Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) has provided an update on its total holdings as of September 2, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. ET, highlighting its positions across digital assets and strategic investments in leading private technology companies. The Company's treasury comprises a $90 million indirect investment (through SPVs) in OpenAI, an $18 million funded investment in Beast Industries, a $1 million investment in Mythical Games, 301,971,219 Worldcoin (WLD) tokens at $0.37 per WLD (per Coinbase), 16,278 Ethereum (ETH), and approximately $122 million in total cash and stablecoins — for total holdings of approximately $380 million. Over the past month, Eightco has repurchased more than 25 million shares of its common stock under its previously announced $125 million share repurchase program. The disclosure places Eightco among a small group of publicly traded companies — a cohort that includes digital-asset treasury vehicles such as Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), one of Eightco's disclosed institutional backers — that hold substantial token treasuries rather than conventional operating assets alone.

Eightco previously participated in World Foundation's $52.5 million funding round, led by Pantera with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors. The Company provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies, including OpenAI and Beast Industries.

Top Headlines Driving the News

Eightco's management believes the Company's treasury portfolio holds some of the most critical components for the future AI and digital financial system. Recent developments include:

• On September 2, World announced it has open-sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge identity proving toolkit, making it available to developers outside World. ProveKit is built into World ID and powers the privacy-preserving features that make proof of human useful for enterprises, consumer platforms, and developers (World).
• On September 1, SB Energy, an AI power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia, filed for a potential IPO. In its initial filing, the company said it is "substantially dependent" on the performance of OpenAI as both a tenant and equity investor in SB Energy (CNBC).
• On September 1, MrBeast released a book with bestselling author James Patterson, titled The Most Dangerous Games (HarperCollins).
• On August 31, OpenAI announced that its advertising business, ChatGPT Ads, reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch. The platform is now used by tens of thousands of advertisers and continues to expand globally (Axios).
• On August 31, OpenAI announced its support for California Senate Bill 1119 to advance youth AI safety, legislation intended to establish meaningful safeguards for how young people use AI while preserving their access to tools that can help them learn, create, and prepare for the future (OpenAI).
• On August 21, peaqOS and World ID announced a partnership to enable Proof of Human for robots and machines. A machine can check that the person in front of it is a real human and the same one who placed the order, without ever learning a name, a face, or a number (peaq).

"AI stocks have been under pressure recently, partly a result of backlash against data centers. This seems to be an issue resonating with voters," said Tom Lee, Board Member of ORBS. "But despite this setback, AI progress continues at a rapid pace as evidenced by the multiple meaningful announcements in the past week."

"Eightco executed additional share buybacks as the Company has judged that accretively acquiring shares is a high return use of capital," stated Lee.

Exposure to Key Mega-Trends

Eightco is built around three mega-trends the Company expects to shape the next decade of innovation — artificial intelligence, digital identity, and the creator economy — with positions in each trend through indirect investment in OpenAI (24% of ORBS' treasury holdings), Worldcoin (29%), and Beast Industries (5%).

Artificial Intelligence — OpenAI. Eightco has invested approximately $90 million in special purpose vehicles with exposure to equity interests in the parent company of OpenAI, representing approximately 24% of treasury assets — one of the highest disclosed concentrations of any listed vehicle. ChatGPT, OpenAI's consumer app, is the #1 consumer AI app worldwide (Sensor Tower). On July 31, 2026, OpenAI announced that its models now reach more than one billion active users and more than two million businesses. Six months after signing up, people send roughly 50 percent more messages each day and use ChatGPT for about twice as many kinds of work. Because OpenAI remains private, indirect vehicles such as Eightco's SPV positions are one of the few disclosed routes by which public-market investors can hold exposure to the company's equity.

Digital Identity — WLD Token. Eightco holds nearly 302 million WLD, approximately 8.3% of circulating supply — the largest publicly disclosed institutional position globally — representing approximately 29% of the Eightco treasury's assets. Worldcoin is the native token of World, a global Proof of Human network built by Tools for Humanity (co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania) and stewarded by the World Foundation. Its Orb devices issue a privacy-preserving World ID that verifies a user is a unique human, not an AI agent. Under World's announced business model, applications pay per-verification fees while end-user verification remains free, with both credential issuers and the World protocol monetizing verified-human authentication. World identifies a $6.35 trillion combined addressable revenue opportunity across 13 industries spanning banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and agentic AI (per Tools for Humanity). Recent ecosystem moves — the open-sourcing of ProveKit and the peaqOS machine-verification partnership — illustrate how the World ID developer footprint has continued to broaden, a factor the Company cites alongside its token position.

Creator Economy — Beast Industries. Eightco has invested $18 million in Beast Industries equity, approximately 5% of treasury assets. Beast Industries operates one of the largest direct-to-consumer reach footprints in the world, with a combined 500 million-plus follower base across platforms, anchored by MrBeast as the most-watched person on YouTube globally. As AI commoditizes content production, distribution and audience trust become increasingly scarce assets, the Company notes.

About Eightco Holdings Inc.

Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is a publicly traded company executing a first-of-its-kind Worldcoin (WLD) treasury strategy, providing investors single-ticker indirect exposure to three defining trends of this cycle: artificial intelligence through its indirect investment in OpenAI, digital identity through its position as the largest public holder of WLD and the Proof of Human protocol, and the creator economy through its equity stake in MrBeast's Beast Industries. Backed by leading institutional investors including Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), MOZAYYX, World Foundation, Discovery Capital Management, FalconX, Payward/Kraken, Pantera, and GSR, Eightco is building the infrastructure layer for human verification in the agentic AI era. For more information: X: @iamhuman_orbs; Website: 8co.holdings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ORBS stock? Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq. ORBS provides indirect exposure to OpenAI and Beast Industries, and holds one of the largest publicly disclosed positions in Worldcoin (WLD).

Who owns the most Worldcoin (WLD)? Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) holds nearly 302 million WLD, approximately 8.3% of circulating supply — the largest publicly disclosed institutional position globally.

What is Proof of Human? Proof of Human is cryptographic verification that a user is a unique, living person, not a bot or AI agent. It is foundational infrastructure for social networks, banking, agentic commerce, and any system requiring "one person, one account" in the agentic AI era.

How does Eightco (ORBS) relate to Proof of Human? Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) is the largest publicly disclosed institutional holder of Worldcoin (WLD), the token powering World's Proof of Human network.

Who is the CEO of Eightco Holdings? Kevin O'Donnell is the CEO of Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS). The Company's Board includes Tom Lee (Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat, and Chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR)) and, as an advisor to the Board, Brett Winton (Chief Futurist at ARK Invest).

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including statements regarding: the Company's expectations that artificial intelligence, digital identity, and the creator economy will shape the next decade of innovation; management's belief that the Company's treasury portfolio holds some of the most critical components for the future AI and digital financial system; management's belief that accretively acquiring shares is a high return use of capital; statements that AI progress continues at a rapid pace; statements regarding World's $6.35 trillion addressable revenue opportunity; statements that distribution and audience trust become increasingly scarce assets as AI commoditizes content production; statements that the Company is building the infrastructure layer for human verification in the agentic AI era; statements that Proof of Human is foundational infrastructure for systems requiring verified human identity; statements regarding indirect exposure to defining trends through investments in OpenAI, WLD, and Beast Industries; and statements regarding continued share repurchases under the $125 million share repurchase program.

Words such as "plans," "expects," "will," "anticipates," "continue," "expand," "advance," "develop," "believes," "guidance," "target," "may," "remain," "project," "outlook," "intend," "estimate," "could," "should," "positioned," and "view" are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such terms. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions, are subject to risks and uncertainties, and are not guarantees of future performance.

Actual results could differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement as a result of various factors, including, without limitation: the Company's inability to direct the management or operations of private businesses where it is not a controlling stockholder, including OpenAI and Beast Industries; risk of loss or markdown on the Company's strategic investments, including its indirect OpenAI equity position (held through special purpose vehicles), its WLD position, and its Beast Industries equity position; the Company's ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq's continued listing requirements; unexpected costs, charges, or expenses that reduce capital resources or delay capital deployment; inability to raise adequate capital to fund or scale business operations or strategic investments; volatility in digital asset prices, including WLD and ETH, which could materially affect the value of treasury holdings; regulatory changes, future legislation, and rulemaking negatively impacting digital assets, artificial intelligence adoption, or biometric data collection; risks related to the development, adoption, and market acceptance of Proof of Human technology and the World network; uncertainty regarding the pace and trajectory of agentic AI deployment; uncertainty regarding OpenAI's product roadmap, business model developments, and any future liquidity events; risks related to Beast Industries' ability to achieve its growth projections; competition in the digital identity and AI infrastructure markets; reliance on third-party sources for the valuation of certain investments; uncertainty regarding MrBeast's continued success and the performance of Beast Industries' creator-driven business model; risks related to the Company's concentrated positions in certain digital assets and private company investments; risks related to the share repurchase program, including the timing, pricing, and amount of any repurchases; shifting public and governmental positions on digital assets or AI-related industries, including potential backlash against data centers; risks related to the timing, features, and commercial reception of OpenAI's model releases; risks related to OpenAI's advertising business and its ability to sustain revenue growth; and risks that WLD supply dynamics may not result in anticipated market effects.

Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties and other important factors that could cause Eightco's actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see Eightco's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the risk factors and other disclosures in its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2026, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 15, 2026, and other publicly available SEC filings. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and Eightco undertakes no duty to update this information or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect actual results or any change in its expectations.