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
- Blockspace Under Pressure: An Analysis of Spam MEV on High-Throughput Blockchains by Wenhao Wang, Aditya Saraf, Lioba Heimbach, Kushal Babel, and Fan Zhang presents a framework for analyzing spam MEV on high-throughput low-fee blockchains, and studies how block capacity, gas prices, and fee mechanisms determine its prevalence and impact.
- Post by Lioba Heimbach and Kushal Babel
- The L2 Fee Vault: Pricing L1 Costs with Feedback Control by Lin Oshitani and Ulysse Pavloff evaluates fee formulas and controller designs for pricing L1 costs on L2s using simulations based on historical L1 base/blob fee data.
- The Functional Layers of Non-Custodial Wallets and DeFi Interfaces by @ryager outlines common methods for non-custodial wallets and DeFi interfaces to sign, route, and broadcast user-initiated actions.
- What is “Finalized” in Ethereum? | Canonical Reorgs & Reflections by Potuz describes what state is actually protected by Ethereum finality, and explains how, under ePBS, a finalized checkpoint does not necessarily finalize the associated payload state.
- Gloas Range Sync by Potuz examines whether Glamsterdam can reduce bandwidth during node recovery sync after downtime.
Posts & Threads
- raulk published a thread presenting ethp2p, and proposing 4 non-headliner EIPs for Hegotá to optimize network bandwidth and reduce latency.
Talks & Discussions
- Bankless: Will The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) Rebuild $ETH Dominance? invites Martin Koppelman and Friederike Ernst to present Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) as a framework for atomic cross-chain composability and shared liquidity between L1 and L2s.
- ETHGlobal: Fireside Chat with Jordi on EEZ with Jordi Baylina explains how real-time ZK proving enables synchronous cross-chain communication through the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ).
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #234, April 9, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, Hegotá non-headliner proposals, account abstraction proposals, and more.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #77, April 13, 2026 hosted by parithosh covered updates from blob-devnet-0, bal-devnet-3, epbs-devnet-1, and debug RPC.
- Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) #6, April 14, 2026 hosted by Will Corcoran discussed specification updates, client implementations, and testing of Fast Confirmation Rule.
- Glamsterdam Repricings #6, April 15, 2026 hosted by Maria Inês Silva covered EIP-8037: State Creation Gas Cost Increase, and EIP-8038: State-access gas cost update.
Other
- ERC-8218: Builder Discovery by @canercidam suggests standard interfaces for registering and discovering block builders via on-chain registry contracts, as one of many non-competitive potential discovery methods following the activation of ePBS in Glamsterdam.
- What Emerged from the Blockspace Forum Workshop in Cannes by MP recaps discussions from Blockspace Forum Cannes related to relay block merging, sub-slot execution, multi-relay coordination, and more.
- Checkpoint #9: Apr 2026 by Protocol Support Team shares a high-level summary from recent ACD calls, focusing on Glamsterdam devnets, Hegotá headliners, and gas limit testing.
- Staff Statement Regarding Broker-Dealer Registration of Certain User Interfaces Utilized to Prepare Transactions in Crypto Asset Securities by The Staff of the Division of Trading and Markets (“Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) provides views on broker-dealer registration requirements under the Exchange Act for persons that create, offer, or operate Covered User Interfaces used in crypto asset securities transactions.
- EIP-8141 Frame Transaction by Pedro Gomes explains the design of Frame Transaction as a general framework for account abstraction use cases.
- Post by Pedro Gomes
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