BlockBeats news, on January 30, according to Coindesk, Decentralization infrastructure provider Elastos has raised $20 million from private investment firm Rollman Management, and plans to expand its merged ELA Token mining into BTC reserve assets. In addition, Elastos aims to develop its BTC Decentralized Finance protocol BeL2.

On August 11, local time, an explosion occurred in a house in Bel Air, a town in northeastern Maryland, United States, causing at least one death. Currently, firefighters are searching for other victims in the ruins, and the case is still under further investigation.