Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: $ORBS) said Tuesday that its treasury now totals about $321 million, including a $90 million investment in OpenAI, 277.2 million Worldcoin (CRYPTO: $WLD) tokens, 11,068 eth (CRYPTO: $ETH), a $25 million stake in Beast Industries, and roughly $110 million in cash and stablecoins. The Nasdaq-listed company said its OpenAI position represents about 30% of total treasury holdings.   The update matters because Eightco is trying to position itself less as a conventional small-cap company and more as a listed vehicle for retail investors seeking exposure to private technology winners. In effect, the company is arguing that public-market access to coveted private names such as OpenAI can itself become the investment case. 

Eightco also said it holds nearly 9% of Worldcoin’s circulating supply, making it the largest public-market participant in that ecosystem. At the same time, management pointed to $130 million in new funding commitments—led by an $80 million investment from Bitmine (NYSE: $BMNR), alongside $25 million commitments from ARK Invest and Payward—as capital to push deeper into artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure, and digital consumer platforms. 

That combination gives ORBS a distinctly hybrid pitch: part crypto treasury story, part AI access trade, and part creator-economy bet through Beast Industries. Whether investors embrace that framing will depend on how much value they place on liquid exposure to hard-to-reach private tech, but Eightco’s message is clear: scarcity of access is becoming a product in its own right. 

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Eightco Holdings stock is currently trading at $0.82 U.S. per share.