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
- 2 Million Protect Users by @shea reviews the three-year history of Flashbots Protect, providing over 2 million accounts with enhanced privacy, reduced gas costs, and MEV refunds.
- Setting Your Pet Rock Free by Ropirito, @sxysun , @socrates1024 , karan4d, Roshan, and dillonrolnick details the technical implementation of TEE_HEE, a fully autonomous AI agent with exclusive control over its Twitter and Ethereum accounts, made possible by TEEs.
- We Know the Truth of AI Agent by Phala Network details the role of TEEs and remote attestation in securing autonomous AI agents like TEE_HEE.
- Technical Analysis of Tee Hee: A TEE-based Autonomous AI Agent by Johnson Lai analyzes the technical architecture of TEE_HEE to autonomously manage Twitter and Ethereum accounts without human interference.
- Post by Johnson Lai
- RediSwap: MEV Redistribution Mechanism for CFMMs by Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, and Fan Zhang presents RediSwap as an AMM designed to capture MEV and redistribute it fairly among users and LPs.
- The Policy and Legal Implications of Inclusion Lists by Proof of Stake Alliance reviews the policy and legal implications of inclusion lists and how they might affect Ethereum’s neutrality and regulatory compliance.
- Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge by Vitalik Buterin describes Ethereum’s roadmap for “The Purge,” a set of initiatives aimed at minimizing storage requirements and protocol complexity to ensure long-term efficiency and stability.
- Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 6: The Splurge by Vitalik Buterin details Ethereum’s “Splurge” roadmap and ways to improve the EVM, account abstraction, EIP-1559, and more.
- Based Rollup Economics by Taiko Labs analyzes the economics of based rollups, with a focus on Taiko’s approach to sequencing and MEV distribution.
- Mainnet is live by Josh Bowen announces the launch of Astria’s mainnet alpha, designed to support rollups with shared, permissionless sequencing.
Posts & Threads
- @metachris published a post to announce that Flashbots’ geth-based block builder has been deprecated as efforts are now directed towards rbuilder.
- @stephen continued the series of threads exploring successful searcher strategies:
- Albicodes published a thread to highlight some of the recent work by @socrates1024 and @sxysun like Dstack, Teleport, and Bobu’s Magic Show.
- PBS Foundation published a thread to share a curated list of resources related to inclusion lists.
- Suhail Kakar published a post to summarize Vitalik Buterin’s recent posts covering Ethereum’s roadmap.
Talks & Discussions
- Infinite Jungle: The Most Pressing Challenges to Solving the MEV Problem invites @bert and Lily Johnson to dive into the details of Rollup-Boost and EIP-7727.
- Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why? by @boz1 summarizes findings from the paper by @boz1, @sui414 , Thomas Thiery, and Florian Matthes.
- Enhancing Ethereum’s Decentralization and Security with MEV BooTEE by Oana Barbu presents an integrated builder-relayer design that utilizes a TEE to construct blocks comprising a builder’s ToB (Top of Block) and a proposer’s RoB (Rest of Block).
- Is synchronous composability overrated? with Vitalik Buterin, protolambda, Brecht Devos, and Ben Fisch discuss the benefits and trade-offs of synchronous composability between rollups.
- ETHStaker: Community Call #46: Commit-boost invites Drew Van der Werff and Kubi Mensah for a presentation and Q&A on Commit-Boost.
- EIP-7732 breakout room #12 invites Francesco for a presentation on their ePBS/DAS/FOCIL all-in-design.
Other
- Golden source of TEE collateral by @mateusz describes the importance of establishing a unified, onchain collateral management system for TDX - TCBInfos, PCS, and the like.
- Key Management Protocol For Decentralized Root-of-Trust by Shunfan Zhou and Hang Yin
outlines a key management protocol for Decentralized Root-of-Trust (DeRoT) to improve the security and resilience of TEEs. - Extending Blob Txs to FOCIL by Terence Tsao details how FOCIL could be extended to support blob transactions, and the implications for the network.
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