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
- To Wait or To Probe: Arbitrage Competition on High-Throughput Blockchains by @m1kuwill and @boz1 studies arbitrage competition on high-throughput blockchains and models how protocol design affects competition between targeted and probabilistic arbitrage strategies.
- Forum post by @m1kuwill and @boz1
- Thread by @m1kuwill
- Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey by @sarah.allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen, Maryam Bahrani, Samuel Breckenridge, Aaron Buchwald, Christian Cachin, Andrés Fábrega, Jared Fernandez, James Hsin-yu Chiang, Marwa Mouallem, Roi Bar-Zur, Neil DeSilva, Ittay Eyal, Giulia Fanti, Ari Juels, @socrates1024, Christian Sillaber, Dani Vilardell, Pramod Viswanath, Wenhao Wang, Matt Weinberg, @syang, Jianzhu Yao, and Fan Zhang surveys the evolving crypto - AI intersection, assessing how AI can improve blockchain systems, how crypto can secure AI pipelines, and which open research questions remain unresolved.
- Trustless payments and relays by @Christoph, @0xSybil and Minghao Pan analyzes how ePBS changes Ethereum block auctions, with trustless in-protocol payments constraining relay design and shifting builder competition toward sealed first-price bidding.
- The Whys Behind Ethereum’s Consensus Design by Luca Zanolini outlines the design philosophy of Ethereum consensus, and explains how separating block production from finality helps avoid halts and recover automatically.
- The Beacon API Is Lying to You About Validator States by MigaLabs explores how the deposit pipeline works, and proposes updates to the Beacon API to improve accuracy.
- Liquidity You Can Compose With: Why (Onchain) CLOBs Beat RFQ as DeFi Infrastructure by Grigory Prelovskiy compares CLOB and RFQ as liquidity architectures for onchain perps, arguing that CLOB is the better foundation for composable and synchronous markets.
Posts & Threads
- IC3 published a thread highlighting a presentation by @socrates1024 during IC3 Blockchain Camp 2026 on the state of TEEs, private inference, and hardware.
- IC3 published a post sharing project updates from Shape Rotator hosted by IC3, Flashbots, The Convent, and Blockchain Builders Fund for advanced cryptography and AI builders to turn research into products.
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from ETHCluj 2026 have been uploaded:
- Maintaining Ethereum’s Future by Cheeky Gorilla
- Understanding Glamsterdam by Milos Stankovic
- Panel: L2s: Scaling Ethereum in Practice with Sinkas, Krzysztof Urbański, Andrei Duma and Jan Gorzny
- Panel: Why Privacy Is Still Hard and Will It Improve with Roxana Nasoi, Mike McCabe, Robert de Groot, Steffen Kux and Gavin Birch
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #238, June 4, 2026 hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs discussed updates from Glamsterdam devnets, Hegotá non-headliner proposals, and more.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #82, June 8, 2026 hosted by Mario Vega covered updates from bal-devnet-7, glamsterdam-devnet-5, and discussed specification changes and client implementations.
- Encrypt The Mempool #5, June 10, 2026 hosted by Justin Florentine discussed the latest updates related to LUCID encrypted mempool.
Other
- Private Transfers Analysis by Privacy Stewards of Ethereum is a dashboard that compares privacy-focused transfer protocols.
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