Scientific Research Assignment
The goal of this assignment is to create a 2-3 page essay that does a critical analysis of a research topic. Your task is to highligh weak spots and strong spots for each paper.
Deadline: Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:59 PM
You can start from one of the topics below, or propose a new one. We encourge you to find 2-3 similar papers on Google Scholar related to your chosen topic.
| Paper Name | Link |
|---|---|
| Proof of Space with VDF: An Alternative Permissionless BFT Consensus Protocol, by Yuxuan Luo. | Link |
| An Initial Framework for NFT Auction Mechanism Design: Impossibility Results and Solutions, by Andy Arditi, Pranav Garimidi, Dean Hirsch, and Iason Milionis. | Link |
| Alternative Sybil Resistance Methods, by Marcus Daly, Nathan Cuevas, Griffin Klett, and Lynn Zhu. | Link |
| A Review of Zero Knowledge Proofs, by Thomas Chen, Abby Lu, Jern Kunpittaya, and Alan Luo. | Link |
| A Survey of DeFi Lending, by Alex Brenebel, Lynsey Haynes, Vaibhav Kapur, and Jonathan Larkin. | Link |
| DAOs, by Utkarsh Sinha, Sofia Bianchi, Ian Macleod, and Imanol Uribe. | Link |
| Proof of Participation Voting for On-Chain Governance, by Terry Chung, Sandip Nair, Uttara Ravi, and Pranav Kajgaonkar. | Link |
| A Technical Deep Dive Into and Implementation of Non-Fungible Tokens in a Practical Setting, by Julia Martin and Carrie Hay Kellar. | Link |
| Privacy when Everyone is Watching: Anonymity on the Blockchain, by Nilaksh Agarwal and Roy Rinberg. | Link |
| MEV on L2 by FlashBabies (Huy Ha, Vasiliki Vlachou, Quintus Kilbourn, and Cesare De Michellis). | Link |