Wall Street Buys $250M Worldcoin in Crazy Bet: AI Tokens like $SUBBD Primed to Soar

bitcoinistPublished on 2025-09-10Last updated on 2025-09-10

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Worldcoin – Sam Altman’s crypto-AI baby – surged unexpectedly over the past 48 hours, prompted by a major exchange listing...

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Worldcoin – Sam Altman’s crypto-AI baby – surged unexpectedly over the past 48 hours, prompted by a major exchange listing and a bold new crypto treasury move.

Is $WLD seeing a major breakthrough? Is the new momentum sustainable – and will it boost other promising AI tokens like $SUBBD?

Let’s see!

Worldcoin’s Momentum Accelerates with Upbit Listing and $250M Institutional Bet

On September 9, 2025, Worldcoin (WLD) soared by over 20% following its listing on Upbit, South Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange. $WLD trading pairs in $KRW,$BTC, and $USDT went live, with deposits and withdrawals across Ethereum, Optimism, and its native blockchain.

Upbit market support WLD

More than a simple expansion, adding $WLD signals renewed confidence in the crypto economy after previous regulatory hurdles.

It could also be a vote of confidence in Altman’s ambitious Worldcoin project and the ‘universal human ID’ Altman wants to unroll to, well, the entire world.

The real human network

Using Orbs, World – the project itself – has already processed IDs for over 15M individuals.

Eightco’s Game-Changing Commitment Indicates Institutional Shift

Just as $WLD’s momentum began, U.S.-listed firm Eightco Holdings unveiled a bold strategic pivot: a $250M private placement to adopt Worldcoin as its primary treasury asset.

First WLD treasury

That move was then bolstered by a $20M strategic investment from BitMine. The company also appointed Wall Street analyst Dan Ives as chairman and plans to rebrand its ticker to $ORBS, signaling its full transformation.

By anchoring its treasury in human-centric digital identity, the company is betting on a future where tokens like $WLD function as infrastructure for entire ecosystems, not just mere assets to trade.

This strategy raises both potential and risk, as success hinges on long-term adoption and trust in biometric systems.

For now, the plan is working. Due to a combination of pro-$WLD news, the token surged. Trading volume increased by 257% and the token price rose dramatically.

WLD token price

That growth might not be done yet; some analysts project $WLD could climb 200% to $4, buoyed by diminished circulating supply and institutional demand.

Worldcoin stands at the intersection of AI and blockchain with its unique biometric ‘Proof-of-Human’ system, the eye-scanning Orbs that verify identity without compromising privacy. The project provides foundational infrastructure that many institutional players now believe will be indispensable.

And Worldcoin isn’t the only AI project ready to make big moves. The SUBBD platform brings AI tools to an $85B content creation industry and could transform the market.

SUBBD Token ($SUBBD) – Bringing AI Tools to $85B Content Subscription Market

SUBBD Token ($SUBBD) functions as the native utility token for the SUBBD platform, one of the hottest projects around. SUBBD brings blockchain technology and AI tools to the subscription content creation market, already an $85B market.

SUBBD token

On the SUBBD platform, fans and creators get new ways to interact with each other using the $SUBBD token. With $SUBBD, users gain access to exclusive content like:

  • VIP staking benefits
  • Platform discounts
  • Platform multipliers
  • Early access

There’s also a complete AI toolset, including automated content management and even programmable AI livestreams and AI influencers. What is SUBBD? It’s a project that gives human content creators advanced AI tools to boost and improve their workflows.

Learn how to buy $SUBBD in the ongoing presale, which is past $1.1M. Tokens are priced at $0.0564.

Get ahead in the AI crypto game by joining the SUBBD Token presale.

Worldcoin’s Expanding Vision

Upbit’s strategic listing and Eightco’s historic $250M treasury demonstrate Worldcoin’s upwards trajectory. Its biometric identity infrastructure aligns neatly with the digital-first, AI-heavy future – a future Sam Altman is heavily invested in creating.

Whether this translates into sustained momentum or signals speculative fever remains to be seen – but it positions projects like $SUBBD for immediate success.

As always, do your own research. This isn’t financial advice.

Authored by Bogdan Patru, Bitcoinist – https://bitcoinist.com/wall-street-buys-250m-worldcoin-subbd-primed-to-soar/

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As a crypto writer, Bogdan’s responsibilities are split between researching and writing articles and entertaining the team with his humor bordering on the politically incorrect, an aspiring Bill Burr, if you will. Thanks to his 12+ years of writing experience in just as many fields, including tech, cybersecurity, modelling, fitness, crypto, and other topics-that-shall-not-be-named, he's become a genuine asset to the team. While his position as a senior writer at PrivacyAffairs thought him valuable lessons about the power of self-management, his entire writing career was and is an exercise in self-improvement. Now, he's ready to sink his teeth into crypto and teach people how to take control of their own money on the blockchain. With fiat as an eternally devaluing currency, Bitcoin and altcoins seem like the best-fitting alternative for Bogdan. Bogdan’s biggest professional accomplishment, aside from securing a position as a main writer for Bitcoinist, was his 5-year run as a writing manager at Blackwood Productions, where he coordinated a team of four writers. During that time, he learned the value of teamwork and that of creating a working environment that breeds efficiency, positivity, and friendship.

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