The MEV Letter #64

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

Posts & Threads

  • PBS Foundation published a thread to highlight content from Devcon SEA related to protocols, MEV, and auction design.
  • Gideon published a series of posts diving into topics related to the intersection of TEEs and blockchains:
  • 0xprincess published a thread announcing TOOL by NuConstruct that’s using TEEs to process orderflow privately and provide 1-second sub-slots with execution guarantees.
  • CoW DAO published a thread detailing a multi-block MEV attack that exploited CoW Protocol’s OrderBook API, and steps being taken to mitigate the information leakage.
  • libevm published a thread explaining how searchers exploit logs_bloom to execute blind sandwich attacks, bypassing protections such as MetaMask’s smart transaction feature.
  • Doug Colkitt published a thread detailing how sniper bots are exploiting Clanker’s UniV3 NFT deployment on Base to preemptively snipe new pools causing excessive transaction spam, and suggests ways to resolve the issue.
  • bolt published a thread announcing that bolt has been deployed on the Holešky testnet to enable permissionless proposer commitments.
  • Jarrod Watts published a thread describing the current state of PBS and how EIP-7805 is designed to improve censorship resistance.
  • Anders Elowsson published a thread to illustrate how an automated gradual reduction down to a new reward curve over a period of 1-2 years could look like.
  • 0age published a thread detailing The Compact by Uniswap designed for reusable resource locks to address inefficiencies in cross-chain swaps.
  • Titan Relay published a thread outlining new access requirements for the TopBid websocket stream in Titan Relay.

Talks & Discussions

Other


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