TCR Live: DeFiLlama drops Aster; Mercado Bitcoin rebrands as Brazil’s tokenized finance hub

DeFiLlama drops Aster over suspicious trading data, sparking a 10% token fall, while Mercado Bitcoin rebrands as a tokenized-finance hub in Brazil.

Coinbase secures ground on three fronts — a federal trust charter, Samsung integration, and a welfare pilot using digital assets. Sam Bankman-Fried resurfaces from prison to revisit the FTX collapse, and Yuga Labs wins clarity as a U.S. judge rules BAYC NFTs and ApeCoin aren’t securities.

Quickfire updates follow: Nigeria’s regulators unite, the UAE’s economy surges, Crypto.com expands lending, Walmart adds crypto, and a €500 million fraudster is caught.