Ray Blanco:

‘Super-Vision’ Contact Lenses Let Wearers See in the Dark — Even With Their Eyes Closed

Scientists have created night-vision contact lenses that they claim can grant people "super-vision."

The lenses — which use nanoparticles to absorb low-frequency light before emitting it in the visible spectrum — enable wearers to see infrared wavelengths that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.

And unlike traditional night-vision goggles, these lenses don't require a power source. The researchers described the new lenses May 22 in the journal Cell Press.

To create the new lenses, the scientists embedded nanoparticles inside flexible, nontoxic polymers typically used in soft contact lenses. The nanoparticles — which consist of sodium gadolinium fluoride embedded with luminescent ytterbium, erbium and gold — absorb near-infrared photons in the 800- to 1,600-nanometer wavelength range before emitting them as visible light, wavelengths from around 380 to 750 nanometers

Wearers could perceive flickering infrared light and pick up on its direction. This infrared vision was enhanced when the participants closed their eyes.

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Chris Campbell:

Bitcoin: Don’t Watch the Price—Watch This

Let’s say you’re trying to figure out what the smartest people in the room are really doing with their money. In crypto, that means going on-chain.

Bitcoin’s on-chain activity is like the heartbeat of the network. When it starts racing, it means people are moving BTC, buying, selling, holding tight, or gearing up for something big. When it flatlines, you’re likely in the middle of a ghost town—at least temporarily.

And for the past several months, Bitcoin’s heartbeat was faint. Even as price bounced around, the actual usage on the network was slipping. That’s the kind of mismatch that usually screams: "Careful—this rally might be fake!"

But now? Something changed. The downtrend in on-chain activity just snapped. And that matters—big time. The whales aren’t just laser-eyed Bitcoin bros and shadowy supercoders anymore. They’re companies—public ones. And they’re ETFs.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs are soaking up BTC at record speed—over 60,000 BTC in the past 30 days. Every time an ETF issues new shares to meet demand, it has to buy real BTC. That BTC moves. It leaves wallets. It hits the chain. That shows up as—you guessed it—on-chain activity.

And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

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Enrique Abeyta:

Bitcoin Just Leveled Up… But Most People Missed It

We just saw a period when Bitcoin outperformed stocks, did so with lower volatility, and returned to highs quicker — all without any fanfare. This time of year is graduation season. And in many ways, Bitcoin has just crossed the stage.

For the first time, we’ve seen it behave like a mature global asset: resilient, stable, and quietly outperforming during a volatile stretch for markets. If that trend holds, it could finally silence Bitcoin’s biggest criticism (its extreme volatility).

Even if future returns are half of what they’ve been over the past decade, Bitcoin would still rank among the best-performing assets in the world. Plus, it may offer protection when markets get rough. That’s something that was long theorized, but never convincingly proven... until now.

Missing the journey to $1,000,000 — now with lower volatility — is not a mistake you can afford to make.

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