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The Arizona Senate Finance Committee advanced S.C.R. 1003 and S.B. 1044 on Monday, bills that aim to exempt crypto from property taxes. Both legislations are pending voter approval in November. The state’s committee voted 4-3 on the Senate Bill 1044 after Senator Wendy Rogers introduced the bill last month. The legislation aims to exempt digital assets from property taxation. The Senate Concurrent Resolution 1003 was also introduced on the same day, and seeks to amend Arizona’s constitution to formalize that exemption. S.C.R. 1003 and S.B. 1044 await public vote in November 🇺🇸 ARIZONA JUST ADVANCED A BILL TO ELIMINATE PROPERTY…

TLDR: Mesh secures $75M Series C, total funding exceeds $200M, valued at $1B globally. Network reaches 900M users, expanding into Latin America, Asia, and Europe. SmartFunding tech allows any crypto to be spent, merchants settle instantly. Part of Series C funded in stablecoins, proving enterprise-ready blockchain settlement.   Mesh, the global crypto payments network, announced it raised $75 million in a Series C round, bringing total funding to over $200 million and valuing the company at $1 billion. The round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, SBI Investment, and Liberty City Ventures. Mesh…

Crypto payments network Mesh has raised $75 million in a Series C round pushing its total funding past $200 million and valuing the company at $1 billion. Mesh has closed a $75M Series C at $1B valuation. This is more than a funding round–it’s the beginning of the end for legacy payments.For too long, global commerce has been stuck with systems that are slow, siloed, and expensive for both merchants and users. That era is… pic.twitter.com/obUnVp3uYS— Mesh (@meshpay) January 27, 2026 The fudning round was led by Dragonfly Capital with participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, SBI Investment and…

As the market shifts into risk-off mode, risk management naturally takes center stage. Historically, this has meant either exiting positions or moving to the sidelines, waiting to re-enter once conditions flip back to risk-on. Notably, how investors are positioning around this shift is likely to shape Bitcoin’s [BTC] next move. On the speculative side, the BTC market is deleveraging, with Open Interest down nearly $10 billion in under ten days. Put simply, traders are flushing excess leverage. However, they’re not heading to the sidelines. As the chart shows, the combined market cap of the top 12 stablecoins has fallen by…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors flat, HYPE and PUMP outperform; BTC at $88k Anthropic CEO warns AGI is coming in 1-2 years in latest essay Coinbase spins up advisory board to address quantum risk BlackRock launches new iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF Tether added significantly more gold than USDT in Q4 🧠 Anthropic’s CEO Warns AI Is Outrunning Our Ability to Control ItA sobering note from inside the AI frontier…

Entropy, a decentralized custody startup that raised $25 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2022, is shutting down and returning capital to investors, founder and CEO Tux Pacific announced on X. Pacific said the decision came after four years of building, “several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs.” The company was most recently developing a crypto automations platform, described as similar to n8n or Zapier but designed for crypto, featuring automated signing using threshold cryptography, secure computation via trusted execution environments (TEEs), and AI integrations. “After an initial feedback request revealed that the business model wasn’t…

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The US Bitcoin Mining Hashrate took a sudden hit this past week, and it wasn’t due to market drama or new regulations. Instead, extreme weather flipped the switch. Let’s break it down. As Winter Storm Fernan swept across the United States, it caused a sharp drop in the US Bitcoin mining hashrate. The US Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Foundry USA‘s hashrate has dropped by approximately 200 exahashes per second (EH/s), a 60% decrease over the past few days. A storm with freezing temperatures, snow, and ice hit major mining regions of the US, straining electricity grids. In a bid to cut…

The MSTR stock price retreated on Monday as Bitcoin erased its yearly gains and after the company continued its accumulation. Summary MSTR stock price continued falling as Bitcoin erased its year-to-date gains. Strategy bought 2,932 Bitcoins, bringing its holdings to 712,647. Technical analysis suggests that the Strategy stock will drop to $100. Strategy stock dropped to $160, down sharply from its all-time high of $542 and its 2025 high of $455. Its crash has erased billions of dollars in value, a trend that may continue in the near term. In a statement, Strategy said that it acquired 2,932 Bitcoin (BTC)…

If Congress fails to pass market structure legislation this year, the U.S. crypto market would not revert to the enforcement-heavy environment of 2022 and 2023, but it would remain structurally constrained at a moment when global adoption and institutional interest are accelerating, Wall Street broker Benchmark said. “The absence of legislation would cause a structural risk premium to persist across much of the digital asset ecosystem,” wrote analyst Mark Palmer in the Monday report, adding that this would cap valuation expansion for U.S.-exposed platforms.Palmer said failure to pass legislation would delay, not derail, crypto’s maturation, leaving the U.S. market operating…