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
- Scaling the DA layer with Blob Streaming by QED, Francesco D’Amato, and Julian Ma propose enshrining continuous, sampled pre-propagation of blob data alongside the existing blob lane to increase throughput and censorship resistance for blobs.
- The Ethereum Foundation’s Commitment to DeFi by Charles St. Louis and ivangbi announces a new App Relations Team at Ethereum Foundation to support permissionless, censorship-resistant, and secure DeFi on Ethereum.
- Thread by Charles St. Louis
- Thread by ivangbi
- Post by Vitalik Buterin
- Empirical Analysis of Price Elasticities for Ethereum State and Burst Resources by Maria Inês Silva presents an empirical demand analysis of EIP-8037, measuring the price elasticity of aggregate demand and the allocation between state creation and burst resources.
- Optimal Aggregation Functions for EIP-8037 Under Empirical Elasticities by Maria Inês Silva combines results from aggregation functions under different elasticity regimes and the empirical estimation of price elasticities to design an optimal aggregation function and repricing multiplier for EIP-8037.
Posts & Threads
- Vitalik Buterin published a thread sharing a summary of the Protocol Priorities Update for 2026 and the 3 new Protocol tracks: Scale, Improve UX, Harden the L1.
- Vitalik Buterin published a post framing security as minimizing the divergence between user intent and the actual behavior of the system, and outlines how redundancy can be used for risk reduction.
- smstack.eth published a thread detailing the multiple EIPs considered for inclusion in Glamsterdam related to gas repricings.
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from ETHDenver 2026 has been uploaded:
- MEV and the Limits of L2 Scaling by @dmarz
- From Solana to the EVM: A New Path for Proprietary AMMs by @optimus
- Ethereum: The Next Chapter by Alex Stokes
- Ethereum as a Platform for L2s by Tomasz K. Stańczak
- From Charts to Decisions: When Onchain Data Actually Matters with Danning Sui, James Chenyang Wang, Dingyue (Kite) Liu, and Arnaud Simeray
- Ethereum’s Evolution: Fusaka, Glamsterdam, and Beyond by Preston Van Loon
- Inside Glamsterdam: How EIP-7732 Redefines Ethereum by Terence Tsao
- The Case for Fast Finality by Ellie Davidson
- Fast Mainnet UX With Pre-confirmations by Murat Akdeniz
- The New Age of Scaling: Ethereum, EVM, and Beyond with Ria Riaz, Tomasz K. Stańczak, Jay Jog, and Ben Jones
- Post Quantum Money with Tomasz K. Stańczak and Jerome de Tychey
- Fireside: Decentralized AI and Ethereum with Tomasz K. Stańczak
- Execution Sharding Through Native Rollups by donnoh.eth
- Security Blindspots Beyond L2s by donnoh.eth
- Scaling & P2P by Csaba Kiraly
- Roads Toward Ethereum Privacy by Andy Guzman
- Protocol Priorities Livestream hosted by Ethereum Foundation invites Christine D. Kim, Raúl Kripalani, Fredrik Svantes, Barnabé Monnot, and Thomas Coratger to present the 3 new Protocol tracks for 2026: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.
- EF Denver Summit hosted by Ethereum Foundation is a livestream recording with presentations on protocol research, AI, and new frontiers.
- Zero Knowledge: Introduction to Lean Ethereum invites Justin Drake to unpack lean Ethereum, including post-quantum cryptography, faster finality, and enshrined zkEVM.
- The Coordinate Podcast: Ethereum’s quantum leap: Lean Ethereum invites Justin Drake to discuss how lean Ethereum aims to deliver faster finality, increased throughput, post-quantum security, and more.
- Thread by Soubhik Deb
- Post by Sreeram Kannan
- Bankless: Ethereum’s Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM invites Ansgar Dietrichs for a conversation on how zkEVM will scale Ethereum by enabling block verification via proofs, rather than re-execution.
- CBER Forum: Innovations in Decentralized Exchanges invites Alan Wu to give a talk on MEV Tax for UniswapX on PGA Blockchains, and Max Resnick to present Prop AMMs: the new market structure emerging In Solana’s dark forest.
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #175, Feb 19, 2026 hosted by Alex Stokes discussed Glamsterdam devnets, and confirmed FOCIL as the CL-headliner for the Hegotá upgrade.
- Agenda by nixo.eth
- Post by Alex Stokes
- Post by Thomas Thiery
- Post by Vitalik Buterin
- Post by Jihoon Song
- Notes by Christine D. Kim
- Notes by Yash Kamal Chaturvedi
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #71, February 23, 2026 hosted by Mario Vega shared updates related to blob-devnet-0, bal-devnet, epbs-devnet, EIP-8037, and more.
- Agenda by Mario Vega
- FOCIL Breakout #29, February 24, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song discussed updates related to the implementation, testing, and tooling for FOCIL.
- Agenda by Jihoon Song
- Thread by Jihoon Song
- Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) breakout room #03 | Feb 17, 2026 hosted by Will Corcoran covered specification, client implementations, and testing of Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR).
- Encrypt The Mempool #0, February 18, 2026 hosted by Justin Florentine discussed Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool (UEEM) and LUCID: Encrypted mempool with distributed payload propagation.
- Glamsterdam Repricings #2, Feb 18, 2026 hosted by Maria Inês Silva covered updates related to EIP-2780, EIP-8037, and EIP-7976.
Other
- Keep Ethereum’s Validator Set Decentralized by Blockspace Forum recounts how MEV-Boost achieved fast widespread adoption, and continues to process 90% of Ethereum transactions.
- Treasury Staking Initiative by Ethereum Foundation reports that they have begun staking approximately 70,000 ETH in line with their Treasury Policy to help fund its stewardship of the ecosystem.
- Ethereum Should Enshrine Private Transfers (+ Demo!) by Tom Lehman argues that Ethereum should focus on native privacy and enshrine private transfers into the protocol.
- Protocol Support provides an overview of the work done by the Protocol Support team at Ethereum Foundation.
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