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
- Shill-Proof Auctions by Andrew Komo, Scott Kominers and Tim Roughgarden investigates how certain auction formats deter sellers from placing fake bids to inflate prices, and identifies the Dutch auction as the only format that effectively prevents such manipulation.
- Block-auction ePBS versus Execution Ticket by Terence Tsao compares ePBS and ET by outlining their similarities and differences.
- Analysis on ”Correlated Attestation Penalties” by Toni Wahrstätter analyzes correlated attestation penalties and their impact on today’s staking landscape.
- Towards an implementation of based preconfirmations leveraging restaking by cairo presents an exploratory implementation of a based preconfirmations protocol, inspired by the proposal by Justin Drake.
- Blob publishing post mortem by Benjamin Hunter details the collaboration between bloXroute and the Lighthouse team to address the recent bug that caused Lighthouse nodes connected to bloXroute’s BDN service to miss multiple slots.
- Geth Out-of-Order EIP Application Denial-of-Service by iosiro details a vulnerability identified by Jason Matthyser in geth and suave-geth, and the mitigation steps taken.
- Beyond the Stars: An Introduction to Execution Tickets on Ethereum by ephema provides an introduction to execution tickets.
Posts & Threads
- Xinyuan Sun published a thread to announce the Agentic Markets workshop at the ICML Conference on July 26-27th in Vienna, Austria.
- Request for SUAPP: Coprocessor for Base by Xinyuan Sun outlines how SUAVE can be used as a private shared state coprocessor for rollups like Base.
- Kubi Mensah published a thread that reiterates Titan’s commitment for their relay to be open and accessible to all builders, and not vertically integrated.
- Stat Arb published a thread sharing their journey from executing arbitrage strategies to becoming a market maker.
- Eric Forgy published a thread that details a way to mitigate impermanent loss through rebalancing pools with the use of post-trade prices.
Talks & Discussions
- BUIDL Asia 2024 hosted by KryptoPlanet:
- Panel: The Business of Staking with Xinyuan Sun, Brian Crain, Zaki Manian, and moderated by Amanda Cassatt discusses MEV and the latest developments in the staking landscape.
- Panel: The World of Chain Abstraction with Vitalik Buterin, Illia Polosukhin, Dean Tribble, Adrian Brink, and moderated by Zaki Manian explores chain abstraction, multi-domain apps, and intent-based architectures.
- The Future of Account Abstraction by Vitalik Buterin presents the history of account abstraction, key challenges, and future directions.
- Indexed Podcast: Blobscription and Base’s meme szn, $DEGEN & L3 (and Easter egg!) with Boxer, Danning Sui and hildobby discuss recent onchain data, blobscriptions, meme coins, and more.
- Infinite Jungle by Christine Kim:
- Blocks Go Missing On Ethereum, Who’s to Blame? summarizes ACDE #184, and invites Verity Coltman to talk about shared sequencing, cross-chain UX, and Espresso.
- Lighthouse Bloxroute Make Amends, Electra Devnet Incoming summarizes ACDC #131, the recent bug in the bloXroute BDN service, and Electra EIPs.
- Ethereum Sequencing and Preconfirmations Call #5 hosted by Justin Drake invites Cooper for a presentation on the potential transition of Aztec to a based rollup and the implications on performance, sovereignty, and governance.
- Ethereum Validator & Node Operator Summit hosted by EthStaker, Staking Rewards, and bloXroute Labs:
- 12 Seconds: Who Gets What, When, and How in a Slot by Eyal Markovich provides details of the MEV supply chain, timing games, and bloXroute’s BDN network.
- Decentralize or Bust: Ethereum’s Battle Against Censorship with Mike Neuder, Max Resnick, Alex Stokes and ballsyalchemist discuss the staking landscape, censorship resistance, and more.
Other
- Based Preconfs FAQ by Rohan Shrothrium and Samuel Laferriere provides information on based rollups and based preconfirmations.
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