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# A Nasdaq Company Holds Eight Percent of All Worldcoin in Circulation
- URL: https://www.pennystocks.news/orbs-a-nasdaq-company-holds-eight-percent-of-all-worldcoin-i/
- Published: 2026-09-04T23:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-04T23:00:34.000Z
- Description: Eightco Holdings claims a roughly $380 million treasury anchored by a Worldcoin position the company says is 8.3% of everything currently in circulation. The release does not say what the company paid for those tokens.
- Author: PennyStocksNews Team
- Tags: nasdaq, ticker-orbs

Eightco Holdings says it owns **nearly 302 million Worldcoin tokens — about 8.3% of the token's circulating supply**, the largest publicly disclosed institutional position in the asset, according to a press release the company filed with the SEC on September 3.

Eightco Holdings Inc. NASDAQ: ORBS 

The company put its **total treasury at roughly $380 million** as of September 2, spread across four positions: **about $90 million invested indirectly in OpenAI** through special purpose vehicles, an **$18 million equity stake in Beast Industries** (the holding company behind MrBeast's YouTube operation), roughly $122 million in cash and stablecoins, and the Worldcoin holding. The Worldcoin figure uses a stated price of $0.37 per token as of that evening, per Coinbase.

For a shareholder, the company functions as a publicly traded wrapper around assets that are otherwise difficult to access: a liquid token, two private-company stakes, and cash. Two of the four positions — the OpenAI stake and the Beast Industries equity — have no liquid market price, and the release does not explain how either valuation was determined. The OpenAI exposure is held through third-party vehicles, not direct equity, which means Eightco has no involvement in how OpenAI is run and no guaranteed path to liquidity from that stake.

Shares closed 15.78% higher at $0.9698 on September 4, on dollar volume of about $28.5 million.

The company also said it **bought back more than 25 million of its own shares** over the past month under a previously announced **$125 million repurchase program**. Board member Tom Lee was quoted in the release saying the company "judged that accretively acquiring shares is a high return use of capital."

Holding 8.3% of a token's circulating supply is a concentrated position. The release does not say **what Eightco paid for those tokens**, when it accumulated them, or whether any restrictions apply to selling them.