EASTON, Pa., June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting its growing position across digital assets and strategic investments in leading private technology companies.
As of June 3, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. ET, ORBS’ holdings include a $90 million investment (indirectly, through SPVs) in OpenAI, an $18 million funded investment in Beast Industries, a $1 million investment in Mythical Games, 283,452,700 Worldcoin (WLD) at $0.55 per WLD (per Coinbase), 16,278 Ethereum (ETH), and approximately $142 million in total cash and stablecoins, for total holdings of approximately $437 million.
ORBS management believes the Company’s treasury portfolio holds some of the most critical components for the future AI and digital financial system. Among the holdings, key highlights in recent weeks are:
- On June 1, Anthropic, recently valued at nearly $1 trillion, confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO, setting up what could become one of the most significant technology offerings in history.
- The Anthropic news comes out amidst news that OpenAI is preparing to file to go public in the coming weeks.
- On June 1, Alphabet, parent company of Google, announced plans to raise up to $80 billion to fund AI-related investments and computing infrastructure to meet unprecedented demand.
“The market is witnessing one of the largest technology investment cycles in history as AI reshapes industries, business models, and the global economy,” said Thomas “Tom” Lee, Board Member of Eightco. “Anthropic’s filing highlights the expectation of enormous investor appetite for AI companies. With OpenAI’s filing reported to be upcoming, we believe OpenAI sits at the center of this transformation, and ORBS’ exposure to the company provides shareholders with participation in what we view as one of the most significant value creation opportunities of the coming decade.”
- Data compiled by Fundstrat shows that “non-humans” now account for the following estimated shares of volume on various platforms:
– 75% of Polymarket trading volume
– 53% of web traffic
– 47% of emails sent
– 44% of US equity buy-side execution
– 35% of new website creation
– 30% of online product reviews
Eightco is built around three mega-trends the Company expects to shape the next decade of innovation: artificial intelligence, digital identity, and the creator economy, with positions in each trend through indirect investment in OpenAI (21% of ORBS’ treasury holdings), Worldcoin (36%), and Beast Industries (4%).
Eightco has invested approximately $90 million in special purpose vehicles with exposure to equity interests in the parent company of OpenAI, representing approximately 21% of treasury assets, one of the highest disclosed concentrations of any listed vehicle.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s consumer app, is the #1 consumer AI app worldwide and crossed 900 million weekly active users in February 2026, making it the fastest-scaling consumer technology in history.
Eightco holds over 283 million WLD, approximately 8.4% of circulating supply, the largest publicly disclosed institutional position globally and approximately 36% of the Eightco treasury’s assets.
Worldcoin is the native token of World, a global Proof of Human network built by Tools for Humanity (co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania) and stewarded by the World Foundation. Its Orb devices issue a privacy-preserving World ID that verifies a user is a unique human, not an AI agent.
Under World’s announced business model, applications pay per-verification fees while end-user verification remains free, with both credential issuers and the World protocol monetizing verified-human authentication. World identifies a $6.35 trillion combined addressable revenue opportunity across 13 industries spanning banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and agentic AI.
Eightco has invested $18 million in Beast Industries equity, approximately 4% of treasury assets.
Beast Industries operates one of the largest direct-to-consumer reach footprints in the world, with a combined 500 million-plus follower base across platforms, anchored by MrBeast as the most-watched person on YouTube globally. As AI commoditizes content production, distribution and audience trust become increasingly scarce assets.
Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq. ORBS provides indirect exposure to: OpenAI and Beast Industries.
Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) holds 283 million WLD, approximately 8.4% of circulating supply and the largest publicly disclosed institutional position globally.
Proof of Human is cryptographic verification that a user is a unique, living person, not a bot or AI agent. It is foundational infrastructure for social networks, banking, agentic commerce, and any system requiring “one person, one account” in the agentic AI era.
Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) is the largest publicly disclosed institutional holder of Worldcoin (WLD), the token powering World’s Proof of Human network.
Kevin O’Donnell is the CEO of Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS). The Company’s Board includes Tom Lee (Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat, and Chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR)) and, as an advisor to the Board, Brett Winton (Chief Futurist at ARK Invest).
