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
- Decentralizing Monopolistic Power in DeFi by Sarit Markovich examines the impact of exclusive orderflow on the block-building market and suggests alternative ways to maximize validators’ rewards.
- Anonymous Inclusion Lists (anon-ILs) by Thomas Thiery and Luca Zanolini outlines a distributed mechanism for anonymous Inclusion Lists that leverages linkable ring signatures and an anonymous broadcast protocol.
- Credibly Neutral Preconfirmation Collateral by mteam introduces a design for a credibly neutral registry for preconfirmation.
- EVM Native Sequencing Rules by Lily Johnson introduces the concept of Sequencing Rules and outlines how MEV could be reduced with a Sequencing Rule-enabled EVM.
- Building Blocks - Closed Software, Competitions by Terence Tsao discuss the negative impacts of relying on closed-source and out-of-protocol block production software in L1 consensus.
- Nyota Interop Recap by Tim Beiko recaps the interop event that gathered client teams, researchers, testing- and devops teams for a week-long sprint on Pectra, PeerDAS, and Verkle.
Posts & Threads
- Michael published a post to showcase how the MEV-Boost fork Adagio increases validator rewards by delaying the
getHeaderrequest sent to the relay.
Talks & Discussions
- Recordings from Research Day hosted by Celestia, DBA, and iqlusion have been uploaded with talks on block building, based sequencing, oracles, and more.
- End-to-end useful enclave in Gramine/Python; into to Controlled Channel attacks by Andrew Miller walks through an end-to-end application in Gramine and introduces Controlled Channel attacks.
- Indexed Podcast: Episode 7 - Staking & Restaking with Boxer, Danning Sui and hildobby discuss the latest onchain data related to staking, and restaking.
- Not An Essay: Jon Charbonneau on Composability, Stake Centralization and Bitcoin L2s invites Jon Charbonneau to talk about MEV, issuance, sequencing, and more.
- Ethereum Sequencing and Preconfirmations Call #9 invites mteam for a presentation on Credibly Neutral Preconfirmation Collateral.
Other
- Proposal: Implementing EIP-712 for Confidential Compute Requests by Ferran suggests an improvement to how Confidential Compute Records (CCRs) are signed in suave-geth by adopting the EIP-712 signature standard.
- Orderflow observability spec by brock proposes standard events for SUAPPs to establish a unified interface for observing orderflow in applications.
- Queue End Of Block Transaction OPCODE by Micah Zoltu suggests a new OPCODE to queue code to execute at the end of a block to enable block auctions and mitigate in-block front-running.
- Tx Explain: Open-Source AI Agent for EVM Transactions by Eden Network provides human-readable explanations for EVM transactions.
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