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
- Rise of AI Agents by @tesa explores AI agents frameworks and the steps toward agentic AI with emerging standards like MCP and OAuth 3.0 for secure and collaborative agentic AI ecosystems.
- Aave Integrates Chainlink SVR on Ethereum Mainnet to Recapture Liquidation MEV and Increase Protocol Revenue by Chainlink; BGD Labs; Aave Chan Initiative announces Aave DAO’s integration of Chainlink SVR to recapture MEV derived from their use of Chainlink Price Feeds, leveraging MEV-Share.
- Expanding Mempool Perspectives by Toni Wahrstätter questions the necessity of local builders to uphold censorship resistance and liveness when open and permissionless PBS can provide strong guarantees.
- A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap by Vitalik Buterin outlines the state of L2 security and finality, and presents a hybrid ZK-TEE-OP architecture for rollups to reach Stage 2.
- Paths to SSF revisited by Barnabé Monnot explores trade-offs between supporting solo stakers via the Orbit path, or simplifying the protocol through a capped validator set in order to achieve SSF.
- A Protocol Design View on Statelessness by Julian Ma details how Ethereum can support continued state growth without overburdening validators via full or partial statelessness.
- EIP-7918: Blob base fee bounded by execution cost by Anders Elowsson proposes a modification to EIP-4844 that enforces the price of the targeted number blobs to stay above the price of a simple blob-carrying transaction.
- Is ZK-MPC-FHE-TEE a real creature? by Lisa Akselrod presents an overview of privacy primitives, and explores how combining these technologies can enable verifiable and private computation for dapps.
- App-Specific Sequencing: How Apps Can Retain Their Generated MEV & Provide Better UX by Pavel Paramonov explores how App-Specific Sequencing is designed to enable dapps to control transaction order, retain MEV, and optimize UX without a dedicated app-chain.
- Robust Preconfirmations via Zero-Knowledge Proofs by Bernardo Magri and Christian Matt describes a new ZK-proof mechanism in mev-commit that prevents providers from opening fake commitments that bidders cannot access.
Posts & Threads
- PBS Foundation published a thread detailing their continued commitment to advance Ethereum’s PBS ecosystem by supporting core PBS infrastructure, fund research, and foster collaboration.
- @dataalways published a thread detailing transaction activity trends and block usage in Ethereum and Bitcoin.
- Ladislaus.eth published a thread sharing publications and collaborations by EF Research from the previous week.
- Lin Oshitani published a thread introducing EIP‑7917, which adds a
proposer_lookahead-field to the beacon state for storing a deterministic proposer lookahead for the next epoch. - Lin Oshitani published a thread answering frequently asked questions related to EIP‑7917 and implementation of the deterministic proposer lookahead.
Talks & Discussions
- Unchained: How Ethereum’s Sprawling Pectra Upgrade Will Help It Compete invites Alex Stokes and Barnabé Monnot to discuss Pectra, Fusaka, and recent leadership changes at the Ethereum Foundation.
- Post by Laura Shin
- EIP-7870: H/w and Bandwidth Recommendations with Parithosh, Toni & Kev - PEEPanEIP#145 invites parithosh, Kev, and Toni Wahrstätter to present EIP-7870 which specifies hardware and bandwidth recommendations for different types of Ethereum nodes.
- Fabric Call #002 invites Lin Oshitani and Justin Drake to present the design of EIP‑7917 to pre-calculate and store a deterministic proposer lookahead in the beacon state at the start of every epoch.
- Post by Fabric
- Post by Gustavo Gonzalez
- FOCIL Breakout #7 hosted by Thomas Thiery covered recent progress on FOCIL including rebasing efforts, interop testing, and client implementation progress.
- Agenda by Thomas Thiery
- Notes by Jihoon Song
- Talking Intentionally Episode 16 invites Joshua Baker for a conversation on intents, the evolving role of solvers, and Aori.
Other
- blob/acc in 2025 by Alex Stokes outlines a phased deployment strategy for scaling blob throughput after Fusaka via blob-parameter-only (BPO) forks.
- Post by Alex Stokes
- TLDR March Newsletter by The Latest in Defi Research highlights recent publications and ongoing research from TLDR-fellows.
- DAS.wtf by Will Corcoran aggregates videos, articles, and other resources related to DAS on Ethereum.
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