing research towards the Protocol at Ethereum Foundation strategic initiative to Improve UX, including Open Intents Framework, slot time reductions, and faster finality.
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from EthClient Summit hosted by EthStaker have been uploaded:
- Recordings from Staking Gathering hosted by EthStaker have been uploaded:
- Introduction to Issuance Curve Topics by Jérôme de Tychey
- Sustainable Scaling by Marius van der Wijden
- Validating With an ZkAttester Client by Ladislaus von Daniels
- EthPandaOps Fusaka Testing Deep Dive by Parithosh Jayanthi and Barnabas Busa
- Fast finality, Faster blocks by Francesco D’Amato
- Ethereum Through the Eyes of a Solo Staker Since the Testnets by Hudson Jameson
- Analysing Validators Performance in the Present and in the Future by Leo
- Open Source Hub: Open Privacy Stack_ ZKPs, FHE MPC, and TEEs for Builders with @Quintus, Auryn Macmillan, and Mikerah provides an overview of an open privacy stack, when to use each primitive, and how they fit together.
Fusaka Mainnet Upgrade Livestream hosted by EthStaker and ECH Institute Inc. invited speakers from across the ecosystem to detail the EIPs included in Fusaka, and what’s coming next. - Nethermind’s Fusaka Livestream hosted by Nethermind gathered researchers and core developers to cover what node operators, developers, and users should expect from Fusaka.
- Post by Nethermind
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #225 hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs discussed the client issues following Fusaka, and next steps for the Glamsterdam, and Heka upgrade.
- L2 Interop Working Group Call #17 hosted by Joshua Rudolf covered interoperable addresses, updates on Open Intents Framework, and reducing the 7-day withdrawal window for Stage 1 optimistic rollups.
- EIP-7732 Breakout Room Call #28 hosted by Justin Traglia discussed updates related to ePBS, including the new consensus spec, client implementations, and more.
- EIP-7928 Breakout #8 hosted by Toni Wahrstätter covered specification changes and client implementations related to BALs.
- What Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Unlocks invites Tomasz K. Stańczak to discuss how Fusaka improves the scalability and security of Ethereum.
- Indexed Podcast: How fast are crosschain bridges?? discuss the current state of bridges and efforts to synthetically tie together bridge inflows and outflows.
- Thread by Indexed Podcast
- Post by Danning Sui
Other
- BuilderNet v1.6 by Flashbots details the v1.6 release of BuilderNet, which focused on consolidation, performance, and protocol readiness.
- Forum post by @metachris
- Post by @metachris
- BuilderNet Incident Report: December 9, 2025 by @metachris details an incident on BuilderNet triggered by the BPO1 fork activation that led to 55 minutes of invalid blocks that were rejected by the network.
- Post Fusaka issues summary by Mario Havel summarizes the client issues that followed the Fusaka upgrade, including Prysm nodes halting and reverting back to local block building.
- Post by Prysm
- Post by Terence Tsao
- Execution Layer Fusaka Mainnet Testing by Ethereum STEEL presents their results from testing all new EL functionalities added in Fusaka, on mainnet.
- Post by Mario Vega
- Custody Compliance by ethPandaOps is a dashboard with data from continuously sampling Ethereum nodes, validating their responses against KZG commitments, and building a real-time picture of custody compliance using Dasmon.
- Blog Post by raulk, Sam Calder-Mason, Andrew Davis and Matty Evans
- Thread by ethPandaOps
- Thread by Sam Calder-Mason
- Orderflow Explorer by Allium is a dashboard that visualizes DEX orderflow across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Unichain.
- Columbia CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop 2025 hosted by Columbia-Ethereum Research Center on Blockchain Protocol Design, and Briger Family Digital Finance Lab at Columbia Business School on Dec 10-11 will bring together practitioners, researchers, and academics to discuss challenges, recent progress, and opportunities in the economics of blockchain protocols.
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