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Eightco Holdings Inc. ($ORBS) Makes Strategic Investment into Mythical Games to Accelerate Human Verification and Digital Identity in Gaming
Joining strategic round alongside Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and World Proving gamers are playing against verified humans across gaming universes Investment
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Joining strategic round alongside Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and World\n \n \n Proving gamers are playing against verified humans across gaming universes\n \n \n Investment represents Eightco's position as the authentication and trust layer for the post-AGI world\n \n \n The Company is supported by a select group of strategic and institutional investors including: BitMine (BMNR), MOZAYYX, World Foundation, Wedbush, Coinfund, Discovery Capital Management, FalconX, Kraken, Pantera, GSR, Brevan Howard and more\n \n \n EASTON, Pa., Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (\"Eightco\" or the \"Company\") today announced a strategic investment into Mythical Games (\"Mythical\" or \"Mythical Games\") Series D financing, participating in an investment alongside Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and World Foundation. The transaction is expected to close the week of October 20. Eightco ($ORBS) is the authentication and trust layer for the post-AGI world, working in coordination with the Worldcoin ecosystem. This strategic investment reinforces Eightco's ($ORBS) central role in shaping the future of digital identity and verification. It also aligns with Eightco's current corporate roadmap to allocate up to 1% of its treasury assets toward venture-style investments that advance breakthrough authentication technologies.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"This investment marks another key step in our mission to become the authentication layer of the post-AGI economy,\" said Dan Ives, Chairman of Eightco ($ORBS). \"Eightco's vision extends across critical fronts including enterprise and gaming authentication. By partnering with visionary leaders such as John Linden and Mythical Games, we're bridging digital identity and entertainment, creating a trust framework that scales globally. Worldchain's Proof of Human and single sign-on capabilities make it the ideal foundation for the next era of gaming and AI integration.\"\n Led by former Call of Duty studio head John Linden, Mythical Games is a pioneer in Web3 gaming and digital ownership, with a growing portfolio of leading franchises including NFL Rivals, Pudgy Penguins' Pudgy Party, and FIFA Rivals. The company plans to expand its marketplace product to integrate with Worldchain, an ERC-20-compatible blockchain built for Proof of Human (PoH) verification and single sign-on, marking a m...