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
- A Take on Quick Slots by @boz1 @sarah.allen, @guayabyte @BrunoMr, @Christoph, @dataalways, @Hasu, and @Quintus expresses support for gradually shortening slots under EIP-8198, citing research suggesting limited risk of geographical centralization at the proposed durations.
- Avoiding Client Disruption in Anonymous Broadcast Protocols by @peg surveys how anonymous broadcast protocols prevent malicious clients from disrupting the system, and explains how Panetière uses client-side TEEs for message integrity, prioritizing strong anonymity and low latency over bandwidth.
- Flashbots attestation verification now supports Google Cloud 'provenance checks’ by @peg details Flashbots’ integration of Google Cloud’s TDX provenance checks, allowing verifiers to confirm that an attested TDX VM is running on a registered Google Cloud host.
- Otter: A Provably MEV-Resilient Automated Market Maker via Surplus Redistribution by Elaine Shi, Mengqian Zhang, Hao Chung, and Yuhao Li introduces Otter (Optimal Truthful Trading with Excess Redistribution) as a two-asset batch AMM that achieves provable MEV resilience when the consensus layer provides censorship resilience and block space is uncongested.
- Breaking Cycles for Scalable Fair Ordering in Blockchain Systems by Jinchun He, Wangjie Qiu, Yizhong Liu, Shengda Zhuo, and Kwok-Yan Lam presents FlashOrder as a system designed to improve the speed and scalability of fair transaction ordering under contention and Condorcet-style attacks.
- The Shape of Ethereum: Six Years of Topological Anomalies by Matan Prasma and Uri Yacobi Keller applies topological data analysis to six years of Ethereum transaction data to flag anomalous periods associated with crashes, exploits, upgrades, and more.
- Blind spots of a blind arb bot by Hernán Erasmo explains how an obfuscated Arbitrum bot atomically executes multi-hop routes across different pool types using Uniswap V4’s flash accounting and nested callbacks.
- Optimal Block Time for AMM Liquidity Providers under Jump-Diffusion Prices by Nils Bundi examines how block time affects LVR, showing that faster blocks reduce LVR from continuous price movements but cannot eliminate the loss floor caused by sudden price jumps.
- Temporal Liquidity: heterogeneous demand and Ethereum’s single execution lane by Dan Guo introduces a framework for expressing transaction urgency and delay tolerance to mitigate gas races and enable time-sensitive applications.
- Equilibrium in EIP-7999’s Multidimensional Fee Market: The Execution–Data Fee-Floor Frontier by Fei Wu examines how large the data target must be to fully support higher execution targets under EIP-7999, estimating that a 300M execution target would require roughly a 77M data target under its reference assumptions.
- PropAMMs on Ethereum: the story so far by Adam Fuller analyzes Ethereum’s emerging propAMM ecosystem across venues, builders, makers, and takers.
- Faster Blocks in Ethereum by Potuz outlines splitting execution payloads into recoverable chunks to enable larger blocks, faster block times, and future BAL subnets.
- 8141 vs 8130: What Should Ethereum Enshrine Forever? by Ben Adams compares Frame transcations with EIP-8130, favoring Frame transcations because it enshrines verification and approval primitives while leaving wallets to define authority.
- How Hegotá can influence the state roadmap by Maria Inês Silva and CPerezz examines how Hegotá could keep Ethereum’s state manageable and prepare for a safe transition to the Partitioned Binary Tree state trie.
Posts & Threads
- IC3 published a thread highlighting the Shape Rotator Accelerator award recipients, and outlines how teams were evaluated across product strength, contributions to public goods, and productionized IC3 research.
- nixo.eth published a post highlighting that Frame transcations has been scheduled for Hegotá, and describes efforts to reconcile Frame transcations and EIP-8130 into a flexible account abstraction standard across L1 and L2s.
- Post by Derek Chiang
Talks & Discussions
- Credible Commitments: Prediction Markets & The Story the Data Tells invites Danning Sui to discuss prediction markets, including MEV in short-term crypto price markets, oracle resolution mechanisms, and findings from 2026 H1 Report: Flash Boys or Superforecasters?.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by Danning Sui
- Credible Commitments: Block Building & PropAMMs on Ethereum invites Kubi Mensah for a conversation on how propAMMs use rapidly updated maker quotes to tighten spreads and bring deeper spot liquidity onchain.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by Kubi Mensah
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #244, August 27, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, and narrowing Hegotá’s remaining EIP scope with Frame transcations moving to SFI.
- Agenda by nixo.eth
- Notes by Yash Kamal Chaturvedi
- Post by Pooja Ranjan
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #94, August 31, 2026 hosted by Justin Traglia covered Glamsterdam devnet progress, upcoming shadowforks, and more.
- FOCIL Breakout #41, September 1, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song covered FOCIL testing and implementation updates.
- Agenda by Jihoon Song
- Thread by Jihoon Song
Other
- GCP C3 vs C4 benchmark: Sapphire Rapids TDX and Granite Rapids with and without TDX by @pablin0x compares GCP C3 and C4 machines, showing stronger compute performance on C4 with minimal overhead from Intel TDX.
- 2026 H1 Report: Flash Boys or Superforecasters? by Danning Sui, Ally Zach and James Dai analyzes six months of Polymarket activity across users, liquidity, retention, fees, and profitability, and finds that bot-like traders drive most volume and aggregate profits.
- Ethlabs is online. Week 10. by Barnabé Monnot covers Ethlabs’ work on account abstraction, reducing block times, and formalizing decoupled consensus for faster finality.
- G* Retro / H* Prep by Will Corcoran details Protocol’s process for prioritizing Hegotá EIPs, including previous fork retrospectives, integration risk, capacity, and more.
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