Worldcoin’s WLD Surges 25% as $250M Treasury Deal Fuels Momentum

Worldcoin’s WLD tokens surged 25% in the past hours to extend weekly gains to nearly 50%, with growth across wallet metrics and users and a new engineering partner for the network’s anonymized multi-party computation system.

The University of Engineering and Technology in Peru (UTEC) has joined Worldcoin’s AMPC framework, becoming the latest academic operator alongside South Korea’s KAIST, UC Berkeley’s Responsible Decentralized Intelligence group and others, per an update last week.

The addition extended Worldcoin’s reach into Latin America and strengthened the decentralization of its verification architecture.

AMPC — short for anonymized multi-party computation — was introduced in May as a privacy upgrade for Orb verifications. Instead of storing or comparing iris codes in plaintext, the system processes data locally, splits it into encrypted fragments, and distributes it across independent nodes.

Each node only handles partial information, and the network outputs a simple binary result indicating whether a user is unique.

The setup leans on Nvidia H100 chips to scale throughput. Each node can process up to 50 million uniqueness checks per second, covering today’s base of nearly seven million verified users and leaving room for growth.

Neither the World Foundation nor developer Tools for Humanity runs nodes directly, a deliberate step to distance operations from the project’s founders and spread oversight across trusted institutions.

Institutional backing for the project deepened in parallel. Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: OCTO) on Monday announced a $250 million private placement at $1.46 per share to implement what it called a first-of-its-kind Worldcoin treasury strategy. An additional $20 million came from BitMine through a separate stock purchase.

Proceeds will be used to acquire WLD, with the token set to become Eightco’s primary reserve asset.

The round was led by MOZAYYX with participation from World Foundation, Discovery Capital, Pantera, Kraken, FalconX, Brevan Howard and others. Eightco will change its Nasdaq ticker to “ORBS” once the deal closes on Sept. 11.

The partner expansion and institutional interest come during a period of strong network traction. More than 530,000 new users verified in the past seven days, the highest jump in weeks, lifting the total above 33.5 million.

Wallet activity also set records, with 31.6 million transactions processed over the same period and daily volumes exceeding two million for the first time.