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
- Frames are all you need by lightclients outlines how Frame Transactions could support expiry, privacy pools, transaction assertions, account sweeping, and signature aggregation without new transaction types.
- Post by lightclients
- Post by Vitalik Buterin
- Post by Toni Wahrstätter
- Mempool Account Transaction Capacity from Historical Activity (MATCHA) by Thomas Thiery proposes a local mempool policy for admitting several Frame Transactions from one sender while limiting DoS risk.
- How Hegotá should approach gas repricing by Maria Inês Silva reviews Hegotá’s proposed gas repricings and recommends a narrower scope over broader metering reforms to not delay the upgrade.
- From 60M to 200M: simulating Glamsterdam’s fee market by Maria Inês Silva models how Glamsterdam’s gas repricing and gradual gas limit increase to 200M could affect base fees and block utilization.
- EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List by Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster presents their prioritization of the 62 proposed Hegotá EIPs, emphasizing FOCIL, Frame Transactions, and Quick Slots.
- EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities by Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster details their multi-fork priority list and makes the case for Hegotá to stay narrowly scoped to preserve the December 2029 target of post-quantum Ethereum.
- Letting the base fee be a midpoint: a temporal liquidity authorization for EIP-1559 by Dan Guo proposes a transaction field that lets users exchange later placement within a block for subsidized gas fees, funded by users paying for earlier placement.
- Wen fast payload broadcast? Segment, code, push, pull, and everything in between by Csaba Kiraly explores how segmented payload broadcasting with smaller, independently verifiable pieces could support larger payloads and shorter slots.
- Millions flowing through 20 bytes of code by Hernán Erasmo examines a replay vulnerability in proposer payments and the minimal contract builders adopted to address it.
- Commit-Boost after ePBS by Commit-Boost explains how ePBS changes builder payments, bid selection, and validator configuration while retaining optional roles for relays and out-of-protocol sidecars such as Commit-Boost.
- Post by Commit-Boost
Posts & Threads
- Vitalik Buterin published a post explaining how recursive STARK mempools via EIP-8288 could reduce onchain verification and data costs while supporting new signature schemes, privacy protocols, and private account abstraction.
- Post by Derek Chiang
- Vitalik Buterin published a post connecting Frame Transctions, Keyed Nonces, and recursive STARK mempools, and explains how separating validity checks from transaction actions could help Ethereum scale.
- Post by Derek Chiang
- Derek Chiang published a post reporting that the efforts to unify Frame transcations and EIP-8130 into a shared account abstraction standard for both L1 and L2 have not been successful.
- Post by Taek Lee
- Post by Mislav Javor
- @dmarz published a thread detailing a BuilderNet-inspired LLM router that uses TEEs to compare responses from multiple inference providers, and share revenue from inference traces with the user.
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post reviewing the proposed Hegotá EIPs and recommends a narrow focus on privacy and security to limit complexity and avoid delays.
- Anders Elowsson published a post presenting a rationale for EIP-8372, which allows state pricing to be adjusted to demand without changing state-growth capacity.
- Barnabé Monnot published a post reviewing Ethereum attestation timings from 2025 to today, reporting faster attestation propagation with the early-arrival group growing from roughly 50% to 80%, providing more room to shorten slots and faster confirmations.
Talks & Discussions
- Credible Commitments: Ethereum & The Case For Fast Slots invites Barnabé Monnot for a conversation on Ethlabs and their work on Quick Slots, FCR, L1–L2 interoperability, and more.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #245, September 10, 2026 hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs discussed Hegotá scoping, confirming Frame transcations as the EL headliner ,and narrowed the remaining EIP candidates.
- Agenda by nixo.eth
- Notes by Forkcast
- Notes by Yash Kamal Chaturvedi
- Post by EtherWorld
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #95, September 7th, 2026 hosted by danceratopz discussed updates from Glamsterdam devnets, client stability, proposed specification changes, and more.
- Frame Transaction Breakout #4, Sep 8, 2026 covered specification changes, client implementations, and testing related to Frame Transctions.
Other
- Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026 by Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster announces a new AMA on r/ethereum on September 16 with researchers answering questions on Glamsterdam, Hegotá, and beyond.
- How do arbitrage bots discover AMM pools outside known factory lists? by Poolbase outlines an early-stage dataset of AMM activity across EVM chains starting with Base.
- AA collab, faster Ethereum, learning from L2s. Ethlabs week 11. by Derek Chiang presents Ethlabs’ recent work to reconcile EIP-8130 and Frame Transctions, roll out FCR, advance shorter slots, and improve L1–L2 interoperability.
- Ethlabs is online. Week 12. by Barnabé Monnot covers Ethlabs’ Hegotá priorities, efforts to make Ethereum faster, and ways to improve account abstraction and cross-chain interoperability.
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