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
- Attested TLS Protocol Redesign for Scale and Performance by @peg discusses remote-attested TLS design choices, limitations found with TLS session binding, and why it is not a good fit for large, latency-sensitive CVM deployments.
- Is the slot-0 reorg cost fixable? EPBs attestation deadline study by Carlos Pérez studies slot-0 epoch-boundary reorgs, identifies slow local block-building as a main correlate, and recommends a ~3s attestation deadline for Glamsterdam.
- Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) by Vitalik Buterin surveys the current state of indistinguishability obfuscation as a route toward trustless trusted third parties, and explains why current constructions remain impractical.
- The Anatomy of Ethereum’s State Access by Ng Wei Han evaluates EIP-8295 state tiering by analyzing Ethereum state growth over time, showing that most newly written state becomes dormant while updates concentrate in a small hot set.
- Thread by Ng Wei Han
- The AMM Is Bigger Than the Swap by Designing DeFi summarizes the AMMs track at Designing DeFi Conference with papers covering energy pricing, prediction-market efficiency, and perpetuals funding.
- Values, culture, tech. Why I’m joining Ethlabs. by Barnabé Monnot describes Ethlabs as an independent Ethereum R&D lab focused on Ethereum’s core values and ETH growth.
- Markets Before Mechanisms: What traditional market structure can teach DeFi by Katia Banina frames DeFi trading mechanisms as responses to market structure, outlining how CLOBs, RFQs, PropAMMs and auctions map to different patterns of trading demand.
- Post by Katia Banina
Posts & Threads
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post summarizing Ethereum’s upcoming upgrades, from Glamsterdam’s scaling and validation changes to Hegotá, zkEVMs, PQ Ethereum, and more.
- Ethlabs published a thread summarizing their first week of operation and provides an FAQ-style overview of their priorities, workstreams, funding, and more.
Talks & Discussions
- Bankless: The New Plan to Make Ethereum Win invites Ansgar Dietrichs and Caspar Schwarz-Schilling for a conversation on Ethlabs’ mission to accelerate the next wave of Ethereum adoption by contributing to critical core R&D, and building new infrastructure and products.
- Unchained: Why Ethlabs’ Ansgar Dietrichs Says the Future of Crypto Is ‘Ethereum or No One’ invites Ansgar Dietrichs to discuss the difference between Ethereum Foundation and Ethlabs, and how Ethlabs is working to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.
- Deeply Intents: Ethereum is the future of Finance invites Markus Schmitt for a conversation on the current state of propAMMs, and the Propeller stack; Tycho, Fynd, and Turbine.
- The Rollup: Bringing Price Discovery Onchain With PropAMMs invites Fede’s intern and Kubi Mensah to discuss how propAMMs work, and efforts to increase propAMMs usage on Ethereum.
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #181, June 25 2026 hosted by parithosh covered Glamsterdam devnet updates, changes to Builder API, and Hegotá non-headliner proposals.
- Agenda by nixo.eth
- Notes by Nidhi Kumari
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #85, June 29, 2026 hosted by danceratopz discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, specification updates of EIP-8282, and more.
- Agenda by Mario Vega
- FOCIL Breakout #37, June 30, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song covered FOCIL testing and implementation updates.
Other
- Postmortem: June 25th Block Production Outage by Base Engineering Team details the two Base mainnet halts on June 25–26 caused by stale sequencer journal state and presents improvements to fuzz testing, load testing, and graceful recovery.
- EIP-8142: Block-in-Blobs (BiB) — prototype writeup by Péter Garamvölgyi outlines a prototype of EIP-8142 built on Ethrex and Lighthouse, and details open issues around KZG latency, payload-blob sizing, and blob-fee design.
- EthStaker 2026 Staking Survey: Analysis by EthStaker presents results from their survey targeting staking node operators on sentiment, motivations, and more.
- Argot and the Ethereum Foundation Complete Final Part of Funding Agreement by Argot details its role in maintaining Solidity and related tooling, outlines its funding arrangement with the Ethereum Foundation, and calls for diversified public-goods funding.
- Post by Lea
- Post by Ethereum Foundation
- Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions by Ethereum Foundation provides a primer on why governments and institutions should evaluate Ethereum as neutral, secure, public digital infrastructure.
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