HTX Launches TradFi Trade to Earn #2: Trade TradFi Assets with Negative Fee Rates and Share an $80,000 Prize Pool

APIA, Samoa, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On August 5, HTX officially launched the second phase of its TradFi Trade to Earn campaign. The event brings together 28 selected TradFi perpetual futures trading pairs across four major asset categories: stocks, indices, commodities, and precious metals. Through a dual-track incentive structure, users can trade with negative fee rates and support $HTX buybacks. With a total prize pool of $80,000, the event allows users to trade popular global TradFi assets while earning substantial rewards.

For full event details, please visit: https://www.htx.com.hr/en-us/support/45040173530399/

Trade U.S. Stock Perps on HTX with Negative Fee Rates

From now until August 15, 11:59 (UTC), users who complete event registration and trade the designated TradFi futures pairs will receive $HTX rewards, calculated as the actual trading fees multiplied by an order reward ratio: 110% for Maker orders and 105% for Taker orders. This means users can trade popular TradFi assets at negative fee rates — the higher the trading volume, the greater the rewards. For high-frequency traders in particular, the trading cost structure and overall trading experience can be significantly improved.

HTX debuted its first TradFi Trade to Earn campaign in July. The campaign received a strong market response and achieved great success, generating over 63 million USDT in trading volume across selected pairs and distributing over 23,000 USDT in rewards within 10 days. To give back to global users, TradFi Trade to Earn #2 further expands the prize pool, offering daily rewards of up to $8,000 equivalent $HTX rewards.

Notably, all fee revenue generated by users on designated TradFi futures pairs during the event period will be used for $HTX buybacks. The repurchased tokens will be burned as part of the quarterly $HTX burn, supporting the stable, long-term appreciation of $HTX.

A Curated Selection of High-Quality Assets

HTX’s TradFi zone brings global core assets into the crypto exchange framework, freeing users from the trading hours and geographical restrictions of traditional markets. Users can now participate in TradFi asset trading 24/7, seizing opportunities from global macro events, industry catalysts, and price movements to achieve more efficient asset allocation and risk management. This phase of the campaign features 28 high-liquidity trading pairs across four asset categories: Precious metals: XAU, XAUT, XAG, PAXG. Commodities: USOIL, BRENTOIL. Indices: SPX500, QQQ, SOXL, EWY. Stocks: SNDK, SKHYNIX, SPCX, MU, SKHY, TSLAX, GOOGL, AAPL, APP, INTCX, NVDA, ZHIPU, MSTRX, AMD, MSFT, CXMT, MRVL, CRCLX.

Closing Thoughts

As one of the early pioneers expanding into the crypto-TradFi intersection, HTX continues to deepen its strategic focus on this sector through ongoing Trade to Earn initiatives and ongoing token listings. Building on its TradFi strategy, HTX plans to introduce more asset classes, advanced trading instruments, and targeted user campaigns, giving users worldwide richer investment options and a seamless one-stop trading experience.

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TraceLink Leads the Industry With the First Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower With Reasoning

TraceLink’s Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower transforms operational data into trusted business understanding through reasoning, analytics, active monitoring, and observability, enabling people and governed OPUS Agents to collaborate on intelligent decisions

BOSTON, August 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink, the world’s largest Agentic Business Network for the life sciences and healthcare supply chain, today introduced the first truly Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower, an operational intelligence platform that combines analytics, reasoning, active monitoring, and observability to power the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model.

Traditional control towers were designed for visibility. Today’s multienterprise supply networks require operational intelligence that understands business context, enables reasoning, and coordinates work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents. The Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower transforms business activity into the trusted operational understanding needed for faster decisions, coordinated execution, and continuous adaptation across the enterprise and partner network.

Built on the Agentic Supply Chain Operating System and powered by the world’s largest Agentic Business Network—linking more than 315,000 authenticated entities and supporting hundreds of billions of annual supply chain exchanges—the Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower enables organizations to coordinate work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents with greater speed, resilience, and confidence.

“The role of the supply chain control tower is fundamentally changing,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink. “Traditional control towers helped organizations monitor operations. As AI becomes an active participant in supply chain work, organizations need operational intelligence that provides trusted business context, enables reasoning, and coordinates work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents. The Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model requires an Agentic Control Tower to power the transformation.”

The First Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower

The Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower redefines the traditional control tower as the intelligence layer for the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model. It brings together foundational OPUS Platform capabilities that transform operational data into trusted business understanding, enabling people and governed OPUS Agents to collaborate on intelligent decisions across the end-to-end supply network.

• Scalable Analytics
  
  Built on a redesigned analytics architecture that supports enterprise-scale workloads, OPUS Reports and Dashboards (ORD) moves analytics beyond the scalability and performance limits of traditional reporting environments, enabling organizations to analyze dramatically larger volumes of operational data. Recent enhancements deliver at least 30% faster reporting while extending analytics from thousands of rows to datasets containing millions of rows. Organizations can transform growing volumes of operational data into trusted business understanding that accelerates decision-making, strengthens operational resilience, and improves execution across the end-to-end supply network.

• Agentic Reasoning
  
  OPUS Brain—TraceLink’s agentic reasoning engine—uses reasoning artifacts, semantic search, short-term memory, and object metadata to guide OPUS Agents to perform work consistently without hallucinations. Rather than simply presenting information, it enables organizations to make more deterministic decisions, reduce dependence on manual interpretation, and confidently scale AI-assisted work under appropriate governance and human oversight.

• Event-Driven Intelligence
  
  Object Events and Object Action Scripts continuously observe conditions and initiate governed responses as transactions and workflows progress. By sensing meaningful supply chain events as they occur, organizations can reduce response times, improve exception management, and shift from reactive issue management to proactive coordination.

• Semantic Business Context
  
  Semantic models, canonical objects, and enhanced reference data capabilities ensure information is interpreted consistently across systems, trading partners, and processes. This shared understanding creates a common language that increases confidence in automation, AI-driven recommendations, and standardized execution.

• Continuous Observability
  
  OPUS Metrics and Lakehouse capabilities measure performance, system activity, transaction processing, agent utilization, and outcomes to create a continuous feedback loop for improvement. With greater insight into both execution and agent performance, organizations can identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and continuously improve supply chain performance over time.

At FutureLink Barcelona, attendees will see how the Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower enables the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model by combining operational intelligence, reasoning, and governed collaboration between people and OPUS Agents to transform how work is performed across the end-to-end supply network.

About TraceLink

TraceLink powers the transformation to an Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model for life sciences and healthcare by combining human expertise with agentic work across the end-to-end supply network.

Through Agentic Business Processes, Agentic Control Towers, the Integrate-Once™ Agentic Business Network, and governed OPUS Agents, TraceLink enables companies to significantly improve productivity, service, inventory, working capital, cost, compliance, quality, resilience, and revenue performance.

Powered by the OPUS Platform and the world’s largest Agentic Business Network, which links more than 315,000 authenticated business entities and hundreds of billions of annual supply chain transactions, TraceLink enables companies to digitalize business transactions, create trusted operational context, and perform work across multienterprise supply chain processes with greater speed, intelligence, control, and accountability.

Learn more at www.tracelink.com.

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GLG’s AI-Moderated Calls Unlock Expert Insights at New Speed and Scale

Clients can engage trusted experts with conversational AI agent, capturing qualitative depth and quantitative data in 10 languages

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GLG, the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, today announced its enhanced AI-Moderated Calls offering, enabling clients globally to engage experts through autonomously conducted calls in 10 languages. The AI Moderator is purpose-built to guide structured calls with nuanced conversational capabilities, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights with greater speed and scale.

“Trusted human expertise has never been more valuable – and our AI-Moderated Calls help make access to it more scalable than ever for our clients, letting them conduct critical research on any timeline,” said GLG CEO Gemma Postlethwaite. “This tool is another step toward the future we’re building, where our clients can harness the power of our network together with AI to get more out of every expert interaction, without sacrificing nuance, depth, or trust.”    

GLG is continuing to roll out innovative capabilities that power the research experience for clients, experts, and service professionals alike. The enhanced AI Moderator is agentic, multi-modal, and compliant – emulating a human researcher that operates within the industry’s most trusted environment. It probes for nuance and follows up on experts’ answers, while adhering closely to client-set discussion guides and keeping each conversation on track. Clients can also program the AI Moderator to garner quantitative feedback through multiple choice, scale, and matrix-style questions – with data exported directly to Excel so clients can focus on uncovering insights rather than extracting metrics.

With no need for calendar coordination, AI-Moderated Calls can occur simultaneously across time zones. Experts have the flexibility to complete these engagements at their convenience – removing barriers to gathering insights from hard-to-reach experts. After calls conclude, clients can synthesize transcripts with a single click to surface key, actionable themes – with all outputs traceable to named experts and timestamps.

“We design all our products to empower GLG clients and experts to do their best work within a frictionless experience – so we partnered with them directly to build and enhance a tool that understands how a great research conversation unfolds,” said GLG Chief Product Officer John Londono. “So far, experts tell us it’s easy to use with the Moderator conducting a natural and engaging conversation, and clients say it accelerates time-to-insight to just hours. We’re excited to continue developing this offering alongside our broader suite of AI-powered capabilities.”

AI-Moderated Calls can be conducted in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, all under GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework. Learn more about GLG’s AI-Moderated Calls here, and reach out to your GLG service representative for a demo.

About GLG

GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, connecting decision makers to the precise intelligence they need to gain a strategic edge. Leveraging decades of experience and proprietary data, GLG’s global teams recruit and engage hard-to-access experts across every industry – delivering fresh, authoritative insights, events, advisors, and board placements to the world’s most recognized and influential companies. Visit GLG.com.

CONTACT: press@glgroup.com

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NYSE Content Update: Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion for ‘Factories of the Future’

NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Ashley Mastronardi delivers the pre-market update on August 6th

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average will look to extend its five-day win streak after closing at a fresh record above 54,000 on Wednesday.
• Hadrian boosted its valuation to $7.87 billion following its Series D funding round.
  • Founder + CEO Chris Power will join NYSE Live to explain how the capital will help deliver America’s defense, aerospace, and industrial systems.
• Trex (NYSE: TREX) reported an 8% year-over-year increase in net sales in its Q2 earnings report.
  • CEO Adam Zambanini will join NYSE Live to reveal what’s driving recent demand.
  • The company’s shares are up 38% year-to-date.
• America250 Commissioner Lynn Young will join NYSE Live to discuss why its America’s Field Trip contest was particularly significant.

Opening Bell

America250 celebrates America’s Field Trip 2026 Awardees

Closing Bell

Life Science Cares NY and Project Onramp celebrate their summer interns.

For market insights, IPO activity, and today’s opening bell, download the NYSE TV App: TV.NYSE.com

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Blockchain.com Secures VASP Custody Services Licence in the Cayman Islands

    Further strengthening the progress marked by MiCA and FCA milestones, Blockchain.com secures custody services licence as the Company seamlessly integrates into the island’s tech community

CAMANA BAY, Cayman Islands, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Blockchain.com has officially reached a historic regulatory milestone: we have now secured our definitive Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) custody services licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) through our Cayman Islands subsidiary.

Blockchain.com is also doubling down on our commitment to the local community. In June, Blockchain.com partnered with TechCayman, the premier facilitator for global technology companies establishing a physical presence in the region.

Through this collaboration, the Company will soon welcome its first on-island hire to support the growing operations and local ecosystem. TechCayman is providing the sponsorship framework, operational support, and local network needed to seamlessly integrate Blockchain.com into the island’s tech community.

“Our VASP custody services licence builds on the regulatory momentum we’ve established with our recent MiCA and FCA approvals” said Lane Kasselman, Co-CEO at Blockchain.com. “We believe strong regulation is essential to the long-term development of digital assets, and these approvals further strengthen our ability to serve customers across the region.”

Adding to Blockchain.com’s recent major regulatory milestones over the past 12 months – including obtaining its MiCA licence in Europe and its FCA registration in the UK – securing the CIMA licence to provide custody services and other virtual asset services powers a comprehensive suite of regulated services:

• Institutional Custody: Enterprise-grade, highly secure storage solutions built for institutional digital asset management.
• Institutional Staking: Professional infrastructure allowing organizations to seamlessly participate in network consensus and earn yield.
• Retail Staking: Accessible staking for retail users, enabling yield generation within a fully compliant environment.

Since 2011, Blockchain.com has facilitated over $1.1 trillion in transactions while serving more than 43 million verified users. Our journey has always been guided by a compliance-first mindset. From Europe and the UK to the Caribbean, clear regulatory frameworks and local engagement are essential for the long-term stability and adoption of crypto.

In December 2025, CIMA had granted a conditional approval of the Company’s application for licensing. As of 22 July 2026, all the conditions for approval have been met and the Company is duly licensed with CIMA to provide virtual asset custody services. The Company has also been approved to provide the following virtual asset services: (i) exchange between virtual assets and fiat currencies, and (ii) exchange between one or more other forms of convertible virtual assets. This licence marks a significant achievement in our regulatory process in this jurisdiction, transitioning our operations from conditional status to definitive, long-term regulatory integration within one of the world’s premier financial hubs. Prior to the grant of the licence, the Company held a VASP registration since May 2022.

About Blockchain.com 

Blockchain.com is connecting the world to the future of finance. The most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company helps millions safely access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain.com has supported over 94 million wallets, 43 million verified users, and more than $1.1 trillion in crypto transactions. Operating in more than 70 jurisdictions, Blockchain.com offers secure self-custody, institutional services, and a growing product suite aligned with global regulation and privacy standards.

Media Contact: press@blockchain.com

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DXC and Primary Launch AI-Native Zero Trust Platform for Enterprise AI

• DXC becomes the exclusive managed services partner for Primary’s AI-native Zero Trust Unified Control Plane, helping enterprises securely scale AI.
• New joint offering helps businesses and government agencies govern how AI agents and enterprise AI applications access data while strengthening security, identity, and compliance.
• DXC’s managed security services deliver consulting, implementation, integration, governance, and ongoing operations to accelerate secure AI adoption.

ASHBURN, Va., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) today announced a strategic partnership with Primary, becoming the exclusive managed services provider for Primary’s AI-native Zero Trust Platform. The joint offering helps enterprises securely deploy and scale AI by governing how AI agents and enterprise AI applications access data, while strengthening security, identity, and compliance.

As organizations move from AI experimentation to production, they face a new security challenge: governing autonomous AI systems that access sensitive enterprise data. Traditional security models were built for users, devices, and networks—not AI agents operating across complex enterprise environments.

Together, DXC and Primary are addressing that gap with a platform purpose-built for AI security and governance. Delivered through DXC’s global cybersecurity organization, the offering combines consulting, implementation, integration, governance, and managed security services to help customers operationalize AI with greater visibility, control, and trust.

“As enterprises move from AI pilots to production, security and governance must evolve just as quickly,” said Dawn-Marie Vaughan, Cybersecurity Global Offering Lead, DXC Technology. “Trusted AI requires more than securing infrastructure; it requires governing how AI systems access data, identities, and business processes. Together with Primary, we are helping customers bring Zero Trust to enterprise AI, with the visibility, control, and operational confidence needed to move from pilot to production.”

Delivered through DXC’s global cybersecurity organization, the offering helps customers:

• Secure AI agents and enterprise AI applications
• Govern AI access to enterprise data
• Strengthen identity and policy enforcement
• Reduce risk across enterprise environments
• Support compliance and regulatory requirements
• Increase visibility across users, applications, data, and AI agents

“The defining security challenge of enterprise AI is not simply seeing what an AI agent is doing—it is having enough context to determine whether that action should be allowed, as well as the corresponding infrastructure to automate enforcement of that real-time decision,” said Michael Marx, Primary’s Co-Founder + President. “Primary transforms cross-domain telemetry into continuous, context-aware policy enforcement across the full AI workflow. With DXC’s global implementation and managed security expertise, customers can establish a unified control layer that protects sensitive data, reduces operational risk, and enables AI systems to act securely within clearly defined enterprise boundaries.”

Designed for organizations operating in highly regulated environments, the platform helps address growing requirements for governance, compliance, data sovereignty, and security. By embedding Zero Trust principles directly into enterprise AI environments, DXC and Primary help customers move from experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment with the resilience and control needed to innovate with confidence. To learn more, visit our website.

About DXC Technology

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner delivering software, services, and solutions to global enterprises and public sector organizations — helping them harness AI to drive outcomes at a time of exponential change with speed. With deep expertise in Managed Infrastructure Services, Application Modernization, and Industry-Specific Software Solutions, DXC modernizes, secures, and operates some of the world’s most complex technology estates. Learn more on dxc.com.

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Shueisha Makes Global Push With MANGA MILLION, A Manga Platform Available in 100 Languages

One of Manga’s Greatest Undertakings: Nearly 400 Titles, 100 Languages, 1 Million Pages, For Free

TOKYO, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shueisha Inc., one of the world’s leading manga publishers, has launched MANGA MILLION, a new digital platform available for a limited time that provides readers worldwide with free access to manga with no registration required. In keeping with the theme of its 100th anniversary, MANGA MILLION offers a collection of one million pages of Shueisha manga in over 100 languages.

At launch, MANGA MILLION features approximately 400 manga titles, including globally acclaimed series such as “ONE PIECE”, “Naruto”, “Bleach”, “Demon Slayer”, “Jujutsu Kaisen”, anime-adapted hits including “Kingdom”, “[Oshi No Ko]”, “SPY×FAMILY” and “Chainsaw Man”, as well as beloved shojo manga such as “Nana” and “Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You”. Nearly 300 titles are being translated for the first time, including 50 titles receiving multilingual translations. The platform supports a wide range of languages, from English, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, and French to Turkish, Tagalog, Korean, Polish and more. More than 150 titles are shojo manga, showcasing one of Japan’s most influential and enduring manga genres to readers around the world.

“One of a publisher’s most important responsibilities is to connect creative talent with the public,” said Hideaki Hayashi, President and Representative Director of Shueisha. “Japanese manga has flourished through the passionate artistry of countless manga creators and the unwavering support of readers, growing into a cultural phenomenon embraced across borders around the world. MANGA MILLION was made possible through the incredible cooperation of these creators, and as we mark Shueisha’s 100th anniversary, we hope it will create new connections with readers worldwide, provide opportunities to experience the richness and diversity of manga culture, and inspire future generations of manga creators.”

Developed through a company-wide collaboration spanning all of Shueisha’s divisions, the project brings together shonen, shojo, seinen, and a wide range of other manga genres to reach readers around the world. International licensing partners from around the world provided support for this unprecedented translation endeavor, making MANGA MILLION one of the largest initiatives in Shueisha’s history.

MANGA MILLION is available worldwide for a limited time, free of charge and without registration at https://mangamillion.shueisha.co.jp/ 

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Kickstarter Launches $1 Million Culture Fund to Back Independent Creators Around the World

New initiative will support hundreds of creators across Film, Fashion, Art and Music and bring on strategic partners to expand the fund’s reach and impact

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kickstarter today announced the launch of the Kickstarter Culture Fund, a $1 million fund supporting independent creators working across Art, Fashion, Film and Music. The fund is the first to be financed entirely by Kickstarter and is open to creators around the world.

The Kickstarter Culture Fund is a key expression of the company’s recently launched Power of Belief brand campaign—an effort centered on the idea that belief is what sparks new ideas, and that those ideas come to life when people believe in each other. The Culture Fund puts Kickstarter’s own belief into action: belief in creative independence, belief in the importance of helping more creators bring more ideas into the world, and belief in the power of community to make those ideas possible. Through the fund, Kickstarter will provide direct financial contributions to live campaigns from independent creators using its platform, helping them build momentum during the critical period when they are working to rally support for their ideas.

Creators doing work within the fund’s four core categories can apply for the fund when their Kickstarter campaign is live or when they have a project page in draft.

Creators can learn more about eligibility and apply through the Kickstarter Culture Fund at https://landing.kickstarter.com/culture-fund.

Everette Taylor, Chief Executive Officer at Kickstarter said, “Creators across all industries – especially artists, musicians, filmmakers, and designers – are facing increasing challenges finding the resources and support they need to bring their ideas to life. The Kickstarter Culture Fund is our commitment to addressing that problem because when fewer ideas have the opportunity to break through, culture, the economy, and society all suffer. By putting resources directly behind creators, we’re helping more ambitious ideas find the support they need to become reality. This is just the beginning.”

Courtney Brown Warren, Kickstarter’s Chief Marketing Officer, added, “The Kickstarter Culture Fund is a meaningful expansion of the ways we have historically supported creators on their journey. This time, we’re reaching into our own pockets to provide additional resources to creators at a critical moment when it feels harder than ever to bring a creative idea to life. We believe every creator deserves the opportunity to share their ideas with the world, and the Culture Fund gives us another way to help make that possible.”

Kickstarter will expand the impact of the Culture Fund through partnerships with organizations that share its commitment to supporting independent creators. Through these partnerships, organizations will contribute dedicated funding to the Culture Fund, helping to reach more creators, creative disciplines, and communities around the world.

The first partner under the Culture Fund umbrella is Creative Scotland, the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of Scotland. Creative Scotland will be expanding its 2023 Kickstarter fund to provide renewed support for Scotland-based creators. The Creative Scotland Forward Fund will contribute £67,500 directly to eligible Kickstarter campaigns across film, comics, music, radio and podcasts, games, publishing, and design.

To be eligible, creators must be based in Scotland and have a live Kickstarter campaign in one of the fund’s eligible categories. Projects must demonstrate a clear connection to Scotland, with primary creative activity and beneficiaries based in the country. Find more details about the Creative Scotland fund here.

Additional partners will launch dedicated funding initiatives under the Kickstarter Culture Fund umbrella in the coming months.

Learn more about the Kickstarter Culture Fund here.

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Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) Reports Total Holdings of Approximately $378 Million, Includes OpenAI, Beast Industries, More Than 16,000 ETH and Nearly 302 Million WLD Tokens

Eightco treasury composition as of August 5, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, nearly 302 million WLD holdings, and $142M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $378 million

Eightco recently participated in World Foundation’s $52.5M funding round, led by Pantera with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors

OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a potential future initial public offering

Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries

EASTON, Pa., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting its position across digital assets and strategic investments in leading private technology companies.

As of August 5, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. ET, ORBS’ holdings include a $90 million investment (indirectly, through SPVs) in OpenAI, an $18 million funded investment in Beast Industries, a $1 million investment in Mythical Games, 301,971,219 Worldcoin (WLD) at $0.32 per WLD (per Coinbase), 16,278 Ethereum (ETH), and approximately $142 million in total cash and stablecoins, for total holdings of approximately $378 million.

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. This week’s top headlines include:

• On August 2, the World Bank released a report noting that artificial intelligence could enable developing countries to gain a century’s ‌worth of development in a decade if they act quickly on power, connectivity and skills gaps. “AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and they ⁠should seize it,” said Indermit Gill, the World Bank’s chief economist (Reuters).
• On July 29, it was reported that the AI boom is creating thousands of high-paying jobs for electricians, carpenters, and other skilled trades needed to build the infrastructure powering the future of AI (The New York Times).
• On July 26, it was announced that Nvidia is in talks with OpenAI to provide a roughly $250 billion backstop for OpenAI as part of a massive data-center project. The two companies are exploring a 10-gigawatt, $500 billion data center campus in southern Ohio managed by SoftBank’s SB Energy (WSJ).
• On a recent podcast episode, Sam Altman suggested that we may be approaching the “singularity,” a pivotal moment when advances in AI could accelerate rapidly, unlocking new possibilities for scientific discovery, economic growth, and human progress, while potentially leading to the emergence of superintelligent systems (Relentless).
• Last week, firms including BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs and SoFi urged Congress to pass the Clarity Act, arguing that clear rules would protect investors, give companies regulatory certainty and help the U.S. stay competitive as digital assets become more mainstream (Coindesk).

Tom Lee, Board Member of Eightco ORBS recently said during his July 27th appearance on CNBC Power Lunch: “Crypto is turning money into software; a lot of things can turn into money: loyalty points, reputation… You want a governing body to oversee all this. Now, Japan, Russia, Europe are actually passing Clarity Act-like bills. So the U.S. is risking getting behind. That’s why I think crypto is recovering, because outside the U.S., it’s being embraced.”

Eightco: 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 (25%), 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.

Digital Identity — WLD Token

Eightco holds nearly 302 million WLD, approximately 8.4% of circulating supply, the largest publicly disclosed institutional position globally and approximately 25% 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).

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.

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 of the 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, CoinFund, Discovery Capital Management, FalconX, Payward/Kraken, Pantera, and GSR, Eightco is building the infrastructure layer for human verification in the agentic AI era.

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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 8.4% of circulating supply and 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 in this press release other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including, without limitation, 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; statements that OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a potential future initial public offering; statements regarding World’s addressable revenue opportunity of $6.35 trillion across industries spanning banking, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and agentic AI; 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 social networks, banking, agentic commerce, and systems requiring verified human identity; and statements regarding the Company providing indirect exposure to defining trends through its investments in OpenAI, WLD, and Beast Industries. Words such as “plans,” “expects,” “will,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “expand,” “advance,” “develop,” “believes,” “guidance,” “target,” “may,” “remain,” “project,” “outlook,” “intend,” “estimate,” “could,” “should,” “positioned,” “view,” and other words and terms of similar meaning and expression 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 that 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 position in OpenAI equity (held through special purpose vehicles), its position in WLD, and its position in Beast Industries equity; the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements; unexpected costs, charges, or expenses that reduce the Company’s capital resources or otherwise delay capital deployment; inability to raise adequate capital to fund or scale its business operations or strategic investments; volatility in digital asset prices, including WLD and ETH, which could materially affect the value of the Company’s 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 in enterprise and consumer applications; uncertainty regarding OpenAI’s product roadmap, business model developments, and the timing or success of any IPO; 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; shifting public and governmental positions on digital assets or artificial intelligence-related industries; risks related to the timing, features, and commercial reception of OpenAI’s model releases; and risks that WLD supply dynamics may not result in anticipated market effects. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause Eightco’s actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements herein, 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, 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 any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect actual results or any change in its expectations.

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