Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) Declares its Participation in World Basis’s $52.5M funding spherical as World Shifts From Constructing the Community to Scaling Utility

Eightco treasury composition as of July 26, 2026: $90M OpenAI fairness (oblique), $18M Beast Industries fairness, 16,278 ETH, practically 302 million WLD holdings, and $142M money and equivalents, totaling roughly $391 millionOpenAI just lately introduced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a possible future preliminary public offeringEightco supplies oblique publicity to among the most progressive non-public firms together with OpenAI and Beast IndustriesEASTON, Pa., July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Firm”) in the present day supplied an replace on its complete holdings, highlighting its place throughout digital property and strategic investments in main non-public expertise firms.On July 24, 2026, World Basis introduced a $52.5M funding spherical led by Pantera Capital together with Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and extra traders. World Basis additionally celebrated its three-year anniversary of launching into manufacturing, as greater than 39 million have joined World Community, with greater than 18 million people verified by an Orb. The community has utilized greater than 475 million World ID proofs since its launch.As of July 26, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. ET, ORBS' holdings embrace a $90 million funding (not directly, by means of SPVs) in OpenAI, an $18 million funded funding in Beast Industries, a $1 million funding in Legendary Video games, 301,971,219 Worldcoin (WLD) at $0.36 per WLD (per Coinbase), 16,278 Ethereum (ETH), and roughly $142 million in complete money and stablecoins, for complete holdings of roughly $391 million.”Clearly, the world is getting near very highly effective AI,” Sam Altman mentioned just lately. “We care extra about people than we care about AI. And we're so hardwired to care about those who I am not afraid for the long run so long as we are able to inform. World ID is our effort at that, and it has been wonderful to see the progress during the last yr as folks have adopted this and discovered tips on how to combine this into a brand new world.””The discount within the WLD token issuance, which began on July 24, cuts incremental provide by half. This could considerably enhance the online provide/demand stability for WLD and thus, helps the argument for improved threat/reward in costs,” mentioned Tom Lee, Board Member of Eightco (ORBS).Prime Headlines Driving the Information:ORBS administration believes the Firm's treasury portfolio holds among the most crucial parts for the long run AI and digital monetary system. This week's prime headlines embrace:On July 21, it was introduced that asset supervisor, Grayscale, filed with the SEC to launch the primary U.S. ETF tied to Worldcoin (Decrypt).On July 21, OpenAI introduced the launch of ChatGPT for small companies program, an initiative to assist small companies be extra productive and scale their companies with ChatGPT (OpenAI).On July 21, Franklin Templeton Digital Belongings printed a white paper, authored by Sandy Kaul, titled “Agentic AI—The Killer Use Case for Blockchain and Crypto” (white paper) suggesting blockchains will facilitate machine to machine transactions and can be important to the deployment of widespread Agentic-AI companies. That is in step with our conviction within the notion that WorldID sits on the heart of this interplay.On July 22, it was introduced that OpenAI plans to construct an information heart in Georgia with 3.2 gigawatts of energy to be delivered in phases from 2028 to 2032 (Axios).On July 24, 2026 World's token issuance schedule reached a big milestone. As outlined within the unique World whitepaper, the community's largest three-year token unlock interval concluded, lowering the variety of WLD coming into circulation every day by roughly 43%, from about 5.1 million tokens to about 2.9 million. ORBS at present holds 301,971,219 WLD, representing roughly 8% of the circulating provide and the biggest publicly disclosed WLD place on the planet. WLD will proceed to enter circulation, however at roughly half the earlier day by day fee, materially slowing the expansion of general provide (World).Eightco: Publicity to key mega-trendsEightco is constructed round three mega-trends the Firm expects to form the following decade of innovation: synthetic intelligence, digital identification, and the creator financial system, with positions in every pattern by means of oblique funding in OpenAI (23% of ORBS' treasury holdings), Worldcoin (28%), and Beast Industries (5%).Synthetic Intelligence — OpenAIEightco has invested roughly $90 million in particular goal autos with publicity to fairness pursuits within the mother or father firm of OpenAI, representing roughly 23% of treasury property, one of many highest disclosed concentrations of any listed automobile.ChatGPT, OpenAI's client app, is the #1 client AI app worldwide (Sensor Tower) and crossed 900 million weekly lively customers in February 2026, making it the fastest-scaling client expertise in historical past (UBS by way of Reuters).Digital Id — WLD TokenEightco holds practically 302 million WLD, roughly 8% of circulating provide, the biggest publicly disclosed institutional place globally and roughly 28% of the Eightco treasury's property.Worldcoin is the native token of World, a world Proof of Human community constructed by Instruments for Humanity (co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania) and stewarded by the World Basis. Its Orb units difficulty a privacy-preserving World ID that verifies a person is a novel human, not an AI agent.Below World's introduced enterprise mannequin, purposes pay per-verification charges whereas end-user verification stays free, with each credential issuers and the World protocol monetizing verified-human authentication. World identifies a $6.35 trillion mixed addressable income alternative throughout 13 industries spanning banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and agentic AI (per Instruments for Humanity).Creator Financial system — Beast IndustriesEightco has invested $18 million in Beast Industries fairness, roughly 5% of treasury property.Beast Industries operates one of many largest direct-to-consumer attain footprints on the planet, with a mixed 500 million-plus follower base throughout platforms, anchored by MrBeast because the most-watched particular person on YouTube globally. As AI commoditizes content material manufacturing, distribution and viewers belief turn out to be more and more scarce property.About Eightco Holdings Inc.Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is a publicly traded firm executing a first-of-its-kind Worldcoin (WLD) treasury technique, offering traders single-ticker oblique publicity to a few of the defining tendencies of this cycle: synthetic intelligence by means of its oblique funding in OpenAI, digital identification by means of its place as the biggest public holder of WLD and the Proof of Human protocol, and the creator financial system by means of its fairness stake in MrBeast's Beast Industries. Backed by main institutional traders together with Bitmine Immersion Applied sciences Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), MOZAYYX, World Basis, CoinFund, Discovery Capital Administration, FalconX, Payward/Kraken, Pantera, and GSR, Eightco is constructing the infrastructure layer for human verification within the agentic AI period.For extra data:X: @iamhuman_orbsWebsite: 8co.holdingsFrequently Requested QuestionsWhat is ORBS inventory?Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is a publicly traded firm on Nasdaq. ORBS supplies oblique publicity to: OpenAI and Beast Industries.Who owns essentially the most Worldcoin (WLD)?Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) holds practically 302 million WLD, roughly 8% of circulating provide and the biggest publicly disclosed institutional place globally.What's Proof of Human?Proof of Human is cryptographic verification {that a} person is a novel, dwelling particular person, not a bot or AI agent. It's foundational infrastructure for social networks, banking, agentic commerce, and any system requiring “one particular person, one account” within the agentic AI period.How does Eightco (ORBS) relate to Proof of Human?Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) is the biggest publicly disclosed institutional holder of Worldcoin (WLD), the token powering World's Proof of Human community.Who's the CEO of Eightco Holdings?Kevin O'Donnell is the CEO of Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS). The Firm's Board contains Tom Lee (Managing Companion and Head of Analysis at Fundstrat, and Chairman of Bitmine Immersion Applied sciences (NYSE: BMNR)) and, as an advisor to the Board, Brett Winton (Chief Futurist at ARK Make investments).Ahead-Trying StatementsThis press launch accommodates forward-looking statements inside the which means of the Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements on this press launch aside from statements of historic truth might be deemed forward-looking, together with, with out limitation, statements relating to: the Firm's expectations that synthetic intelligence, digital identification, and the creator financial system will form the following decade of innovation; the Firm's perception that its treasury portfolio holds among the most crucial parts for the long run AI and digital monetary system; statements relating to the anticipated enchancment in WLD internet provide/demand stability and threat/reward in costs following the discount in token issuance; statements that blockchains will facilitate machine-to-machine transactions and can be important to the deployment of widespread agentic AI companies; the Firm's conviction that WorldID sits on the heart of the interplay between AI and blockchain; statements relating to World's addressable income alternative of $6.35 trillion throughout industries spanning banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and agentic AI; statements relating to the anticipated discount in WLD token issuance following July 24, 2026, together with the discount from roughly 5.1 million tokens to roughly 2.9 million tokens day by day; statements that the Firm holds the biggest publicly disclosed WLD place globally; statements that distribution and viewers belief turn out to be more and more scarce property as AI commoditizes content material manufacturing; statements relating to the Firm constructing the infrastructure layer for human verification within the agentic AI period; statements relating to the Firm offering oblique publicity to defining tendencies by means of its investments in OpenAI, WLD, and Beast Industries; statements that OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a possible future preliminary public providing; and statements relating to future phases of OpenAI's information heart undertaking in Georgia from 2028 to 2032. Phrases resembling “plans,” “expects,” “will,” “anticipates,” “proceed,” “increase,” “advance,” “develop,” “believes,” “steerage,” “goal,” “could,” “stay,” “undertaking,” “outlook,” “intend,” “estimate,” “may,” “ought to,” “positioned,” “view,” and different phrases and phrases of comparable which means and expression are meant to establish forward-looking statements, though not all forward-looking statements include such phrases. Ahead-looking statements are primarily based on administration's present beliefs and assumptions which might be topic to dangers and uncertainties and should not ensures of future efficiency. Precise outcomes may differ materially from these contained in any forward-looking assertion because of numerous components, together with, with out limitation: the Firm's lack of ability to direct the administration or operations of personal companies the place the Firm just isn't a controlling stockholder, together with OpenAI and Beast Industries; threat of loss or markdown on the Firm's strategic investments, together with its oblique place in OpenAI fairness (held by means of particular goal autos), its place in WLD, and its place in Beast Industries fairness; the Firm's capacity to keep up compliance with Nasdaq's continued itemizing necessities; surprising prices, costs or bills that scale back the Firm's capital assets or in any other case delay capital deployment; lack of ability to boost enough capital to fund or scale its enterprise operations or strategic investments; volatility in digital asset costs, together with WLD and ETH, which may materially have an effect on the worth of the Firm's treasury holdings; regulatory adjustments, future laws and rulemaking negatively impacting digital property, synthetic intelligence adoption, or biometric information assortment; dangers associated to the event, adoption, and market acceptance of Proof-of-Human expertise and the World community; uncertainty relating to the tempo and trajectory of agentic AI deployment in enterprise and client purposes; uncertainty relating to OpenAI's product roadmap, enterprise mannequin developments, and the timing or success of any IPO; dangers associated to Beast Industries' capacity to attain its development projections; competitors within the digital identification and AI infrastructure markets; reliance on third-party sources for the valuation of sure investments; uncertainty relating to MrBeast's continued success and the efficiency of Beast Industries' creator-driven enterprise mannequin; dangers associated to the Firm's concentrated positions in sure digital property and personal firm investments; shifting public and governmental positions on digital property or synthetic intelligence-related industries; dangers that WLD provide dynamics could not end in anticipated market results; dangers associated to World Basis's funding, growth, and skill to scale its community and enterprise mannequin; and dangers related to the timing and completion of OpenAI's deliberate information heart initiatives. Given these dangers and uncertainties, you might be cautioned to not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. For a dialogue of different dangers and uncertainties, and different essential components, any of which may trigger Eightco's precise outcomes to vary from these contained within the forward-looking statements herein, see Eightco's filings with the Securities and Trade Fee (the “SEC”), together with the danger components and different disclosures in its Annual Report on Type 10-Okay filed with the SEC on April 15, 2026 and different publicly accessible SEC filings. All data on this press launch is as of the date of the discharge, and Eightco undertakes no responsibility to replace this data or to publicly announce the outcomes of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to mirror precise outcomes or any change in its expectations.  Disclaimer: This can be a sponsored press launch and is for informational functions solely. 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