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Eightco Holdings Inc. said Thursday its treasury holdings reached approximately $337 million as the Nasdaq-listed company deepens its exposure to artificial intelligence, digital identity infrastructure and the creator economy through investments tied to OpenAI, Worldcoin and Beast Industries.
The company disclosed that, as of May 20, its holdings included an indirect $90 million exposure to OpenAI through special purpose vehicles, an $18 million stake in Beast Industries, more than 11,000 Ether tokens, roughly 283 million Worldcoin tokens and approximately $133 million in cash and stablecoins.
Eightco framed the portfolio as a concentrated bet on what it described as three defining structural themes shaping the next decade of technology infrastructure: artificial intelligence, proof-of-human identity systems and digital creator ecosystems.
The announcement comes amid intensifying investor focus on AI infrastructure and digital identity verification as concerns around synthetic content, bots and AI-generated activity accelerate across the internet.
According to data cited by the company and compiled by Fundstrat, non-human activity now accounts for an estimated 75% of trading volume on prediction market platform Polymarket, 53% of web traffic and 47% of global email traffic.
Eightco linked those trends to rising interest in Worldcoin’s “Proof of Human” infrastructure, which aims to verify whether users interacting online are real individuals rather than AI agents or automated systems.
The company said its Worldcoin position — totaling more than 283 million WLD tokens — represents approximately 8.31% of the token’s circulating supply and makes Eightco the largest publicly disclosed institutional holder globally.
Worldcoin, developed by Tools for Humanity and co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, is designed to provide privacy-preserving human identity verification through biometric Orb devices.
Eightco also highlighted several recent developments tied to OpenAI, including the reported preparation for a potential IPO filing and the launch of new enterprise AI deployment initiatives and financial services integrations.
The company cited OpenAI’s rapid user growth as a key factor behind its investment thesis, noting that ChatGPT surpassed 900 million weekly active users earlier this year, according to UBS data referenced by Reuters.
In the creator economy segment, Eightco pointed to the growing scale of Beast Industries, the media company led by MrBeast. The company recently projected 2026 revenue of $1.6 billion and unveiled new creator marketplace and AI-driven distribution initiatives aimed at advertisers and brand partners.
Eightco said its strategic positioning is designed to provide public-market investors with indirect exposure to private technology companies and infrastructure themes that remain largely inaccessible through traditional listed equities.
