The Blockchain Futures Group (BFG)

A group of undergraduate and postgraduate students working under the supervision of Prof. Donal O'Mahony exploring topics in and enabled by Blockchain technology.  The group has been active since around 2016.

Topics of Interest include

Projects completed or still ongoing in 2022/23

2022/23 Ongoing Projects
Student Project
Sijia Zhao PhD Thesis: Blockchain Layer2 Based Mass E-Commerce

Projects completed in 2021/22

2021/22 Ongoing Projects
Student Project
Aditya Shrivastava Dynamic Virtual Automated Market Makers and their limitations in Decentralized Finance
John Sinclair The Elinination of Maximum Extractable Value (MEV):An exploration of MEV elimination and mitigation techniques for the Ethereum Blockchain
Cian Murphy A Digital Identity System based on a basic Feature Phone
Adam Lysaght Exploring Miner Extractable Value : Optimising Transaction Ordering for Profit on the Blockchain
Harry Hogan Proposing a system for tracking horses using the Ethereum blockchain
Sean Larkin A Videogame Metaverse Based on the Polkadot Parachain Ecosystem
Chris Staunton Borrowing Digital Currency Against Real World Assets within Decentralised Finance : An exploration of collateralised lending within Decenralised Finance
Ruth Brennan Music Copyright Management using Smart Contracts and Tokenization on the Ethereum Blockchain
Aakash Ranglani  Exploring the use of MakerDAO for Real World Assets

Projects completed in 2020/21

Byrne, Stephen, An Exploration of Novel trading and Arbitrage Methods within Decentralised Finance
Abstract  Dissertation

Kitake-Myers, Ashlynn, Property Properly : A Decentralized Application for Property Transaction Management
Abstract Dissertation

Kilroy, David, A Decentralized Website Login System using 'Decentralized Identifiers'
Abstract Dissertation

Armstrong, Matthew,  Ethereum, Smart Contracts and the Optimistic Roll-up
Abstract Dissertation

Moran, Tom, An Exploration of Decentralised Identity@ A COVID-19 Vaccine Passport
Abstract Dissertation

Cheetham, Sean,  Safeguarding Secrets with Cyrpto and IPFS : An Exploration into Decentralised File Storage and Key Recovery
Abstract Dissertation

Projects completed in 2019/20

Chavady, George,  A Study of Oracle Systems for the QTUM Blockchain Eco-system
Abstract Dissertation

Mohan, Tushar Using Facebook's Libra Blockchain for Identity
Abstract Dissertation

Projects Completed in 2017/18

O'Kane, Eibhlin, Detecting Patterns in the Ethereum Transactional Data using Unsupervised Learning
Abstract Dissertation

Durban, Sean, An Anonymous Decentralised Messaging Application Utilising the Whisper Protocol
Abstract Dissertation

Projects Completed in 2016/17

Buckley, Gregory, Using the Ethereum Blockchain as a General Purpose Identity Mechanism
Dissertation

Diebold, Zachary, Self-Sovereign Identity using Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain
Abstract Dissertation