Eightco (ORBS) Treasury Totals $340M, Anchored by WLD, ETH, and an OpenAI Stake

EASTON, Pa. — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) said its treasury and strategic holdings totaled approximately $340 million as of 6:00 p.m. ET on May 12, 2026, citing a mix of private-company equity, digital assets, cash and stablecoins.

Per the company, the position includes a $90 million indirect equity stake in OpenAI held through special purpose vehicles, an $18 million funded investment in Beast Industries and a $1 million stake in Mythical Games. The disclosure was issued Wednesday.

The digital-asset side of the book is led by 283,452,700 Worldcoin (WLD), marked at $0.27 per token using Coinbase pricing, alongside 11,068 ether (ETH). Cash and stablecoins came to roughly $129 million.

Eightco said the update reflects its focus on three areas it describes as long-cycle bets: artificial intelligence, digital identity and the creator economy. The company frames its WLD position as exposure to Worldcoin's Proof of Human network, which it argues addresses authentication demand created by AI-generated content online.

Board member Thomas "Tom" Lee was quoted in the release saying AI and the infrastructure supporting it remain the largest driver of global economic growth for the next several years.

The company cited third-party figures to justify the thesis. Per Fundstrat data referenced in the release, non-human traffic now accounts for 75% of Polymarket trading volume, 53% of web traffic, 47% of emails sent, 44% of U.S. equity buy-side execution and 35% of new website creation.

The filing also flagged a shift in prediction-market pricing on a potential OpenAI social network. Per Polymarket data cited by the company, the implied probability of a 2026 launch rose to 64% from roughly 25% earlier in the year. Eightco said media reports from January 28, 2026, had described OpenAI as exploring a biometric social network to separate human from bot-generated content.

On the World protocol's commercial model, the company pointed to a $6.35 trillion combined addressable revenue opportunity across 13 industries, including banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media and agentic AI, citing figures from Tools for Humanity. Under that model, applications pay per-verification fees while end-user verification remains free.

Eightco said OpenAI separately introduced a "Trusted Contact in ChatGPT" safety feature on May 7, allowing adult users to nominate a contact who may be notified if automated systems flag a self-harm risk. The company referenced the rollout as evidence of OpenAI's focus on user-level safety design.

What it means: Eightco's update positions ORBS as a listed proxy for a basket that mixes private AI equity, an Ethereum holding and a heavy WLD allocation, with about 38% of the disclosed $340 million sitting in cash and stablecoins. The book is concentrated in a single thesis — that verified-human authentication becomes a paid layer on top of a bot-saturated internet — and its mark-to-market value will track WLD, ETH and any subsequent revaluations of the OpenAI and Beast Industries stakes.