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
- Anonymous broadcast with auction-based scheduling by @mateusz presents novel auction-based message scheduling for Flashnet that modifies ZIPNet and leverages IBLTs to optimally allocate bandwidth and support dynamic message sizes.
- When Ahead-of-Time Allocation Fails: The Transition to Kairos by @boz1, @Christoph, and Akaki Mamageishvili share findings from their recent paper Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction: An Event Study, which studies Arbitrum’s Timeboost mechanism following the adoption of Kairos by its main users to understand how the emergence of a just-in-time secondary market affects the dynamics of an ahead-of-time primary auction.
- Ordering Power is Sanctioning Power: Sanction Evasion-MEV and the Limits of On-Chain Enforcement by Di Wu, Yuman Bai, Shoupeng Ren, Xinyu Zhang, Yiyue Cao, Xuechao Wang, Wu Wen, and Jian Liu quantifies the occurrence of Sanction Evasion-MEV, where freeze-transactions from centralized stablecoin issuers are evaded by transfer-transactions that execute earlier.
- Unblocking faster finality with decoupled consensus by Francesco D’Amato presents a design that decouples block production and finality, where the block production pipeline relies on a small randomly sampled committee, while the finality pipeline runs in parallel.
- Introducing the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) by Ethereum Economic Zone presents a framework for atomic cross-chain composability and shared liquidity between L1 and L2s.
- Sharded PIR Design for the Ethereum State by Ali Atiia and Keewoo Lee details how Private Information Retrieval (PIR) could be used to allow Ethereum users to read chain data from remote servers without the latter knowing what is being read, as an alternative to TEE+ORAM.
- Preface Research for Leaderless BFT Protocol Designs by 0xfmoi examines whether a leaderless BFT consensus protocol could address challenges related to timing games, censorship, MEV, and proposer monopoly.
- Effects of Latency Reduction on Staking Revenue by Moritz Grundei, Slobodan Sudaric-Hefner, SajZ, and Medard Duffy quantifies how reductions in block propagation latency affect Ethereum validator rewards, and finds that a 50-150ms improvement can yield 0.66–1.97% higher APR.
- PropAMM Shenanigans by 0x demonstrates how propAMMs on Base can be exploited by liquidity providers to quote users a better price than what they will actually receive.
- Post by 0x
- Thread by Will Warren
- Thread by Danning Sui
- Post by Danning Sui
- Frame Transactions Through a Statelessness Lens by Carlos PĂ©rez explains how account abstraction and Frame Transactions mempool strategies interact with stateless nodes in a post-zkEVM environment.
- Native Ephemeral Key Rotation via Frame Transactions by ABaiocchi proposes integrating ephemeral key rotation into the Frame Transactions format, without requiring a separate account abstraction layer.
- The case for Frame Transactions: Flexible Foundation with Powerful Defaults by Derek Chiang argues that Frame Transactions offers the most flexible foundation for native account abstraction, and calls for prioritizing it on the roadmap.
- Transaction Priority & Block Building on Ethereum by Cooper Duschang details how transactions flow through MEV-Boost, and the current state of the block-building market.
Posts & Threads
- Justin Drake published a post highlighting two new papers that improve Shor’s algorithm and their potential impact on cracking Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.
Talks & Discussions
- Staking Nerd Talk: ePBS, BAL, zkEVM, FOCIL, Glamsterdam, EthCC with Yorick Downe and Pathces discuss ePBS, BALs, zkEVM, FOCIL, Glamsterdam, and more.
- Ready for Merge: The Debate on FRAME by Christine D. Kim cover upcoming changes in Glamsterdan and Hegotá, Frame Transactions, and more.
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #233, March 26, 2026 hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, EIP-8070 progress, Frame Transactions, and Hegotá headliners.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #76, March 30, 2026 hosted by Barnabas Busa covered blob-devnet-0, bal-devnet-3, bal-devnet-4, and epbs-devnet-1.
Other
- Flashbots at EthCC 2026 by @vanlo provides an overview of Flashbots’ talks, panels, and events during EthCC, including blockbuilding.wtf: compute-time continuum on March 31.
- The MEV Workshop at the Science of Blockchain Conference 2026 (MEV-SBC ’26) by @sarah.allen announces MEV-SBC ’26, hosted on July 30th at Stanford University, to highlight important MEV research done in the past year and talks that will illuminate a new round of research problems the community should prioritize.
- EP-8198 - Quick Slots by Carl Beekhuizen explains how Quick Slots is designed to reduce slot duration from 12 to 8 seconds, and outlines the benefits for users.
- EthUX by Ethereum Foundation maps Ethereum UX challenges and tracks solutions and their adoption.
- Thread by jakubk.eth
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- Account Abstraction Link Tree by lightclient aggregates important contributions to account abstraction over the years with links to EIPs, ERCs, research, and more.
- Post by lightclient
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