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Crypto markets remain driven by macro fear (Fear & Greed at 27) and Bitcoin dominance, with altcoins underperforming. Scientific breakthroughs like this are typically ignored by traders unless they are directly tokenized or linked to a specific crypto project. However, they contribute to the long-term narrative of decentralized science (DeSci) and could attract capital to niche tokens if the technology is commercialized via token incentives.

A nanopore-based 'chop and measure' method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution using enzymatic digestion and repetitive N-terminus re-reading.