On the 22nd of May 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 Bitcoin on two pizzas.
At the time, that was about $41. Those same Bitcoin would be worth hundreds of millions today. It is the most expensive pizza order ever placed, and the most important transaction in the history of digital currency. Not because of the pizza. Because it proved that Bitcoin could function as real money in the real world. Every year on the 22nd of May, the crypto community marks that moment. Bitcoin Pizza Day is part anniversary, part inside joke, and part genuine celebration of how far this technology has come.
KNSY grew up in this industry. Crypto was one of our earliest and most formative verticals — the space that taught us how to build fast, think clearly, and work with founders operating at the edge of what was possible. We have never drifted far from it. So when Bitcoin Pizza Day comes around, we do not just acknowledge it. We show up for it. This year, that meant Dubai.
MB.io, MultiBank Group, and TheBlock brought the 2026 Global Pizza Party to Dubai, and the energy in the room reflected exactly what makes the crypto community worth being part of. Builders, founders, traders, and enthusiasts gathered not for a conference or a pitch fest, but for something more honest than that. Pizza, conversation, and a shared appreciation for where all of this started.
KNSY started in crypto. It is where we cut our teeth, where we learned to move fast and build things that actually work. Events like this are a reminder of why we stay close to the industry even as we have grown well beyond it. There is a culture here that does not exist anywhere else.
The headline session of the evening was a campfire discussion that turned out to be one of the sharpest conversations we have heard in a long time. Moderated by Travis Wright, CMO of mb.io, the panel brought together Zak Taher, CEO of MultiBank io and CBO of MultiBank Group, Farbod Sadeghian, Founder of TheBlock, and Alex Davis, Founder and CEO of Mavryk.
The session was titled "From Pizzas to Properties to Precious Metals and Beyond" and it lived up to it. The conversation covered the future landscape of crypto, what global mass adoption actually looks like in practice, and where the real opportunity sits right now. The standout topic was tokenised real world assets. RWAs have been discussed for years, but the consensus in that room was that the infrastructure has finally caught up with the idea. Tokenised property, commodities, and financial instruments are not a future use case anymore. They are happening, and the window to build around them is open now.
It was the kind of discussion that reminds you why being in the room matters.
The event was hosted at TheBlock Dubai, one of the UAE's most interesting spaces for the crypto and Web3 community. If you have not been, it is worth knowing about.
