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
- When AI Agents Meet MEV: Cross-Chain Arbitrage in the Agentic Economy by Wei Ye, Jingyan Xu, and Yuanhong Wu studies how autonomous AI agents perform cross-chain arbitrage, and how their trade sizing, adaptive routing, and randomization affect profitability and front-running risk.
- ETH-TraceBench: A Large-Scale Event-Stream Benchmark for Ethereum DeFi under Temporal, Protocol, and Contract Shift by Kemal Kirtac and Carsten Maple introduces an event-log benchmark for DEX transaction classification and liquidation detection under temporal, protocol, and contract shifts.
- When Data Binds Execution: Dynamic Simulation of EIP-7999’s Multidimensional Fee Market by Fei Wu studies how BAL data costs, data limits, and propagation time affect EIP-7999 throughput.
- Post-Glamsterdam One-dimensional Fee Market and Comparison with EIP-7999 by Fei Wu compares post-Glamsterdam execution and state growth under one-dimensional fee mechanisms and EIP-7999.
- It’s time for a Faster Ethereum: what the ecosystem has to say about EIP-8198 by Ethlabs summarizes ecosystem feedback on Quick Slots, and outlines the benefits for UX, market efficiency, censorship resistance, and cross-rollup composability.
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- Post by Julian Ma
- Post by Derek Chiang
- Post by Mislav Javor
- Quick blocks without quick slots by Potuz details an alternative to Quick Slots using multiple payloads per slot, and examines the trade-offs related to confirmation guarantees and multi-block MEV.
- Things That Help Shorter Slots by Terence Tsao describes ways to shorten slots, including faster propagation, pipelined execution, and reduced validator workloads.
- Post by Terence Tsao
- Multi-Party Blocks Are Live on Ethereum Mainnet by Blockspace Forum announces the mainnet launch of Multi-party block construction (MPBC), allowing transactions from additional builders to be appended to blocks while preserving the existing PBS auction.
- Towards Encrypted Mempools from Threshold IBE without Batching by Gottfried Herold outlines an encrypted mempool design without batch decryption, fixing inclusion and ordering before key release while highlighting unresolved cryptographic requirements.
Talks & Discussions
- Milk Road: Ethereum’s Next Upgrade Could be The Most Bullish One Ever invites Julian Ma, Derek Chiang, and binji for a conversation on Quick Slots, account abstraction, privacy, and Ethlabs.
- The Edge Podcast: Private DeFi Is Coming: Why Privacy Is Ethereum’s Next Frontier | Lean Ethereum invites Thomas Thiery to discuss the state of onchain privacy, Ethereum’s privacy roadmap, and what it could unlock for DeFi.
- Thread by DeFi Dad
- Post by Thomas Thiery
- Credible Commitments: Blockspace & Multi-party block construction for Ethereum invites Drew Van der Werff for a conversation on Commit-Boost’s role after the transition to ePBS, and the design of Multi-party block construction (MPBC) by Blockspace Forum.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by Drew Van der Werff
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #187, September 17 2026 hosted by Alex Stokes covered updates from Glamsterdam devnets, testnet scheduling, and Hegotá non-headliner scoping.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #97, Sept 21, 2026 hosted by danceratopz discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, testnet scheduling, and preliminary Hegotá devnet planning.
- Encrypt The Mempool #10, September 16, 2026 hosted by Justin Florentine discussed the latest updates related to EIP-8184: LUCID encrypted mempool.
- FOCIL Breakout #42, September 15, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song covered FOCIL testing, Devnet-0 readiness, and compatibility with Frame Transactions.
Other
- Security Advisory: Storage Aliasing in Priority Update Registry V1 09/15/26 by @Quintus details a vulnerability in Priority Update Registry that enabled unauthorized price updates, with no evidence of exploitation found.
- [AMA] We are EF Protocol (Pt. 15: 16 September, 2026) hosted by Protocol at Ethereum Foundation answered questions on Ethereum’s roadmap, scaling, privacy, post-quantum security, staking economics, and more.
- Ethlabs Week 13: A faster L1 ecosystem survey; should we keep scaling blobs?; AA gets concrete migration paths by Mislav Javor outlines the recent work by Ethlabs on gathering ecosystem feedback on Quick Slots, blob-target planning, account abstraction, and more.
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