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
- FRP-52: Trusted SILOs: Side-channel Isolated Logic Oases by @ernwa and @ml_sudo analyzes side-channel and fault-injection attacks targeting TEEs and secure chips, and presents a practical set of defenses that can be integrated into ASIC design flows.
- Slow and Steady: Preventing MEV with Verifiable Delays by Zeta Avarikioti, Dimitris Karakostas, Karl Kreder, and Shreekara Shastry explores the use of verifiable delay functions (VDF) as a defense against front-running in distributed ledgers.
- Calculus running on fumes by @hernsten reverse-engineers an arbitrage bot on Arbitrum and details how it probes pool prices, checks route profitability, and filters which opportunities are worth executing.
- Designs for EVM gas accounting in EIP-7999 by Anders Elowsson present an overview of the design space for multidimensional fee markets and outline options for Ethereum to price execution, state, and data separately while remaining compatible with today’s gas system.
- Inside Ethereum Upgrades: Hegotá by Ethlabs details their thoughts on EIP prioritization for Hegotá, with a focus on censorship resistance, faster Ethereum, native account abstraction, and continued L1 scaling.
- Thread by EthLabs
- Post by Derek Chiang
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- Post by Joshua Rudolf
- Reply by @dataalways
- Hegota, from the Protocol Architecture team (EF) by Toni Wahrstätter shares the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Architecture team’s priorities for Hegotá, including native privacy, data and state repricing, BAL sidecars, zkEVM preparation, and Quick Slots.
- ERC-4337 : Final, Not Finished by taek.eth reviews ERC-4337’s evolution into shared infrastructure for sponsored and embedded account flows, and how it differs from the original smart-account thesis.
- A Non-Monetary Argument for the Necessity of Bounded Issuance by Trenton Van Epps describes how higher staking rates may reduce the effectiveness of slashing as a deterrent and weaken Ethereum’s broader consensus guarantees.
- Data Metering, BAL Decomposition, and Bundle Pricing Under EIP-7999 by Fei Wu analyzes how charging for BALs affects execution, state use, and data fees under EIP-7999.
- A Zero-to-Hero Primer of the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) for Cross-Chain Interoperability by Mislav Javor explains how Fast Confirmation Rule uses validator attestations to reduce bridge confirmation times from roughly 15 minutes to 12 seconds, without requiring a hard fork.
- Post by Mislav Javor
- Correlated Pairs: How AMMs Win the Biggest Markets by Hayden Adams presents a path for AMMs to expand into tokenized financial markets, where correlated asset pairs may give AMMs an advantage over traditional market makers.
- Announcing the PlatĂĄberget Testnet by EthPandaOps announces the launch of PlatĂĄberget as a public short-term testnet for Glamsterdam with ePBS, BALs, and gas repricings.
- Platåberget Testnet Brings Glamsterdam Closer to Mainnet, by Yash Kamal Chaturvedi, details the launch of Platåberget as Glamsterdam’s first public testnet.
- How Privacy Boost Works #01: ZK proofs keep the money safe. TEEs make it fast. by Privacy Boost describes Privacy Boost’s hybrid ZK–TEE design, using ZK for custody and integrity and TEEs for privacy, speed, and auditability.
Posts & Threads
- Justin Drake published a post announcing a shift in Ethereum’s post-quantum roadmap from Poseidon to traditional hashes such as SHA and BLAKE, enabled by advances in binary-field SNARKs.
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post sharing thoughts on Hegotá EIP prioritization and the tradeoffs involved, with particular support for Frame Transactions, privacy-related EIPs, and gas repricings.
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post visualizing how the Glamsterdam EIPs have moved from being proposed (PFI), to considered (CFI), and eventually scheduled for inclusion (SFI).
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings of The MEV Workshop at the Science of Blockchain Conference 2026 (MEV-SBC ’26) hosted by Flashbots have been uploaded:
- Optimum Peer Turbo: A Scalable and Efficient Solution for P2P Broadcasting by Muriel MĂ©dard
- AMP: Arc Multi-Proposer Protocol with Bounded Inclusion Guarantees by Preston Vander Vos and Gordon Liao
- The Economics of Transaction Landing Under MCP by Pranav Garimidi
- Flash Boys or Superforecasters? Prediction Markets in the Wild by Danning Sui
- Volatility in Prediction Markets: A Structural Approach by Ciamac Moallemi
- Optimal Trading Speed on Blockchain by Ruizhe Jia
- EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism by Lioba Heimbach
- Panel: Predictions for the Bot Economy with @Quintus, Kollan House, Ciamac Moallemi, and @phil
- Flashnet: Protocol to Prototype by @mark and @mateusz
- A Field Guide to Agentic MEV: Emerging Problems and Methods by @jonathan
- The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms by Sam Breckenridge
- Thread by @sarah.allen
- Recordings from Berlin Ethereum Day hosted by Ethereum Everywhere have been uploaded:
- Ethereum’s Future: The Strawmap, Glamsterdam & Hegota by Paritosh
- Shipping faster forks on Ethereum by Guillaume Ballet
- Right of Audience: a case for FOCIL by Sina Mahmoodi
- Progress in Open Source Silicon and HW by Mark Davis
- L2BEAT Privacy dashboard by Sergey Shemyakov
- CROPS for the Ethereum wallet ecosystem by Polymutex and Michael
- Kohaku Updates by Kassandra
- Coordinating Ethereum by Mario Havel
- What’s next for Solidity & Argot by Jacob Czepluch
- Community Call 4 hosted by PropellerHeads details how Fynd, Turbine, and Tycho work and invites Jay Cooper to discuss propAMM data from Titan Builder.
- LIVE : The Ethereum EIP-8363 Debate invites JĂ©rĂ´me de Tychey and Mike Silagadze to debate the EIP-8363: Tapered Issuance Burn proposal which would implement a modification to the ETH issuance curve by way of a partial burn of validator rewards.
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #243, August 13, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth covered the launch of Platåberget, and discussed gas repricings and Hegotá non-headliner proposals.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #92, August 17, 2026 hosted by Justin Traglia discussed updates related to PlatĂĄberget, EIP-7610, and more.
- FOCIL Breakout #40, August 18, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song covered FOCIL testing and implementation updates.
Other
- FCR is coming!! Our views on Hegotá and Native AA. Ethlabs Week 8. by Derek Chiang summarizes updates from Ethlabs on Hegotá priorities, an upcoming production rollout of FCR, and coordination around Frame Transactions.
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