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The broader tech landscape is seeing rapid advances in low‑cost sensing and AI, which could eventually impact demand for decentralized compute or privacy solutions, but those are multi‑year trends. For now, the crypto market is driven entirely by macro fear (F&G 28), not applied optics research.

Researchers published a paper in Nature demonstrating hidden-object imaging using consumer LiDAR sensors via motion-induced sampling, achieving 3D reconstruction, tracking, and localization with smartphone hardware.