{"id":568142,"date":"2026-03-13T05:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/eightco-lands-125m-from-bitmine-ark-as-tom-lee-joins-board\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:54:18","slug":"eightco-lands-125m-from-bitmine-ark-as-tom-lee-joins-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/eightco-lands-125m-from-bitmine-ark-as-tom-lee-joins-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Eightco lands $125M from Bitmine, ARK as Tom Lee joins board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eightco<\/p>\n

The fresh capital from Kraken\u2019s parent company, Ark Invest, and Bitmine has backed Eightco\u2019s new bets on OpenAI and MrBeast<\/p>\n

Shares in Eightco Holdings (ORBS) jumped 12% on Thursday after it raised $125 million to back its bets in blockchain and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Eightco said<\/a> on Wednesday that crypto treasury firm Bitmine led the funding with $75 million, while Ark Invest and Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, each chipped in $25 million apiece.<\/p>\n

The company added that Bitmine chairman Tom Lee would join Eightco\u2019s board and Ark Invest\u2019s chief futurist Brett Winton also signed on as a board advisor.<\/p>\n

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The fresh capital from Kraken\u2019s parent company, Ark Invest, and Bitmine has backed Eightco\u2019s new bets on OpenAI and MrBeast Shares in Eightco Holdings (ORBS) jumped 12% on Thursday after it raised $125 million to back its bets in blockchain and artificial intelligence. Eightco said on Wednesday that crypto treasury firm Bitmine led the funding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-568142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}