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Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) Reports Total Holdings of Approximately $374 Million, Includes OpenAI, Beast Industries, More Than 11,000 ETH and Over 283 Million WLD Tokens

EASTON, Pa., May 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) ("Eightco" or the "Company") today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting its leading position across digital assets and strategic investments in leading private technology companies. As of May 27, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. ET, ORBS' holdings…

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Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) Reports Total Holdings of Approximately $337 Million, Includes OpenAI, Beast Industries, More Than 11,000 ETH and Over 283 Million WLD Tokens

EASTON, Pa., May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) ("Eightco" or the "Company") today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting its leading position across digital assets and strategic investments in leading private technology companies. As of May 20, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. ET, ORBS' holdings…

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Sam Altman fails to get eyes on his ‘creepy’ startup

OpenAI boss is less than 1 per cent of the way to reaching his goal of 2 billion iris scans

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Eightco Holdings Launches AI Authentication Program To Transform Enterprise Security

Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ORBS) shares moved higher on Friday after the company announced the launch of a new pilot program to develop advanced AI authentication solutions for enterprises, targeting new approaches to tackle emerging identity and verification challenges as organizations expand their use of artificial intelligence.

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Dan Ives Begins Global Tour To Promote World Network — Meanwhile, Eightco Shares Rise After-Hours

Dan Ives, Chairman of Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ORBS), visited the World Network (WLD) flagship store in San Francisco on Tuesday, as part of his international tour promoting the identity verification project.

Benzinga

Dan Ives Announces International Tour To Promote World Network, Eightco Chair Targets $992 Million WLD Acquisition

Dan Ives, Chairman of Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:OCTO), said Tuesday that the company is geared to acquire 800 million World Network (WLD) tokens as part of its “Power of 8” program.

Benzinga

Tesla bull Dan Ives now chairs a company hoarding a Sam Altman-linked cryptocurrency. He's not the only big name to enter the treasury race

Digital asset treasury companies increasingly turn to Wall Street celebrities to stand out in a crowded field.

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Fintech Firm Eightco Shares Skyrocket After Bold Market Move

Eightco Holdings stock exploded nearly 5,000% after unveiling a $250 million Worldcoin treasury plan and naming analyst Dan Ives board chair—an audacious pivot that has stunned investors.

International Business Times UK

Bitcoin Holding $112,000 As Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Extend Gains

Cryptocurrency markets are trading higher on Monday as gold continued its rally above $3,600.

Benzinga

This Penny Stock Just Soared 4,000% on a Key Worldcoin Investment. Should You Buy Its Shares Here?

Eightco stock soared over 4,000% today after announcing a Worldcoin crypto treasury strategy. But there are ample reasons to not touch OCTO shares with a 10-ft pole.

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Eightco Embraces Worldcoin As Treasury Asset With Backing From BitMine

Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:OCTO) shares surged 1000% in premarket trading after the company said it raised $250 million through a private placement to adopt Worldcoin (WLD) as its primary treasury reserve asset.

Benzinga

Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free

Iris scans and face scans? Or do we need a "new class of solutions"?

PC Gamer

Meet the Orb — Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity pays you $42 in crypto to become a verified human before an AGI apocalypse

Sam Altman's World just launched the Tools for Humanity Orb in the U.S., aiming to install 7,500 stations and register up to 50 million people by the end of 2025.

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This sci-fi ball is coming for your eyes – but you'll get something back in return

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity has launched the World Orb in the US to scan irises in exchange for cryptocurrency. No, really.

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Salon

This crypto requires an eyeball scan

The Sam Altman-backed project, now in six U.S. cities, aims to avoid giving digital money to bots

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Americans can finally scan their eyeballs for crypto in return after Sam Altman-backed World launches in U.S.

The eyeball-scanning crypto play had originally stayed out of the U.S. market amid a more uncertain regulatory regime.

International Business Times

BioMatrix Tokens Take Center Stage At CES 2025 – $PoY Coins For AI Home Units

BioMatrix's token system has been integrated by AC Future as a payment option, allowing participants to use $PoY tokens to pre-order AC Future's cutting-edge smart AI-powered home transformer units.

International Business Times

Worldcoin Rebrands, Launches Layer 2 World Chain With Priority Lane For Verified Humans

Worldcoin is now World, and it launched a new Ethereum layer 2 blockchain, World Chain, where verified humans will benefit from the efficiency of a layer 2 solution backed by some of the world's top industry players.

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The Conversation

OpenAI’s data hunger raises privacy concerns

Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety standards for developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models. This was a change of posture for the company, whose chief executive Sam Altman has previously spoken in support of AI regulation.

International Business Times

Embattled Worldcoin To Launch Layer-2 Blockchain Called World Chain

Worldcoin, which is under international scrutiny for its alleged infringements on data privacy rights, will launch a new layer-2 blockchain that will be "deeply integrated with the Worldcoin protocol."

International Business Times

Worldcoin Iris Codes Can Now Be Deleted Amid Growing Global Scrutiny

Worldcoin, which has been under growing scrutiny from various governments, has decided to update its iris code terms, now allowing for the deletion of such data upon request.

International Business Times

Cash-strapped Argentines Queue For Eyeball Scans

Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries.

International Business Times

US Charges KuCoin Crypto Exchange With Money Laundering Violations

The U.S. DOJ has charged KuCoin and two of its founders of violating anti-money laundering laws, further noting that the leading crypto exchange facilitated billions in "suspicious" flows on the platform.

International Business Times

Portugal Orders Sam Altman-Backed Worldcoin To Stop Collecting Biometric Data For 3 Months

Worldcoin has once again been questioned for its biometric information scanning operations as Portugal ordered the project to stop processing the Portuguese people's data for 90 days.

International Business Times

Worldcoin Asserts Orb Security Amid Spain Ban

Spain has become the latest country to move against allowing Worldcoin to continue using its iris scanning technology in the country, but the biometric crypto project is keen on clarifying how its technology works.

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