Eightco Holdings Inc. (ORBS) Announces 16.9 Million Verified World Humans, Adding 1.9 Million Since Launching Worldcoin Treasury Just 3 Weeks Ago
Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) has announced its ambitious 'Power of 8' initiative, targeting 800 million Worldcoin (WLD) tokens and 8 billion verified humans. The company reported adding 1.9 million verified humans in just three weeks since launching its Worldcoin treasury strategy, bringing the total to 16.9 million.
Notable Wall Street analyst Dan Ives, newly appointed as Chairman, projects that 'Proof of Human' verification could reach a value of $200-300 billion, suggesting a potential WLD coin value of $20-30. The company aims to reach 100 million verified humans within the next 12 months.
The initiative is supported by prominent investors including MOZAYYX, BitMine Immersion, World Foundation, Wedbush, and others, focusing on establishing a universal foundation for digital identity in the AI era.
- Added 1.9 million verified humans in just 3 weeks, reaching 16.9 million total users
- Ambitious growth target of 100 million verified humans within 12 months
- Strong backing from prominent investors and industry leaders
- Potential WLD coin value projection of $20-30 per token
- Appointment of renowned analyst Dan Ives as Chairman
- Highly ambitious 8 billion human verification target may be challenging to achieve
- Significant gap between current 16.9M users and 100M 12-month target
- Valuation projections are speculative and dependent on market adoption
Insights
Eightco's Worldcoin verification system shows rapid growth with ambitious targets, though valuation projections appear highly speculative.
Eightco Holdings' announcement reveals significant momentum in its World human verification platform, adding
The appointment of Dan Ives as Chairman brings market credibility, but his valuation projections (
The company positions World as the "single sign-on for the AI era" and frames human verification as critical infrastructure for the emerging AI economy. The vision of creating a universal foundation for digital identity has merit in an era of increasing AI-generated content and digital identity challenges.
However, the release lacks crucial details on how Eightco will achieve these ambitious goals, their competitive advantages, revenue model, or how they'll overcome the significant regulatory and privacy hurdles facing global biometric identity systems. The vague reference to blockchain enabling "the safest solution" omits addressing widespread concerns about Worldcoin's privacy implications and centralization aspects.
While verification systems for distinguishing humans from AI will likely become increasingly valuable, the exponential growth and valuation targets presented appear highly optimistic without a clear path to massive adoption beyond the current 16.9 million users.
Unveils 'Power of 8' Initiative: 800M Worldcoin (WLD) Tokens and 8B Verified Humans
Dan Ives, renowned technology and AI expert and Wall Street analyst, serves as Chairman of the Board
World is the single sign-on for the AI era
"If we succeed on our mission, World might become the largest network of real people online, fundamentally changing how we interact and transact throughout the Internet," says Sam Altman
Investors include MOZAYYX, BitMine Immersion (BMNR), World Foundation, Wedbush, Coinfund, Discovery Capital Management, FalconX, Kraken, Pantera, GSR, Brevan Howard and more
"World is the single sign-on for the AI era, making it possible to trust and transact anonymously online for the first time," said Dan Ives, newly appointed Chairman of Eightco Holdings Inc. (ORBS). "In the AI value chain, LLMs are valued at
Ives continues, "We believe in the 'Power of 8': ORBS reaching 800 million WLD tokens and verifying 8 billion humans. The momentum of the past few weeks is only the beginning."
The issue of trust in the agentic age and the urgent demand for digital verifications systems is more important than ever before, recently voiced by President Trump in his address to the United Nations announcing that he'll be "meeting with the top leaders of the world by pioneering an AI verification system that everyone can trust."
"We also talked a lot about the need to include a financial network of some sort. It was clear to us that authentication and proof of humanity was an important component," said Sam Altman, Co-founder of World and OpenAI, on the creation of World. "But it was also clear that one of the most important problems, one of the reasons you needed this was for people to be able to exchange value, for people and AI's to exchange value, someday for AI's and AI's to do it."
Blockchain technology enables the safest solution to secure human verifications in the digital age, echoed by industry leaders, "The internet-native money is crypto. It's a bearer instrument," said Ben Horowitz, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, "So crypto is kind of like the economic network for Al."
Eightco Holdings Inc. (ORBS) is committed to establishing a universal foundation for digital identity. World's proprietary verification Orb technology is designed to meet the security and identity challenges of the future, offering a path to a universally trusted digital identity and the foundation for the next generation of online trust, verification and economic exchange. The Orbs are the hardware backbone of Worldcoin, verifying unique humans, distributing tokens fairly, and creating a trusted digital identity system. World will be the leading verification platform for consumers around the world.
ABOUT EIGHTCO HOLDINGS INC.
Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is delivering a first-of-its-kind Worldcoin (WLD) treasury strategy. With this digital asset treasury (DAT), Eightco is advancing the AI revolution, implementing a technology infrastructure layer that is integral to the future of authentication, verification and Proof of Human (PoH). In an increasingly agentic world, Eightco aims to achieve a universal foundation for digital identity.
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