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The ability to precisely edit neural circuits using engineered proteins advances neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). As BCIs converge with AI, they may create new demand for decentralized data storage, compute, and identity solutions—domains where crypto plays a role. However, in the near term, this event is a scientific milestone that competes for attention and venture capital with crypto-native narratives.

Scientists engineered synthetic electrical synapses using connexin proteins from white perch fish, enabling precision circuit editing in mammals, as published in Nature.