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
- No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks by Lioba Heimbach, Ozan Solmaz, @boz1 and Christof Ferreira Torres studies protected order flow across six chains, finding persistent sandwich attacks on four and details how information leaks, reorgs, and predictable trading behavior can undermine front-running protections.
- How Much Must a Private Mempool Hide? Exact Leakage Thresholds for Sandwich Attacks by Tingyi Lin, Jiazhuo Li, and Ruoran Lai derives leakage thresholds for when partial information about a trade’s size guarantees profitable sandwich attacks in a simplified AMM model.
- EVAGE: Autonomous MEV Generation and Adaptation via Multi-Agent Harness by Yan Wen, Zichun Cai, Iliya Mirzaei, Xiaohua Cai, Mohammad Javad Amiri, Haoxian Chen, and Chenyuan Wu presents a multi-agent framework that autonomously generates and adapts MEV bots across protocols and chains.
- The cryptographic world computer by Vitalik Buterin describes Ethereum’s shift from a blockchain towards a cryptographic world computer combining onchain consensus, cryptographic verification, and decentralized offchain computation.
- Chainlink Introduces CCIP 2.0, Opening the Floodgates for the World’s Capital to Flow Onchain by Chainlink announces CCIP 2.0 going live with new controls for cross-chain verification, configurable confirmation thresholds, and planned support for Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR).
- Thread by Chainlink
- Thread by Ethlabs
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- Post by Julian Ma
- Post by Derek Chiang
Posts & Threads
- Arbitrum published a thread announcing that Timeboost has been phased out on Arbitrum One, and Priority Gas Auctions and Fast Feed are now live, enabling priority-fee bidding and paid early access to ordered transaction data.
- Barnabé Monnot published a post reflecting on Ethlabs’ first three months, and their priorities for protocol development and L1–L2 coordination.
- Barnabé Monnot published a post announcing that Quick Slots has been merged as a feature spec in the Ethereum consensus specs, while noting that inclusion in Hegotá is still undecided.
- Blockspace published a thread analyzing the first week of MPBC across 3,500 multi-party blocks with 33k added transactions and 93 bps higher proposer fees.
Talks & Discussions
- Ready for Merge: EIP-8363 post mortem invites nixo.eth to discuss Tapered Issuance Burn, the trade-offs of changing Ethereum’s issuance, and the role of social consensus.
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #246, September 24, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth covered Glamsterdam testnet readiness, Sepolia’s 200M gas-limit target, and Hegotá EIP scoping.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #98, September 28, 2026 hosted by Justin Traglia discussed Glamsterdam devnet updates, Sepolia Glamsterdam preperations, 200M gas-limit target, and more.
- FOCIL Breakout #43, September 29, 2026 hosted by Jihoon Song covered FOCIL testing and implementation updates.
- Frame Transaction Breakout #5, Sep 22, 2026 hosted by Marc Garreau discussed Frame transactions devnet, specification changes, client progress, and wallet tooling.
- Agenda by Marc Garreau
- Notes by Marc Garreau
Other
- EarlyAttestationBleed Paper Review by @peg reviews EarlyAttestationBleed: Three Critical-severity Vulnerabilities of CVSS ≥ 9.0 in Confidential Computing by Muhammad Usama Sardar and Songbo Bu and the tree patched vulnerabilities in Cocos AI and Contrast involving attestation verification and workload-policy checks.
- all-Protocol update — Sept 2026 by Will Corcoran provides an update from EF Protocol covering Glamsterdam testing, Hegotá devnets, post-quantum migration plan, faster block propagation, and more.
- Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement by EF Protocol announces Glamsterdam’s October 6 activation on Sepolia, with dates for Hoodi and mainnet still undecided.
- Post by Alex Stokes
- Ethlabs is online. Week 14. by Francesco D’Amato outlines recent work from Ethlabs covering Quick Slots, Verified Fast Confirmation, Frame transactions, and blob scaling.
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