Worldcoins WLDs Surge 25% with $250M Treasuries Deals Fueling Momentum

Worldcoin’s native token, WLD, recorded a 25% rally within hours, pushing weekly gains toward 50% amid a wave of network growth and institutional backing. The surge coincided with an update that more than 530,000 new users completed Orb verifications over seven days, raising the total count above 33.5 million. The decentralized anonymized multi-party computation (AMPC) system, responsible for preserving privacy while validating uniqueness, welcomed Peru’s University of Engineering and Technology as its latest academic node alongside global partners such as KAIST and UC Berkeley.

The expansion of the AMPC framework enhances geographical diversity and decentralization, positioning Worldcoin as a leading privacy-centric identity protocol. AMPC processes encrypted iris data fragments across multiple nodes, ensuring no single entity can reconstruct user biometrics. Worldcoin reported peak throughput exceeding 50 million uniqueness checks per second on NVIDIA H100 nodes, highlighting the system’s scalability for millions of verifications daily.

Institutional interest deepened with Eightco Holdings announcing a $250 million private placement at $1.46 per share to deploy WLD as its primary reserve asset. The round featured participation from Mozayyx, Discovery Capital, Pantera, Kraken, FalconX, and others, while BitMine added $20 million via a separate stock purchase. Proceeds will finance WLD acquisitions upon deal closure on September 11, after which Eightco will rebrand its ticker to ORBS to reflect the treasury initiative.

Network metrics reflected heightened engagement: daily wallet transactions surpassed two million for the first time, and cumulative on-chain activity reached 31.6 million transactions in a week. The funding round and academic collaborations underscore Worldcoin’s dual strategy of technical innovation and institutional adoption. Observers anticipate continued volatility as the market digests the rapid user growth and treasury maneuvers, but long-term fundamentals suggest robust use cases for privacy-preserving digital identity across DeFi and beyond.