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
- Mitigating Adverse Selection in Concentrated Liquidity AMMs with Dynamic Fees: An Agent-Based Model Approach by Daniele Maria Di Nosse and Fabrizio Lillo develops an agent-based Uniswap v3 simulation to examine whether dynamic fees can offset LVR and improve LP hedged profitability.
- The EF’s new structure by Ethereum Foundation details an organizational restructuring, revised priorities, and reduced headcount as part of the implementation of the Mandate and the Treasury Management Policy.
- A native zkEVM scales bandwidth, not just execution by Mike Neuder presents a mechanism for placing block contents inside blobs so native zkEVM block validation can support higher gas limits without requiring validators to fully download larger blocks.
- Repurposing FOCIL as an L2 forced transaction mechanism by donnoh.eth introduces a forced transaction mechanism via FOCIL to bypass L2 sequencers without modifying the state transition function or introducing new transaction types.
- Validator Redirected Revenue by Clément Lesaege proposes a protocol-level funding mechanism that redirects a portion of staking rewards to ecosystem funding.
- Properties of issuance offsets and increased penalties under low/zero/negative issuance policies by Anders Elowsson examines the effects of low, zero, and negative Ethereum issuance policies on validator rewards, penalties, and minority discouragement attacks.
- Scaling in Hegota: using the ETH transfer to anchor execution and bandwidth by Maria Inês Silva analyzes gas-limit constraints after Glamsterdam, and proposes a scaling plan for Hegotá that raises the gas limit to 450M with a 6s PTC deadline.
- Turbine: Settle large trades at zero spread by PropellerHeads presents a private batch-settlement protocol for large onchain orders that follow external market prices and use patient matching to reduce spread and price impact.
Posts & Threads
- Ethlabs published a thread announcing their mission as a non-profit lab to accelerate the next wave of Ethereum adoption by contributing to critical core R&D, and building new infrastructure and products.
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- Post by Ansgar Dietrichs
- Post by Julian Ma
- Post by Caspar Schwarz-Schilling
- Post by Sharplink
- Post by Konstantin Lomashuk
- Ethereum Foundation published a thread describing Ethereum stewardship as a shared coalition effort, highlighting Ethlabs, EthApps Guild, EEZ, and Argot as organizations strengthening adoption, composability, R&D, and tooling.
- Bastian Aue published a post outlining the Ethereum Foundation’s execution strategy for implementing its Mandate across MEV, privacy, staking, access-layer infrastructure, institutional adoption, and spinout funding.
- Luganodes published a thread outlining Glamsterdam’s role in scaling Ethereum L1, focusing on ePBS, BALs, and repricing changes that make a 200M gas limit viable for validators.
Talks & Discussions
- Deeply Intents: PropAMMs are eating DeFi invites @Quintus for a conversation on propAMMs, CEX-DEX arbitrage, orderflow segmentation, block building, and more.
- Recordings from Dappcon 2026 hosted by Gnosis have been uploaded:
- Recordings from Futura Camp have been uploaded:
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #239, June 18, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, gas-repricings, Hegotá non-headliner proposals, encrypted mempools, and more.
- Agenda by nixo.eth
- Notes by Nidhi Kumari
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #84, June 22, 2026 hosted by Justin Traglia covered updates from bal-devnet-7, glamsterdam-devnet-5, glamsterdam-devnet-5 and discussed specification changes and client implementations.
- Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) #9, June 23, 2026 hosted by Will Corcoran discussed specification, client implementations, and testing of Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR).
- Encrypt The Mempool #6, Jun 24, 2026 hosted by Justin Florentine discussed LUCID’s CL integration, test tooling, AA use cases, and more.
Sign up here if you’d like to get The MEV Letter straight to your inbox!
Explore previous editions via The MEV Letter explorer