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
- One Node, Two Roles: Simultaneous Contests for Validation and Attention in Rollups by Pranay Anchuri, Ben Berger, Matteo Campanelli, and Akaki Mamageishvili models rollup validation and attention rewards, deriving conditions for sustaining independent node operators despite incentives to register multiple identities.
- Ethereum PropAMMs: today and tomorrow by Mike Neuder and Maryam Bahrani describes how propAMMs rely on trusted builders and how their growth on Ethereum could raise builder entry barriers, and potentially lower proposer MEV revenue.
- Actionable Signals in Prediction Markets: Evaluating Public and Private Information through Systematic Trading by Oriol Saguillo, Fabio Giacomelli, and Lucianna Kiffer analyzes historical Polymarket trades to assess signals for automated agents, finding net losses from risk arbitrage and only a small remaining profit from large positions.
- The unleashed power of stacking EEZ & FCR seen through an example by Carlos Pérez illustrates how EEZ’s atomic rollup-to-L1 execution could be combined with FCR’s conditional fast confirmation to support checkout in roughly two slots.
- Informed Diffusion: making home builders publish fast by Csaba Kiraly proposes a block propagation protocol that helps home builders with limited upload bandwidth publish faster, narrowing their latency disadvantage.
- Rapidblocks, take two: a pipelined consensus for independent blocks by Csaba Kiraly outlines a preliminary pipelined consensus design targeting 2-second Ethereum slots, allowing block production to overlap validation of earlier blocks.
Posts & Threads
- dmarz published a thread detailing research on how agent swarm topologies affect coordination and task performance.
- Justin Drake published a post warning that AI advances in math could threaten ECDSA and recommend a controlled migration to new addresses whose public keys have not been revealed by signing transactions.
Talks & Discussions
- Credible Commitments: Ethereum - ePBS, PropAMMs, & ETH invites Mike Neuder to discuss ePBS ’s scaling benefits, the growth of propAMMs, and arguments against MEV burn and changing ETH issuance.
- Ready for Merge: Understanding ePBS through the Lens of Game Theory invites Mike Neuder to explain how ePBS gives validators more time to process blocks, why relays and trusted payments may persist, and The Free Option Problem.
- Post by Ready for Merge
- Thread by Mike Neuder
- All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #247, October 8, 2026 hosted by nixo.eth covered Sepolia’s successful Glamsterdam fork, scheduled Hoodi’s activation for October 26, and discussed EIPs for Hegotá.
- All Core Devs - Testing (ACDT) #100, October 12, 2026 hosted by Justin Traglia covered preparations for Glamsterdam’s activation on Hoodi, node hardware requirements, and Hegotá devnet planning.
Other
- Does my MEV protection work? by Lioba Heimbach, Ozan Solmaz, @boz1, and Christof Ferreira Torres enables users to explore sandwich attacks on protected transactions across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Tron, accompanying their recent article Does your MEV protection work? Not always.
- Glamsterdam is a data monster by Sam Calder-Mason and Andrew Davis presents newly available datasets following Glamsterdam’s activation on Sepolia, covering builder bids, payload delivery, and block-level state changes.
- Blobs by L2BEAT is a live dashboard of Ethereum blob activity, showing data posted by individual projects and blob usage for each block.
- Actually, AI makes crypto better. Ethlabs Week 16. by binji reviews Ethlabs’ recent work on AI-assisted protocol research, FCR adoption, and Quick Slots reaching Considered for Inclusion status for Hegotá.
- The cryptographic world computer by Ethereum Institutional visualizes The cryptographic world computer by Vitalik Buterin, which outlines a vision of Ethereum combining onchain consensus, cryptographic verification, and decentralized offchain computation.
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