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.
Papers & Articles
- Mini-Blocks: SSV-Backed Sub-Slot Auctions for Ethereum PBS by Matheus Franco and Gal Rogozinski presents a design for sub-slot auctions using existing MEV-Boost infrastructure and SSV Network to run several top-of-block-like auctions per slot.
- RANDAO Breaks at L*: A Post-Quantum VRF for Ethereum by Aria Naraghi proposes a replacement for Ethereum’s BLS-based randomness with a hash-based post-quantum VRF to make RANDAO quantum-resistant.
- Concave is the New Linear: The Impossibility of Anti-Plutocratic DAO Governance by Austin Bennett, Preston Vander Vos, Duc V. Le, and Mira Belenkiy analyzes how anti-plutocratic DAO voting rules such as Quadratic Voting can be manipulated by Sybil attacks.
Posts & Threads
- @Quintus published a post announcing that BuilderNet now supports Priority updates, enabling propAMMs and other smart contracts to have certain interactions prioritized over others within the same block.
- IC3 published a post announcing the start of the Shape Rotator accelerator hosted by IC3, Flashbots, The Convent, and Blockchain Builders Fund for advanced cryptography and AI builders to turn research into products.
- Akaki Mamageishvili published a thread summarizing the paper Timing Games: Probabilistic backrunning and spam by @BrunoMr, @Christoph, and Akaki Mamageishvili, which examines equilibrium strategies of capturing backrunning opportunities, and was accepted to ACM EC’26.
- Chainlink published a thread announcing that Smart Value Recapture (SVR) now supports multiple orderflow auctions in parallel, including Flashbots and Titan.
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post explaining how BALs will enable parallelized execution, faster block validation, and increased block gas limits.
- marc published a thread highlighting 8 EIPs that are scheduled for inclusion in Glamsterdam following ACDE #236.
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from Blockbuilding.wtf: Compute-Time Continuum hosted by Flashbots has been uploaded:
- DeFi in the Compute-Time Continuum by @Quintus
- New Information First by Andrea Canidio
- EIP8212: BSTORE/BLOAD Block-Scoped Transient Storage by Mo Nokhbeh
- Spam by @BrunoMr
- Strong Chain Quality Transaction Landing Under MCP by Pranav Garamidi
- Real World Use Cases for Programmable Blocks by Nir Magenheim
- The Value of Programmable Orderflow by Markus Paulson-Luna
- Forum post by @vanlo
- Fireside chat with Vitalik, Joe Lubin, and Vlad Novakovski hosted by Lighter invites Vitalik Buterin, Joe Lubin, and Vlad Novakovski for a conversation on high-performance applications, ZK rollups, the future of DeFi, and more.
- Post by Vlad Novakovski
- Post by Lighter
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #80, May 18, 2026 hosted by danceratopz discussed updates from Glamsterdam devnets, scoping of glamsterdam-devnet-5, and more.
- FOCIL Breakout #34, May 19, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song, covered FOCIL testing and implementation updates.
Other
- Blocknative joins Deloitte by Blocknative announces that Blocknative has joined Deloitte, and that both their API services and Gas Network will be sunset on June 19, 2026.
- Thread by Blocknative
- Post by Matt Cutler
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