Wedbush’s Dan Ives Joins Eightco to Lead $250M Worldcoin Strategy

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Wall Street tech analyst Dan Ives is joining Eightco Holdings as chairman to lead a $250 million strategy centered on Worldcoin (WLD), the token tied to Sam Altman’s biometric identity startup, World.

Key Takeaways:

  • Dan Ives has joined Eightco as chairman to lead a $250 million Worldcoin-focused treasury strategy.
  • Eightco will rebrand its ticker to ORBS after closing a $250 million private placement by mid-September.
  • Worldcoin aims to build a universal ID system using biometric verification in a future shaped by AI.

Eightco, which trades under the Nasdaq ticker OCTO, announced Monday that Ives will head its board of directors and oversee a treasury initiative focused on acquiring Worldcoin as a core digital asset, according to a Monday report by CNBC.

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