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The crypto market is currently in a fear-driven consolidation phase (Fear & Greed 27, BTC at $63k). Any non-crypto tech news is largely ignored by traders focused on macro headwinds and regulatory uncertainty. However, as a hedge fund analyst, we note that materials science advances like this could lower the energy cost of non-volatile memory, which is critical for next-gen ASICs and IoT devices that might support decentralized networks.

Researchers demonstrated perpendicular switching of polarization in layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 using trilinear coupling, enabling manipulation of in-plane polarization with an out-of-plane electric field.