{"id":77084,"date":"2026-03-20T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77084"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:31:32","slug":"eightcos-90m-openai-bet-brings-tom-lee-to-board-but-stock-cant-break-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77084","title":{"rendered":"Eightco&#8217;s $90M OpenAI Bet Brings Tom Lee To Board But Stock Can&#8217;t Break $1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Eightco Holdings<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ORBS\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ORBS\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ORBS\">ORBS<\/a>) invested an additional $40 million in OpenAI, bringing total commitment to $90 million and adding <strong>Bitmine<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BMNR\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\">BMNR<\/a>) Chairman <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> to its board.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The OpenAI Investment<\/h3>\n<p>OpenAI now represents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/eightco-nasdaq-orbs-invests-additional-40-million-into-openai-bringing-total-openai-investment-to-90-million-302719566.html\">approximately<\/a> 30% of Eightco\u2019s total treasury position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s holdings include 277.2 million WLD tokens, 11,068 ETH, and $76 million in cash and stablecoins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eightco holds nearly 10% of current WLD supply in circulation, positioning it as the largest public market participant in the Worldcoin ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to high-growth private companies has historically been limited to institutional investors, and we\u2019re proud to offer retail investors meaningful exposure to one of the most important AI companies in the world,\u201d said <strong>Kevin O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, CEO of Eightco.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently announced $125 million in new funding commitments led by $75 million from &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51383756\/eightcos-90m-openai-bet-brings-tom-lee-to-board-but-stock-cant-break-1?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Eightco's\" openai bet brings tom lee to board but stock can break>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ:ORBS) invested an additional $40 million in OpenAI, bringing total commitment to $90 million and adding Bitmine (NYSE:BMNR) Chairman Tom Lee to its board. The OpenAI Investment OpenAI now represents approximately 30% of Eightco\u2019s total treasury position.\u00a0 The company\u2019s holdings include 277.2 million WLD tokens, 11,068 ETH, and $76 million in cash and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}