At the beginning of June 2026, the overall cryptocurrency market faced a liquidity headwind, but Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX and the Chief Investment Officer of Maelstrom Fund, went against the trend and bullishly predicted Worldcoin (WLD) would target a price of $10. Recent on-chain and holdings data show that Hayes has completely cleared his positions in Hyperliquid (HYPE) and NEAR Protocol (NEAR), which he previously promoted, shifting his capital focus entirely to WLD.

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1. New Capital Dynamics: Nasdaq-listed Company Discloses $437 Million in Assets, WLD Welcomes Historical Compliance Lockup

The direct catalyst that ignited this round of violent surge in WLD from around $0.40 came from a heavyweight official financial report disclosed by the traditional US stock market.

According to the latest asset holdings report released by Nasdaq-listed company Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) on June 4, 2026:

• Treasury Size: As of the night of June 3, 2026, the company's Treasury total assets have reached $437 million.
• WLD Lockup Details: Eightco officially confirmed it holds 283,452,700 WLD (calculated at market price of $0.55 in early June, fair value approximately $156 million), accounting for 36% of the company's entire Treasury asset balance sheet.

This holding of 283 million coins has substantively accounted for about 8.4% of the current circulating supply of WLD across the network, making it the single institution with the highest publicly disclosed holding share globally. This is the first time traditional compliant capital has adopted such an aggressive Treasury allocation strategy on 'non-blue-chip altcoins' following Tether.

The more core logic lies in that US stock market investors can now gain dual leveraged exposure to both OpenAI's primary market equity (Eightco indirectly holds $90 million in OpenAI equity) and WLD's secondary market spot by purchasing ORBS shares. This unique compliance premium forcibly locked up 8.4% of liquidity, completely reversing the long-held expectations of chip pressure on WLD in the short term.

2. Motivational Breakdown: Why Is Arthur Hayes Crazy About WLD at This Time?

According to Hayes's statements on social platforms and disclosures over the past two weeks, he chose this moment to buy and call WLD mainly based on his anticipation of actions from major players in the traditional capital market in the second half of the year:

1. The AI Century IPO Wave Is Coming: Macroeconomic news indicates that three major AI and hard tech giants, including SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are about to face a dense wave of high-valuation listings (IPOs) or public fundraising nodes.

2. Existing Risk Capital Is Being Diluted: Hayes warned that once these AI giants, with valuations in the hundreds of billions or even anchored at over a trillion, go public, they will act like a "liquidity black hole," crazily draining the risk budget that retail and institutional investors originally retained in the cryptocurrency market.

3. WLD Becomes a Unique Alternative Hedge Asset: As retail and ordinary crypto investors find it challenging to participate in the primary market subscriptions of SpaceX or OpenAI, Worldcoin (WLD), co-founded by Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI), has become the "express asset" with the highest correlation to Sam Altman and the AI ecosystem in the secondary public capital market, with excellent liquidity. Hayes believes that holding WLD is the best way to capture global AI speculative sentiment before and after companies like SpaceX officially go public.

3. Trading Behavior: "Rebalancing" Under Pessimistic Defense

The market should not simply view Hayes's remarks as unconditionally bullish; his changes in holdings over the last two weeks reveal his defensive strategy adjustments:

• Fully Cleared HYPE and NEAR: From late May to early June, Hayes's Maelstrom Fund cleared two of its top three core holdings—decentralized derivatives exchange token HYPE and AI concept public blockchain NEAR. He stated that the energy price surge caused by the Middle East situation, macro liquidity reaching a peak, and uncertainty in Wall Street policies has made the summer cryptocurrency altcoin market extremely risky.
• Concentrated Defense on Undervalued Narratives: Compared to the recently high-valued HYPE, which reached above $75 at its peak, WLD has experienced a long period of low correction (having fallen significantly from a high of $12) and is currently bottoming around $0.50. The Maelstrom Fund believes that WLD currently represents an "undervalued AI exposure vehicle," with relatively controllable downside risks and significant upside elasticity.

4. Short-term Market Technical Risk Alert

Under the dual stimulus of Hayes's continuous calls and the exposure of Eightco's financial report data, WLD's price exploded instantly, surging over 40% in a single day, with a 24-hour trading volume quickly surpassing $1 billion, peaking near $0.60.

Due to the rapid short-term impulse, the relative strength index (RSI) of WLD on a daily level entered a severe overbought area at 70 in a short time. After reaching a temporary high, short-term profit taking and left-side liquidation quickly emerged, leading to a price correction of about 10% following the overall market. Currently, WLD is fiercely trading back and forth around the key technical and psychological trench level of $0.50.

Arthur Hayes's call for WLD is a typical tactical layout that "leverages expectations of traditional tech stock IPOs to find emotional leverage in the cryptocurrency market." In the current context of overall tight liquidity in Bitcoin and mainstream altcoins, WLD successfully completed a phase of bottoming around $0.50 and awakened market attention towards the AI sector. However, in light of its massive unlocking pressure to follow, the distant target of $10 may be difficult to achieve in one go, and investors need to closely monitor changes in overall market liquidity and the validity of the $0.50 support level.

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