Eightco Holdings Inc. has built a roughly $391 million digital-asset and private-equity treasury that includes 301.97 million Worldcoin tokens, a position the company says equals about 8% of WLD’s circulating supply, alongside indirect exposure to OpenAI and a new investment in World Foundation’s $52.5 million funding round.
The treasury snapshot, dated July 26 at 7:30 p.m. ET, places nearly 302 million WLD at the center of Eightco’s holdings. Using a stated WLD price of $0.36, the tokens were valued at about $108.7 million. Eightco described the stake as the largest publicly disclosed WLD holding, representing about 28% of its reported treasury mix.
The disclosure arrives days after World Foundation announced that Pantera Capital led its $52.5 million financing round. Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco, Selini Capital and Susquehanna Crypto were among the other participants named by the foundation.
World Foundation paired the funding news with fresh network figures for World, saying the proof-of-humanity network has surpassed 39 million users, including more than 18 million people verified through an Orb device. World also said users and applications have generated more than 475 million World ID proofs since the network launched.
Eightco’s treasury combines WLD, AI exposure and liquid reserves
Eightco reported approximately $142 million in cash and stablecoins, giving it a substantial liquid reserve beside its more volatile token holdings and private-company positions. Its treasury also includes 16,278 ETH, although the company did not provide a separate dollar valuation for that Ethereum position in the supplied breakdown.
The company assigned a $90 million value to indirect OpenAI equity held through special-purpose vehicles, or SPVs. SPVs are legal entities used to hold an interest in another company, allowing participants to gain exposure without owning shares directly. That OpenAI-related position represented about 23% of Eightco’s reported holdings.
Other positions included $18 million in Beast Industries equity and $1 million in Mythical Games. Eightco said the Beast Industries stake accounted for roughly 5% of treasury assets. Beast Industries is associated with creator Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, whose channels have accumulated more than 500 million followers across platforms, according to the company.
The mix gives Eightco a treasury unusually concentrated in projects connected to artificial intelligence, online identity and digital entertainment. WLD represents the company’s largest directly identified token allocation, while the OpenAI-linked position is its largest disclosed private-market holding.
Funding follows World’s three-year production milestone
World Foundation announced the funding round on July 24, coinciding with the network’s third anniversary in production. The organization stewards the World network, which was built with Tools for Humanity and uses Orb devices to establish a privacy-preserving World ID.
World ID is designed to let a person show that they are a unique human without publicly revealing their identity. The system has become more central to World’s stated strategy as AI tools and autonomous agents become more capable of acting online.
Sam Altman, who is associated with World and serves as chief executive of OpenAI, said World ID is intended to help distinguish people from AI agents. The distinction has practical implications for services that need to limit one account per person, reduce automated fraud or establish whether an online action was taken by a human.
World said applications can pay fees for individual verifications while users can obtain verification without charge. Tools for Humanity has estimated a $6.35 trillion combined addressable revenue opportunity across 13 industries, including banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media and agentic AI. That estimate reflects the company’s own assessment of possible markets rather than reported revenue.
Lower token issuance changes WLD’s supply schedule
The funding update also followed a change to Worldcoin’s token-emission schedule. Eightco said the revised plan, which began July 24, cuts incremental WLD issuance by half. The company described daily tokens entering circulation as falling by roughly 43%, from about 5.1 million WLD to about 2.9 million WLD.
A lower daily issuance rate reduces the number of newly released tokens available to the market, though its effect on WLD’s price will also depend on demand, token unlocks, liquidity and the behavior of large holders. For Eightco, whose stated position amounts to about 8% of circulating supply, the revised schedule ties a material portion of its treasury value to World’s approach to token distribution.
The company’s disclosure did not provide a cost basis for its WLD position or detail the terms under which it acquired the tokens. It valued the holding using the $0.36 per-token price in its July 26 treasury snapshot.
ETF filing adds a U.S. regulatory route for WLD exposure
Eightco also pointed to a July 21 filing by Grayscale with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an exchange-traded fund tied to Worldcoin. A filing begins a regulatory process and does not establish that an ETF will be approved, launched or structured to hold spot WLD.
Even so, the filing places Worldcoin among a growing set of crypto assets being considered for regulated U.S. investment products. An approved product could offer market participants a familiar securities account route to WLD exposure, subject to the final fund structure and SEC review.
The company connected the World developments to increased attention around OpenAI. Eightco said ChatGPT reached 900 million weekly active users in February 2026 and ranked as the leading consumer AI application. It also said OpenAI had submitted a confidential S-1 registration statement for a potential future initial public offering.
Those AI-related developments do not automatically translate into demand for WLD, but they reinforce the commercial problem World is trying to address: online systems increasingly need ways to distinguish people from automated software. Eightco’s treasury now places that thesis beside substantial cash reserves, Ethereum holdings and private-company exposure, making the performance of World’s identity network a meaningful factor in the company’s reported asset base.
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