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Joining strategic round alongside Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and World
Demonstrate that players play against verified humans in all game universes.
Investment represents Eightco’s position as an authentication and trust layer for the post-AGI world
The Company is backed 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.
EASTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today announced a strategic investment in the Series D financing of Mythical Games (“Mythical” or “Mythical Games”), participating in a deal led by Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and World Foundation. The transaction is expected to close the week of October 20. Eightco ($ORBS) is the authentication and trust layer for the post-AGI world, and works in coordination with the Worldcoin ecosystem. This strategic investment reinforces Eightco ($ORBS)’s 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 to venture-style investments that advance innovative authentication technologies.
“This investment marks another key step in our mission to become the authentication layer of the post-AGI economy,” said Dan Ives, president of Eightco ($ORBS). “Eightco’s vision extends across critical fronts, including gaming and enterprise authentication. By partnering with visionary leaders like John Linden and Mythical Games, we are uniting digital identity and entertainment, creating a trust framework that scales globally. Worldchain’s proof-of-humanity and single sign-on capabilities make it the ideal foundation for the next era of gaming and AI integration.”
Led by former Call of Duty studio head John Linden, Mythical Games is a pioneer in Web3 gaming and digital properties, 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 compliant blockchain built for human proof verification (PoH) and single sign-on, marking a major step forward in secure and verifiable gaming infrastructure.
Mythical Games’ expansion with Worldchain and World ID will enable seamless interoperability between gaming assets, wallets and identity, providing players with verified ownership of digital assets while reducing fraud and improving user onboarding. Together, Eightco, Mythical Games and World are pioneering what comes next for identity and AI-powered digital economies. The strategic alignment ensures that Mythical’s gaming ecosystem is native to the same trust and identity that Eightco is building for the broader AI economy.
Mythical already has three live games with over 1 million installs each: Pudgy Party (in partnership with Pudgy Penguins), NFL Rivals (in partnership with NFL and NFLPA), and FIFA Rivals (in partnership with FIFA and FIFPRO). These games have over 10 million combined installs and have appeared numerous times on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Mythical Marketplace has over 9.6 million funded wallets and handles over $400 million annually in NFT sales volume.
“Mythical is integrating with Worldchain to bring identity and trust to the next era of gaming,” said John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games. “Our vision is to make every player, whether in FIFA Rivals, Pudgy Party or NFL Rivals, part of a verified global economy where digital ownership and fair play are guaranteed. By partnering with Worldcoin, we can connect billions of players through secure, human-verified accounts that run seamlessly across games, markets and rewards. It’s about scaling real-world identity and on-chain utility together, turning gaming into the largest and most inclusive digital economy of the planet”.
“Mythical’s 9.6 million wallets represent an installed base of users that can leverage World ID’s more than 17 million verified user count,” Ives continued. “We hope this partnership and future agreements will drive positive game-changing functions across the verified customer base around the world.”
ABOUT EIGHTCO HOLDINGS INC.
Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) is building the authentication and trust layer for the post-AGI world. Its mission focuses on strategic pillars including consumer authentication, enterprise authentication, and gaming authentication. Through its pioneering digital asset strategies, including the first-of-its-kind Worldcoin treasury, and partnerships with leading technology innovators, Eightco is establishing a universal foundation for digital identity and Proof of Human (PoH) verification.
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ABOUT MYTHICAL GAMES
Mythical Games, recognized by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2021 and Forbes’ Best Startup Employers (2024), is a next-generation gaming company creating world-class games and enabling players to take ownership of their in-game assets through the use of blockchain technology. The team has helped develop major franchises including Call of Duty, Call of Duty Mobile, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Magic: The Gathering, EA Madden, Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery, Marvel Strike Force, Modern Warfare and Skylanders. Mythical’s games, Blankos Block Party, NFL Rivals, Pudgy Party and FIFA Rivals, are already played by millions of consumers around the world and create a new economy for gamers, allowing them to participate in a new way in games, but also trade and transact directly securely with other players around the world.
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