Term Paper Topics for COL867

1. Scaling blockchains through Sharding
   [You should discuss, compare, and critique various proposals for sharding. These should include Ethereum Sharding proposals, Elastico (NUS), OmniLedger, and Aspen (Cornell). You will get extra credit for including more sharding proposals in your term paper.]


2. Off-chain solutions for scalability
   [You should discuss, compare and critique proposals for scalability using off-chain solutions. These should include Plasma, Raiden and Lightening Network. You will get extra credit for including more off-chain solutions in your term paper.]
   


3. Solutions for anonymity
   [You should discuss, compare and critique proposed anonymity solutions. These should include TumbleBit, Mimblewimble, and Zcash. You will get extra credit for including more anonymity solutions in your term paper.]


4. Light-weight consensus protocols
   [You should discuss, compare and critique consensus protocols that do not require heavy computation. These should include PBFT, Algorand, and Ouroboros. You will get extra credit for including more light-weight consensus protocols in your term paper.]


5. Alt Coin Rock Stars
   [ Discuss, compare and critique some of the upcoming Alt Coins. These should include Ripple, Stellar, Neo, and Cardano. Also compare them to Bitcoin and Ethereum. You will get extra credit for including more Alt Coins in your term paper.]


6. Game theory and Blockchain
   [ Discuss and do a high-level critique of different works on Game Theory and Blockchain. A few papers are:
   
   a) Kiayias, A., Koutsoupias, E., Kyropoulou, M., & Tselekounis, Y. (2016, July). Blockchain mining games. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (pp. 365-382). ACM.
   
   b) Lewenberg, Y., Bachrach, Y., Sompolinsky, Y., Zohar, A., & Rosenschein, J. S. (2015, May). Bitcoin mining pools: A cooperative game theoretic analysis. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 919-927). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
   
   c) Xiong, Z., Feng, S., Niyato, D., Wang, P., & Han, Z. (2017). Edge computing resource management and pricing for mobile blockchain. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01567.]