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
- Does your MEV protection work? Not always. by @boz1 highlights findings from No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks by Lioba Heimbach, Ozan Solmaz, Burak Öz, and Christof Ferreira Torres, which documents persistent sandwich attacks on multiple chains even when transactions are sent via private RPCs, OFAs, and chain-level protections.
- Priority Gas Auction Cadence and Searcher Competition: Evidence from Flashblocks on Base by Pranay Anchuri, Ed Felten, and Akaki Mamageishvili studies how the 200 ms Flashblocks on Base affect searcher bidding, competition, and the role of latency.
- Active Liquidity On Chain: Evidence from PropAMMs Across Chains by Ozan Solmaz, Lioba Heimbach, and Jason Milionis examines how propAMMs gain an edge over traditional AMMs through cheap, frequent price updates and charging different fees to different traders
- On the Geographic Incentives of Multiple Concurrent Proposers by Kushal Babel, Jason Milionis, and Eric Xue shows in a spatial model that multiple concurrent proposers (MCP) cluster when they also serve as attesters, while separating these roles can encourage geographic decentralization.
- Accountability for Encrypted Mempools by Aditi Partap and Arantxa Zapico proposes a threshold-encryption tracing framework for encrypted mempools to hold committee members accountable for leaking decryption access.
- Glamsterdam hit Sepolia. Some early numbers. by Toni Wahrstätter compares Sepolia before and after Glamsterdam activation, finding faster payload validation per unit of gas across five EL clients as the gas limit rose to 200 million.
- Very early scaling results from Glamsterdam on Sepolia by Terence Tsao reports faster beacon block processing and payload validation in the first nine hours after Glamsterdam activated on Sepolia, alongside higher average gas usage per payload.
- Post by Terence Tsao
Posts & Threads
- Barnabé Monnot published a post reporting that Quick Slots moved to Considered for Inclusion (CFI) for Hegotá, with the proposed slot-time reduction still subject to testing.
Talks & Discussions
- Staking Nerd Talk; Type 0 Deprecation, Glamsterdam, and Quantum Security discusses Glamsterdam preparations, post-quantum security, and Hegotá proposals including Frame Transactions.
- Post by Yorick Downe
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #188, October 1, 2026 hosted by Alex Stokes covered Sepolia’s Glamsterdam preparations and continued Hegotá scoping, including moving Quick Slots to CFI.
- Agenda by Alex Stokes
- Notes by Yash Kamal Chaturvedi
- Notes by Forkcast
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #99, October 5, 2026 hosted by Mario Vega covered Glamsterdam devnet updates, Sepolia upgrade readiness, and fixes to
eth_callgas limits following EIP-8037. - Frame Transaction Breakout #6, Oct 6, 2026 discussed Frame transactions devnet progress, specification changes, and plans to combine Frame Transactions and FOCIL in Hegotá devnets.
Other
- Ethlabs week 15: Ship’s getting real. by Caspar Schwarz-Schilling presents recent work by Ethlabs on FCR adoption, Quick Slots moving to CFI for Hegotá, and surveys of L2 data-availability requirements.
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