On May 22, 2025, the crypto industry ushered in an epoch-making moment.
The 15th Bitcoin Pizza Festival arrived as scheduled, and the price of BTC broke through the $110,000 mark, setting a record high; on the same day, the highly anticipated TRUMP dinner was held, and Sun Yuchen, the global consultant of Huobi HTX and the largest holder of $TRUMP, officially attended, once again pushing crypto assets into the mainstream focus of global attention. To commemorate Bitcoin’s extraordinary journey of leading global financial innovation over the past 15 years and to further strengthen its deep connection with community users, HTX DAO and Huobi HTX, with an offline celebration in both cities and a million-dollar online incentive, jointly presented a crypto feast that moves from community consensus to mainstream recognition.
On the day of Pizza Festival, HTX DAO, together with community members and ecological partners, held exclusive offline activities for Pizza Festival in Shenzhen and Beijing to pay tribute to the 15th Bitcoin Pizza Festival.
The "Interstellar Pizza Delivery Train" at Shenzhen Station took the lead, and HTX DAO customized luxury cars to shuttle through the city to deliver pizza to users, recreating the classic moment of "10,000 Bitcoins for Pizza" in 2010.
The Beijing station has created a dreamy "BTC Town" interactive game, where users can immersively experience Bitcoin "mining, poker, and consumption". At the same time, through tasks such as checking in and taking photos, they can win exquisite prizes such as HTX DAO limited peripherals and Dragon Boat Festival special gift boxes.
Not only that, Huobi HTX has also launched the "Global 12 Cities" Pizza Festival in Chengdu, Hubei, Wenzhou, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bangkok, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka[1] and other countries and regions, inviting users to enjoy free pizza.
This series of pizza festivals across the globe echoed Sun Yuchen's attendance at the Trump dinner, linking the historical intersection of Eastern community consensus and Western mainstream politics. It is a tribute to Bitcoin's fifteen-year journey of leading financial innovation, a collective declaration of crypto civilization moving towards the mainstream, and a manifestation of HTX DAO and Huobi HTX's firm practice in promoting the global consensus of Web3.
In terms of online activities, Huobi HTX, together with diamond sponsors JUST Protocol, SunPump, APENFT, BitTorrent, WINkLink, Steem and platinum sponsors Levva and ChainGPT, launched an online "Crypto Pizza Festival, Just in Huobi" themed aggregation welfare event, covering spot, contract, C2C, earning coins, community interaction and other scenarios, with a cumulative reward of nearly one million USDT, fully releasing the platform's ecological advantages and community feedback sincerity.
This online carnival attracted nearly 2 million participants, with more than 1 million participants in the pizza carnival user red envelope event alone, and nearly 200,000 USDT was awarded. It not only led to a significant increase in user activity, but also further deepened the ecological synergy and resource linkage between the platform and Web3 projects.
Fifteen years ago, "10,000 Bitcoins for pizza" opened the legend of cryptocurrency; today, the aroma of pizza is still there, but it carries the taste of the entire Web3 era.
In the future, HTX DAO and Huobi HTX will continue to focus on users and deepen the Web3 ecosystem with a global perspective, and continuously inject new momentum into promoting the compliance and mainstreaming of the encryption industry.
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