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.
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Papers & Articles
- From Competition to Centralization: The Oligopoly in Ethereum Block Building Auctions by Fei Wu, Thomas Thiery, Stefanos Leonardos, Carmine Ventre explore builders’ strategic bidding incentives in MEV-Boost auctions, focusing on how advantages in network latency and access to MEV opportunities affect builders’ bidding behaviors and auction outcomes.
- Introducing Smart Value Recapture (SVR): A Chainlink-Powered MEV Recapture Solution For DeFi by Chainlink introduces Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR), enabling dapps to recapture MEV derived from their use of Chainlink Price Feeds, leveraging MEV-Share.
- Understanding Based Rollups: PGA Challenges, Total Anarchy, and Potential Solutions by Davide Rezzoli analyzes the total anarchy method for sequencing blocks in based rollups such as Taiko.
- Spectrum of Based Rollups by JĂĽnger explores the trade-offs and composability spectrum of different based rollup approaches.
Posts & Threads
- Raghav Agarwal published a post outlining Primev’s mev-commit protocol designed to enable robust guarantees for preconfirmations, instant cross-chain bridging, and more.
Talks & Discussions
- The Rollup: Rollup-Boost, Unichain, And TEEs invites @Hasu and @bert for a conversation on Unichain, Rollup-Boost, BuilderNet, TEEs, and how the space might evolve from here.
- Post by The Rollup
- Thread by SOSE
- Bell Curve: The State of Liquid Staking, GOOSE-2, and Lido v3 invites @Hasu to discuss the current state of liquid staking, GOOSE-2, Lido v3, and more.
- Post by Bell Curve
Other
- How Concentrated Liquidity in Uniswap V3 Works by RareSkills details how Uniswap v3 implements concentrated liquidity to enhance capital efficiency and reduce price impact.
- Post by RareSkills
- The Hidden Mechanics of Ethereum’s Builder Market: From Technical Arms Race to Order Flow Empire by EigenPhi highlights discussions from their second space on the current state of the builder market.
- zeromev-core by zeromev has been open-sourced, allowing anyone to run their own instance of zeromev.
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