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
- Priority blockspace launches for 13 million humans on World Chain mainnet by World announces that Priority Blockspace for Humans is live on World Chain mainnet, utilizing Rollup-Boost to ensure that real humans receive priority on speed, reliability, and fairness.
- Thread by World
- Thread by Steven Smith
- Thread by 0xKitsune
- Post by @bert
- Post by dcbuilder.eth
- Thread by Georgios Konstantopoulos
- MEV Is a Trap and the Smartest Bots Are the Prey by @syang explores onchain phishing attacks that target MEV searchers using malicious tokens, pools, or refund addresses to deceive and drain assets.
- Geographic Decentralisation Research Directions by @Quintus shares different viewpoints from the community on geographic decentralisation and how latency affects the behaviours of validators, builders, and searchers.
- The LVR gap for random block times: a quick and useful approximation by @Christoph approximates the effect of random slot time variance on LVR, and finds that it only influences LVR in a meaningful way if variance is within the same order of magnitude as average slot times.
- Post by @dataalways
- The paths of least resistance: Introducing WFR-Gossip by Thomas Thiery presents a p2p gossip protocol that forwards messages with 50% bandwidth reduction and 40% latency improvement compared to Gossipsub.
- Thread by Thomas Thiery
- Post by Davide Crapis
- Slot Restructuring: Design Considerations and Trade-Offs by Toni Wahrstätter argues that delayed execution via EIP-7886 offers 80% of the slot‑pipelining throughput of EIP-7732 with far less complexity and fewer CL changes.
- Scaling Ethereum: The Path to 45M Gas Limit and Beyond by parithosh and pk910 presents a technical framework to safely increase the L1 gas limit based on execution benchmarks, state growth analysis, and CL impact.
- Road to Shipping PeerDAS to Mainnet in 2025 by Jimmy Chen outlines the current state of PeerDAS development, arguing for freezing the spec, setting a tentative blob target, and avoid any further changes in order to launch on mainnet by October 2025.
- Post by Jimmy Chen
- Dual-deadline PTC vote in ePBS by Anders Elowsson proposes a dual-deadline design for the Payload Timeliness Committee (PTC) in ePBS to optimize both execution and blob propagation by separating payload and data availability checks across the slot.
Posts & Threads
- ladislaus.eth published a thread sharing publications and collaborations by EF Research from the previous week.
- Toni Wahrstätter published a post with data on attestation propagation by analyzing data from missed slots.
Talks & Discussions
- BuilderNet Call #1 hosted by James Ball featured presentations by @shea, @metachris, and Nikola Mratinić on the state of BuilderNet, decentralized block building, permissionless nodes, and more.
- Post by Nethermind
- Recordings from Protocol Berg hosted by Department-of-Decentralization have been uploaded:
- What we want from our nodes by Barnabé Monnot
- Long-term L1 Proposal: Replacing the EVM with RISC-V by Vitalik Buterin
- Modern Multi-proposer consensus implementations by François Garillot
- Standardizing Ethereum metrics: PeerDAS and FOCIL retrospective by Ekaterina Riazantseva
- The Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance in Ethereum by Luis Bezzenberger, Andreas Erwig and Marc Harvey-Hill
- At the Intersection of Data Availability Sampling and Sharded Mempools by Leo BG
- Rebased Rollups: Achieving Credibly Neutral Synchronous Composability with Low Latency and Cost by Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa
- Synchronized Priority Auctions by Alex Herrmann
- Monitoring Ethereum’s Beacon Chain for Safety and Liveness by Pavel Bautista
- Rethinking Competition Models in Solver-Based Protocols by Nadiem Sissouno and Alexander Mueller
- Forking the RANDAO: Manipulating Ethereum’s Distributed Randomness Beacon by István András Seres
- Long term capture risks in Ethereum by Trent van Epps
- Thread by Protocol Berg
- Thread by Protocol Berg
- Recordings from DappCon 25 hosted by Gnosis have been uploaded:
- State of DEX Markets- Execution Quality, Frontends, and Trends by @sui414
- Apps of Ethereum by @Tomasz
- Ethereum is for Defipunk by Hsiao-Wei Wang
- Scaling Ethereum’s L1 by Toni Wahrstätter
- Fireside Chat with Martin Koppelmann, Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin and Robin Hanson
- Panel: Ethereum Scalability by Bartek.eth and Dankrad Feist
- Reconciling decentralization and network privacy by Will Scott
- 1TS- 1 Trillion Security on Ethereum by Rahul and Fredrik Svantes
- Onchain Privacy Now by mrs kzg.eth
- Deanonymazing Ethereum Validators: The P2P Network Has A Privacy Issue by Yann Vonlanthen
- State of onchain indexing hosted by Dune invites Johnnatan Messias, @sui414, Mats Olsen, Francesco Andreoli, Andrew Hong, Shane Auerbach, and CryptoFede for a conversation on the state of onchain indexing.
- The Edge Podcast: Ethereum’s Next Chapter, According to The Foundation’s New Leader invites @Tomasz to discuss changes to the Ethereum Foundation and the focus on scaling the L1, scaling blobs, and improving UX.
- All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #159 hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs discussed the launch of Fusaka devnet-2, progress on PeerDAS, BPO forks, and headliner contenders for Glamsterdam.
- Agenda by Alex Stokes
- Post by Barnabé Monnot
- L2 Interop Working Group Call #10 hosted by Josh Rudolf featured presentations on gasless 1-click crosschain actions by Mislav, Kohaku wallet by TiTi, and based rollups and shared sequencing by Drew Van der Werff.
- FOCIL Breakout #14 hosted by Thomas Thiery discussed the latest implementation updates related to FOCIL, and the compatibility with other proposed EIPs in Glamsterdam.
- Fabric Call #006 hosted by Drew Van der Werff featured presentations on Constraints API by Jason Vranek, Gateway by Kubi Mensah, and Ethrex Based Stack by LambdaClass.
- Notes by Drew Van der Werff and Jason Vranek
- Post by Fabric
- Thread by Fede’s intern
Other
- Flashbots Research Problem Database by Flashbots aggregates some interesting research problems in MEV including completed work, early ideas, WIP, and requests for research.
- Flashbots at EthCC 2025, by Vanessa Losic highlights talks and other engagements by Flashbots at EthCC with links to recordings and relevant resources.
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