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
- BuilderNet v1.5 by Flashbots introduces EVM caching, an even faster root hash, and trusted TLS certificates to improve the security and experience of submitting orderflow.
- ePBS handshake FOCIL compatibility by Thomas Thiery demonstrates that ePBS and FOCIL can be integrated without conflict, and highlights the key design considerations for ensuring their compatibility in practice.
- Capping Transaction Gas: Data, Impact, and Rationale by Toni Wahrstätter analyzes the impact of enforcing a transaction gas limit of 2^24 via EIP-7987 to improve DoS resistance with minimal economic impact.
- On the limits of encrypted mempools by Pranav Garimidi, Joseph Bonneau, and Lioba Heimbach analyzes various encrypted mempools designs and describes their challenges with increased latency, complexity, and trust assumptions.
- Thread by a16z crypto
- Post by Pranav Garimidi
- Supercharging Intents: Resource Locks by cyber•Fund explains how resource locks are designed to enable synchronous composability across chains in a trust-minimized way.
- Thread by cyber•Fund
- Glamsterdam’s Headliner by Mark Mackey advocates for including ePBS over other Glamsterdam candidates like Reduced slot times, Delayed execution, and FOCIL due to its maturity and implementation readiness.
- Post by Mark Mackey
- Post by Mark Mackey
Posts & Threads
- Build on Base published a post announcing that 200ms Flashblocks have been enabled on the Base Mainnet sequencer
- ladislaus.eth published a thread sharing publications and collaborations by EF Research from the previous week.
- trent.eth published a thread highlighting the rising number of nodes signaling for a 45M gas limit increase with data from GasLimit.Pics by Toni Wahrstätter
- storm published a thread describing the technical implications of the headliner EIPs proposed for inclusion in Glamsterdam.
- Phil Ngo published a thread explaining that the Glamsterdam headliner scoping phase has begun, with EIPs to be determined within the next few weeks in upcoming ACD calls.
- Post by Alex Stokes
- Mike Neuder published a thread summarizing their presentations at EthCC[8] with links to recordings, slides, and related resources.
Talks & Discussions
- Unichain Bundles Explained: Live Coding Demo (Recap) by @brock showcases how to send Unichain Bundles with advanced execution controls using the eth_sendBundle method.
- All Core Devs - Consensus #160 hosted by Alex Stokes discussed the 45M gas limit increase, fusaka-devnet-3, Glamsterdam headliner EIPs, and more.
- L2 Interop Working Group Call #11 hosted by Josh Rudolf discussed privacy-focused wallets, native rollup interoperability, and based rollups sequencing.
- Agenda by Josh Rudolf
- Notes by Josh Rudolf
- Thread by TiTi
- Thread by kevinw
- Deeply Intents: A Web of Our Own Making invites Ellie Davidson for a conversation on sequencing, interoperability, intents, and Espresso.
- Thread by apriori
- Post by Ellie Davidson
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