Dubai’s crypto party is bigger than ever
A yacht party hosted by DogeOS during the Token2049 Dubai conference week. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 1, 2025
Natasha Turak | CNBC
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On a humid Dubai night in early May, I joined guests gathered on the five-storey, 220-foot long Lotus megayacht to celebrate the culmination of TOKEN2049, a major crypto conference held in the glitzy desert emirate I call home.
The party was hosted by DogeOS, the app developer behind the blockchain for Dogecoin, the shiba inu-faced meme coin that saw a rip-roaring rally in 2021 and briefly turned a few bullish buyers into millionaires.
It’s part of a long string of high-profile UAE-based industry events and feels like a prescient symbol of the ever-growing exuberance…
