2026 crypto reading list

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- MEV/relays/PBS
  + link. "What Emerged from the Blockspace Forum Workshop in Cannes" by 0x3hu79
  + link. "When frontrunning is alchemy" by dataalways
  + link. "Wait" by Blockspace Forum
  + link. "Network Anonymized Mempools" by Flashbots
  + link. "decentralized building: wat do?" by Flashbots
  + link. "DPaaS: Improving Decentralization by Removing Relays in Ethereum PBS" by Liu et al.
  + link. "Sandwiched and Silent: Behavioral Adaptation and Private Channel Exploitation in Ethereum MEV" by Davide Mancino and Davide Rezzoli
  + link. "Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made" by Andrea Canidio and Vabuk Pahari
  + link. "Three years of PBS. Time for a finality check. A survey of the structural gaps" by Blockspace Forum
  + link. "Economics: Align the Incentives To Align the Outcome." by Blockspace Forum
  + link. "Block building pipeline" by Vitalik
  + link. "What network effects mean for the design of L1s (and L2s)" by Andrea
  + link. "Why a Variable Payload Deadline Only Helps by ~6%" by Toni
  
- proof-of-stake
  + link. "Native DVT for Ethereum staking" by Vitalik

- consensus
  + link. "What is "Finalized" in Ethereum?" by potuz
  + link. "Optimizing a $100B Market: Effects of Latency Reduction on ETH Staking Revenue" by optimum
  + link. "Majorum: Ebb-and-Flow Consensus with Dynamic Quorums" by D'Amato et al.
  + link. "Trustless Consensus Manipulation Through Bribing Contracts" by Soóki et al.

- execution layer
  + link. "Why Ethereum needs an Encrypted Mempool" by Julian
  + link. "Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs" by Toni
  + link. "Outcome Preconfs: Verifying Block Commitments Without the Block" by Jason
  + link. "Analysis of different aggregation functions for EIP-8037 under different elasticity regimes" by Maria
  + link. "Worst-Case Block Size and Calldata Repricing for Glamsterdam" by Toni
  + prop amms
    * link. "Making Sense of Prop AMMs On Solana" by Lachezar Kolev & Andrea Candela
    * link. "The Rise of Proprietary Market Makers on Solana" by David Liang
    * link. "Solana's Proprietary AMM Revolution" by Lostin

- l1/l2 constructions
  + link. "How L1 and L2s can build the strongest possible Ethereum" by Josh, Julian, Josh
  + link. "Combining preconfirmations with based rollups for synchronous composability" by Vitalik
  + link. "Synchronous Composability Between Rollups via Realtime Proving" by Jordi Baylina
  + link. "New Directions in Synchronous Composability" by Jason Vranek
  + link. "A new, unified stack for Base Chain" by Base
  + link. "Vitalik ending rollup-centric roadmap" by Vitalik

- zk Ethereum
  + link. "Ethereum's Next Big Shift: From Re-Executing Every Transaction to Verifying ZK Proofs" by Ladislaus

- ethereum core development/proposals
  + link. "The Case for Quick Slots in Hegota" by Carl Beek
  + link. "Checkpoint #8: Jan 2026" by Nixo
  + link. "Integrating zkEVM Proofs into Ethereum's Core Protocol" by Kev
  + link. "An update from Tomasz" by Tomasz
  
- blobs
  + link. "Fusaka: More Blobs, Less Votes, Broken Hearts?" by Sam

- IC3 Winter Camp reading list
  + link. "B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting" by Breckenridge et al.
  + link. "Prrr: Personal Random Rewards for Blockchain Reporting" by Chen et al.

- post-quantum
  + link. "Quantum resistance roadmap" by Vitalik

- regulation
  + link. "Staff Statement Regarding Broker-Dealer Registration of Certain User Interfaces Utilized to Prepare Transactions in Crypto Asset Securities" by SEC

- news
  + link. "Vitalik on Ethereum / Linux" by Vitalik
  + link. "Ethereum's Post-Fusaka Activity Surge: The Impact of Address Poisoning" by Tanay Ved
  + link. "Golden Path (p1)" by Evgeny Gaevoy

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