The Cosmos ecosystem chain Evmos has halted operations on the 18th.

May 24 — Renowned journalist Nick Sortor reports that the individual involved in the gun incident near the White House has been identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best. Authorities confirm Best had a history of multiple attempts to breach the White House, including an arrest in July 2025. Following that arrest, he was ordered to complete mandatory mental health treatment, publicly claimed to be Jesus Christ, and was subject to a pre-existing restraining order.

May 24: Bankr developer @0xDeployer announced plans to launch the Bankr Fund, which will allocate real capital to top-tier projects within the Bankr ecosystem. The fund’s first investment is expected to take place in the coming weeks. Recently, several high-quality AI projects in the Base ecosystem have released tokens via the Bankr platform. Projects such as LFI and GITLAWB have quickly gained market recognition, with each boasting a market capitalization exceeding $20 million.

On May 24, stablecoin issuer StablR suffered a sustained attack that caused its euro-pegged EURR and dollar-pegged USDR to lose their pegs. Blockchain security firm Blockaid reports the attacker allegedly seized control by compromising one private key for the minting multisig account, replacing other admins via the protocol’s 1-of-3 signature setup, then minted an extra 8.35 million USDR and 4.5 million EURR. The attacker subsequently swapped roughly $10.4 million worth of the ill-gotten tokens on a decentralized exchange (DEX) for approximately 1,115 ETH, pocketing an estimated $2.8 million in profit. In the wake of the breach, EURR slumped to around $0.88, while USDR fell to roughly $0.70. Blockaid clarified the incident wasn’t due to a smart contract vulnerability – instead, it resulted from failures in key management and governance processes.

Early this morning Beijing time, heavy gunfire was reported near the White House in Washington, D.C. The White House was placed on lockdown shortly after the incident. At the time, President Trump was inside the White House. The gunman has since been confirmed dead.

May 24. After nearly three months of conflict, Iran, the U.S., Pakistan, and several international media outlets signaled Saturday that negotiations are making progress, with all parties moving toward milestone outcomes. Should this trend continue to be confirmed and implemented next week, risk appetite could return to capital markets, leading to a rally in U.S. equities and cryptocurrencies. On the macro front, top officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan (BoJ) will deliver speeches next week, offering further clarity on near-term interest rate expectations. Key upcoming events include: - Tuesday, 10:00 PM ET: U.S. Conference Board May Consumer Confidence Index - Wednesday, 8:00 AM JST: BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the bank’s Monetary Policy Meeting - Wednesday, 8:15 PM ET: ADP U.S. Employment Change for the week ended May 9 - Thursday, 8:30 PM ET: Canada’s Q1 Current Account; U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ended May 23; U.S. April Core PCE Price

May 24 (Xinhua) — Mehdi Taj, president of Iran’s Football Federation, announced on Wednesday (May 23) that FIFA has approved relocating Iran’s FIFA World Cup base camp from Tucson, Arizona in the United States to Tijuana, Mexico. In a statement released by Iran’s Football Federation, Taj noted the move was prompted by difficulties the national team faced obtaining visas for its original U.S. base. The Iranian side asked FIFA to shift the camp to Tijuana, and local preparations in the Mexican city have already been completed. Tijuana lies on Mexico’s border with the United States, roughly 20 kilometers from San Diego, California.