This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy.
There’s nothing cozier than a warm bowl of soup on a chilly day! These are my top 9 reader-favorite soup recipes. And honestly? The hardest part for me about these soups isn’t making them, it’s about choosing which one to make!
Soup Season Favorites
There’s nothing better than a warm bowl of soup when the weather turns chilly. Over the years, a few recipes have become true reader favorites. Not just in my home, but across the site. These soup recipes are the ones that bring in the most love, traffic, and rave reviews, making them the top 9 soup recipes you’ll ever need.
Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
My most popular soup ever! Juicy chicken, fresh veggies, and tender noodles come together in under 30 minutes. This recipe is a classic you’ll make on repeat all year long.
This Olive Garden copycat is a traffic superstar! Italian sausage, bacon, potatoes, and kale simmer together in a creamy broth for the ultimate cozy meal.
One of the most searched and saved recipes on the site! This hearty, cheesy soup has ground beef, potatoes, and veggies for all the flavors of a cheeseburger in a warm bowl.
Experience the wild west in a bowl with this Cowboy Hamburger Soup recipe! This comforting blend features seasoned ground beef, veggies, and a touch of Tex-Mex, simmered to perfection in a hearty beef broth.
You are going to fall in love with this quick and easy 8 Can Chicken Taco Soup recipe! It is the perfect dinner when there is no time to run to the grocery store but the family needs dinner, like, NOW. Grab these ingredients right out of your pantry and whip up a delicious and flavorful soup!
This crock pot crack potato soup is the best and easiest soup you will ever make! It’s loaded with creamy cheese, potatoes, and savory bacon, all seasoned to perfection! Your family will love how it tastes!
Slow cooker Pasta e Fagioli soup is a rich and hearty Italian soup loaded with pasta, vegetables, beans, and lean ground beef. It’s hearty, comforting, and oh so delicious!
Loved by You (and Me!): These soups aren’t just my go-tos, they’re the ones readers rave about the most.
Something for Every Craving: From cheesy favorites to creamy Italian bowls to slow cooker recipes with a little kick, there’s a soup here for every kind of night.
Easy, Cozy, Weeknight Wins: These recipes are so easy to make and I’m not kidding when I say that my kids love them ALL. And when I can make some of them in the crockpot? Even better!
Back in June, I added Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) to my Stocks and Shares ISA after it tanked 35% in a day.
Since then, it’s risen 15%, but this is an incredibly volatile stock. It can rise or fall 25% in the blink of an eye.
For example, it’s up 100% year to date, but in this time has also endured a 63% peak-to-trough decline, as well as two 35% drawdowns.
The recent share price chart basically looks like a hospital heart monitor, spiking up and down.
Yet, I’m still bullish on the stock long term. Here’s why.
Direct-to-consumer health platform
Hims & Hers is a digital health and wellness platform that connects consumers to medical care for things like hair loss, skin issues, sexual health, mental health, and weight management.
It’s known for its personalised treatment plans, including customised dosages of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. The company is also steadily expanding its own capabilities, from blood lab testing to buying its own peptide plant.
Hims & Hers’ mission is to “make healthcare accessible, more affordable, and more personal“.
Rapid growth
I’m bullish for a few reasons. Firstly, growth is very strong. In Q2, revenue soared 73% to $545m, while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $82.2m. Wall Street expects full-year revenue to jump 59% to around $2.3bn.
The number of subscribers grew 31% to over 2.4m in Q2, with nearly 1.5m of those receiving personalised treatments. And subscribers using a personalised plan for multiple conditions surged 170% to over 500,000. This is very encouraging.
More people than ever are turning to our platform for treatment, and we’re seeing rapid growth in customers using personalised plans. Our model is working and accelerating.
Hims & Hers Health
Looking ahead, management is aiming for $6.5bn in revenue and $1.3bn in adjusted EBITDA by 2030. This will be driven by expanding into new areas like longevity and hormonal health, as well as growing internationally. It recently acquired ZAVA, one of the largest online doctors in the UK and Europe.
The valuation also doesn’t look crazy to me. With a $10.9bn market cap, the stock’s trading at four times next year’s forecast sales, while profits are growing even as the company invests heavily for growth.
Lawsuits
One potential risk here, though, is Novo Nordisk possibly suing Hims & Hers for continuing to sell personalised doses of semaglutide (the active ingredient in Wegovy). It terminated a partnership with the firm over this issue in June.
Perhaps tellingly, though, Novo Nordisk hasn’t done this yet, and an early September court dismissal of a similar lawsuit brought by Eli Lilly against a telehealth company has recently boosted Hims & Hers stock.
Nevertheless, there’s potential legal risk if Novo Nordisk decides to pursue this route.
Big trends
Management says it’s building “for a future where a Hims & Hers membership could cover the majority of conditions that impact an individual’s everyday health“. And it wants the platform to become one where people go to prevent issues rather than just treat them.
This should see the firm tap into a massive global wellness trend among Millennials and Gen Z (valued as a highly fragmented $2trn industry by McKinsey).
To sum up, Hims & Hers is founder-led, innovative, growing strongly, pursuing a massive market opportunity, and isn’t ridiculously valued. I think it’s well worth considering.
SACRAMENTO — A Riverside County lawmaker accused of driving drunk after a car crash, but cleared by a blood test, took the first step Monday toward suing the Sacramento Police Department, saying officers had tarnished her reputation.
After Sen. Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) was broadsided by an SUV near the Capitol in May, Sacramento police interviewed the 37-year-old lawmaker for hours at a Kaiser Permanente hospital before citing her on suspicion of driving under the influence. Prosecutors declined to file charges after the toxicology results of a blood test revealed no “measurable amount of alcohol or drugs.”
In an 11-page filing Monday, Cervantes alleged that officers had retaliated against her over a bill that would sharply curtail how police can store data gathered by automated license plate readers, a proposal opposed by more than a dozen law enforcement agencies.
The filing also alleges that the police treated Cervantes, who is gay and Latina, differently than the white woman driver who ran a stop sign and broadsided her car.
“This is not only about what happened to me — it’s about accountability,” Cervantes said in a prepared statement. “No Californian should be falsely arrested, defamed, or retaliated against because of who they are or what they stand for.”
Cervantes, a first-year state senator, has said since the crash that she did nothing wrong. She represents the 31st Senate District, which covers portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and chairs the Senate elections committee.
Cervantes’ lawyer, James Quadra, said the Sacramento police had tried to “destroy the reputation of an exemplary member of the state Senate,” and that the department’s “egregious misconduct” includes false arrest, intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation.
A representative for the Sacramento Police Department declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
After news broke of the crash, the Sacramento Police Department told reporters that they had “observed objective signs of intoxication” after speaking to Cervantes at the hospital. She said in her filing that the police had asked her to conduct a test gauging her eyes’ reaction to stimulus, a “less accurate and subjective test” than the blood test she requested.
The toxicology screen had “completely exonerated” Cervantes, the filing said, but the police department had already “released false information to the press claiming that Senator Cervantes had driven while under the influence of drugs.”
The filing alleges that one police officer turned off his body camera for about five minutes while answering a call on his cell phone. The filing also said that the department failed to produce body camera footage from a sergeant who also came to the hospital.
Clairo fronts Valentino’s fall-winter 2025 Le Méta Théâtre Des Intimités campaign. Photo: Glen Luchford / Valentino
What happens when fashion slips into the bathroom? Valentino answers with Le Méta Théâtre Des Intimités, the fall-winter 2025 campaign staged inside a glowing red restroom. Creative director Alessandro Michele turns the intimate into the theatrical, showing how clothing becomes a second skin. Lensed by Glen Luchford, it’s fragile, bold, and political all at once.
Valentino Fall/Winter 2025 Campaign
The campaign is led by singer Clairo, who wears a delicate lace number and carries the new Panthea shoulder bag. It’s a Valentino piece with a gold chain and sculpted leather. Around her, characters drift through tiled corridors and mirrored sinks, their looks caught between elegance and edge.
There are leopard coats trimmed with faux fur, satin dresses over sheer lace, oversized jewels, and sculptural tailoring that spotlight silhouette. The bathroom becomes a stage, a liminal space where identity is performed and unmasked.
It’s uncanny, a little voyeuristic, yet impossibly chic. Each pose is a fragment of a larger story, capturing fashion as both desire and defiance. Valentino is inviting us into a shared theatre where intimacy collides with spectacle. This is a script written in red, lace, and motion.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
Politico released the below map that showed the scheme between Iran and Venezuela to push drugs and human trafficking throughout the world.
Obama so desperately wanted the Iran deal that he shut down investigations into this criminal scheme between the Iranian regime, its terrorist organization Hezbollah and the Venezuelan regime led by crook Maduro.
Obama did all he could to support terrorists, criminal regimes and despots but today President Trump is doing all he can to destroy these evil entities.
[In 2019 we reported which is still accurate today] Tonight the Maduro regime in Venezuela is being asked to leave by its own people. It’s killing its own people and pushing socialist ideas while its people are eating from garbage cans to stay alive –
As the Gallagher brothers sell out multiple stadiums across the US and take America on a new musical Oasis for another generation, FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee has the pleasure of welcoming legendary British art photographer and music video director Michael Spencer Jones. Over the decades, he has collaborated with some of the world’s most iconic artists, ranging from U2, Leonard Cohen, Tom Jones, Oasis, and Richard Ashcroft / The Verve. And now he’s offering us ‘a view from within”, an intimate look at his life, legacy and larger-than-life backstories during his time working with Oasis. Known for his love of surrealism, Dalí and Magritte, Mr. Jones has published an extensive digitised version of his work spanning decades in a one-of-a-kind book of living history. “Definitely Maybe: A View From Within” can be found at www.https://www.spellboundgalleries.com/
Many people turn to the fiery blend of roots and citrus as a quick health kick to start the day, often in the form of a ginger shot. But as an avid Ginger Shot fan myself, I was shocked to realise how wasteful buying small shots for £1-£2 a go was. In a bid to tighten my budget and ditch single-use plastics, I experimented with homemade recipes. And I’ve finally found a winner.
When the colder weather often brings a rise in cold and flu, it’s no wonder these shots are growing in popularity. Ginger and turmeric have long histories in traditional remedies; both roots are rich in natural compounds with links to easing nausea and supporting digestion. London nutritionist Clariss Lenherr said: “Ginger possesses anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties attributed to compounds such as gingerol, so ginger shots may help support a healthy immune system.” Making ginger shots at home is straightforward, and after several attempts using various ingredients such as apple juice, carrots, oranges and honey, I’ve simplified my recipe to just four natural components.
The recipe, which is similar to Aline Cueni’s formula of the ‘Aline Made blog’, calls upon lemon juice, an apple, turmeric, root ginger, and water.
Aline also suggests sweetening the mixture with date syrup, but I don’t think you need it. A drizzle of honey will do.
To make this fiery juice at home, you will need a blender and a sieve to remove the pulp from the ginger. It’s best blended with the skin left on the ginger.
Wash the ginger and apple, then chop both ingredients into small pieces. Add them to a blender and follow with the juice of half a lemon, avoiding the pips.
Pour in one cup of tap water and add the turmeric before securing the lid and blitzing everything for a few seconds.
The colour should be a bold yellow-orange hue with a thick consistency.
Place a sieve over a bowl or jug and pour the mixture into it. Allow the liquid to sieve through, using the back of a spoon to push it along if needed.
Transfer the finished ginger shot mixture to a clean, dry glass bottle or drink straight away. If you don’t like it as fiery, dilute the mixture with more water or add a drizzle of honey or syrup to sweeten it.
The mixture should make around eight servings. Store in the fridge for three to five days, and always shake the mixture well before pouring.
But what if you could enjoy these valuable perks forever, without having to retain your status through your stay activity every year?
You’d then have the freedom of exploring other hotel brands and accommodation types, all while taking comfort in your VIP treatment anytime you do stay with a Marriott.
As it turns out, Marriott Bonvoy also has a lifetime elite status program, which gives you elite-level perks during stays for the rest of your life.
Each lifetime status level requires you to both earn a certain number of elite qualifying nights throughout the history of your loyalty account, as well as hold that status level for a certain number of years in total:
Lifetime Silver Elite: 250 elite qualifying nights + five years of Silver Elite
Lifetime Gold Elite: 400 elite qualifying nights + seven years of Gold Elite
Lifetime Platinum Elite: 600 elite qualifying nights + 10 years of Platinum Elite
(There are also some Marriott Bonvoy members with Lifetime Titanium Elite status, although that’s a grandfathered status level from the days of the Marriott/Starwood merger that is no longer available to be earned.)
You can find your Marriott Bonvoy lifetime status tracker on the online dashboard or the mobile app. Fill up both counters – one for elite qualifying nights and one for status years – to progress to the next tier of lifetime status.
Which Nights & Years Count Towards Marriott Lifetime Status?
All Marriott Bonvoy elite qualifying nights and status qualifications should count towards your lifetime status totals, regardless of whether you earned them through organic stay activity, credit cards, promotions, or one-time gestures from the program itself.
Meanwhile, if you were to get both a personal and business US-issued Bonvoy card, you’d earn 30 elite nights every year towards your lifetime status totals. You can increase this number to 40 if you hold the Amex US Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card and the Amex US Marriott Bonvoy Business Card, since the former card comes with 25 elite nights and the latter with 15.
Similarly, your lifetime elite nights also encompass any bonus nights earned from a Double Elite Nights promotion, which typically comes around once a year, usually at the beginning of the year.
When it comes to Lifetime Elite years, Marriott counts both the year in which you earn elite status and any calendar years in which you continue to hold that status.
For example, if you reach Platinum Elite in 2024 by earning 50 elite nights, then both 2024 (qualification year) and 2025 (benefits carried all year) would almost certainly count toward your Lifetime Platinum tally.
As for 2026, your Platinum benefits would still be in effect through February, so Marriott’s terms suggest it may also count as an eligible year.
The language doesn’t require that you retain status for the entire calendar year, but since it isn’t crystal clear, it’s best to treat 2026 as a possible bonus year rather than a guarantee.
It also doesn’t matter how you earn that status in the first place.
Whether you’ve earned through hotel stays, promotions, or complimentary credit card perks.
If you hold either card continuously, each year would count toward your Lifetime Gold tally.
Similarly, if you hold the U.S. Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card, the complimentary Platinum Elite status it provides will count toward the 10 years required for Lifetime Platinum Elite.
Earn years towards Lifetime Elite Status simply by holding a credit card
Marriott Lifetime Status vs. Earned Status
Besides the permanent nature of lifetime status, are there any other major differences between lifetime status and regular status earned every year?
The only notable difference lies in the Annual Choice Benefit: only Marriott Bonvoy members who cross the 50- or 75-night thresholds in a calendar year are eligible to choose an Annual Choice Benefit, such as a set of five Nightly Upgrade Awards.
Even if you’re a Lifetime Platinum Elite member, you won’t receive a choice benefit unless you actually stay 50 elite nights in a year. This creates some incentive for continued loyalty after you’ve achieved lifetime status.
In terms of the actual hotel experience, there shouldn’t be any difference between a Platinum Elite and a Lifetime Platinum Elite member in terms of how they’re treated at a hotel.
It’s not quite clear whether or not hotels can see that you’re a lifetime status member, and even if they could, there’s nothing in the terms and conditions that entitles lifetime status members to anything more than regular earned status members.
Since Platinum Elite status is where you get the most meaningful benefits like free breakfast and the occasional suite upgrade, it can make sense to pursue Lifetime Platinum Elite as a long-term objective.
By contrast, Lifetime Silver Elite and Lifetime Gold Elite don’t really add much value — they’re best viewed as stepping stones.
That said, it’s worth pausing before committing to this “status marathon.”
Marriott Bonvoy has been trending downhill in recent years: award redemptions often cost more, and cash rates are sometimes higher than comparable chains in markets like Asia or the Middle East.
Chasing status with mattress runs just for the sake of qualifying may not be the best use of your time or money.
If you stay 30-35 nights a year at hotels, you can reach Lifetime Platinum Elite status after about 10 years’ time.
As a Canadian, you’d still need to stay 30-35 nights a year even with the help of Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card, a fairly steep hurdle for most travellers.
Simply holding the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card for 10 years would cover your 10 years of Platinum Elite status.
Pair it with the US Bonvoy Business Card, and you’ll also stack up 400 nights along the way, leaving you with just 200 nights to earn organically — about 20 nights a year.
Alternatively, hold the pair for 15 years without travelling at all and you’d reach the 600-night threshold entirely through credit cards. (But really, why pay the fees if you aren’t traveling and making use of the perks?)
For those who are close to the nights requirement but still lacking years, you could pause at Year 8, coast into Year 9 without lifting a finger, and even get Year 10 if your benefits carry into the following calendar year.
Speaking personally, I’m sitting at 458 nights and six years of Platinum.
I reached Titanium this year, which means 2026 will bump me to seven eligible years.
In 2027, if Marriott continues to offer soft landing policy, I’ll be downgraded just one tier to Platinum and get credit for an eighth year
In 2028, I’ll make a push for Platinum again, which would bump me to nine.
By 2029, I’d hit 10 Platinum years and lock in Lifetime Platinum status. Thanks to credit card nights and regular travel, the nights side doesn’t worry me much, it’s really just a matter of timing the years right.
For many Marriott loyalists, Lifetime Platinum Elite is an achievable target with some planning.
The key is to balance the pursuit with your actual travel needs: don’t go out of your way to mattress-run unless you’re very close to hitting a milestone, and keep in mind that flexibility with other hotel chains can sometimes be just as rewarding.
Once you’ve locked in Lifetime Platinum, you’ll always have a safety net of benefits whenever you return to Marriott, while giving yourself the freedom to explore elsewhere.
In the end, Lifetime Platinum is worth chasing only if it fits naturally into your travel patterns or if you can shortcut the journey with US credit cards.
If you’re starting from scratch, it’s usually better to focus on maximizing overall hotel value and stay flexibility rather than forcing a Marriott-only strategy.
Conclusion
Marriott Bonvoy offers a fairly approachable lifetime elite status program to complement its regular elite structure, and Lifetime Platinum Elite status would be a worthy goal for anyone who’s serious about leveraging rewards points to raise their travel game in the long run.
With the right credit card setup in place, many travellers wouldn’t need to go too far out of their way to reach Lifetime Platinum Elite. As long as you intend to retain Platinum Elite status year after year, you’ll get there eventually after a decade or so.
By leveraging promotions that offer double elite qualifying nights, you can boost your numbers and reach the night thresholds much faster.
A new animated movie made mainly with AI could challenge the time and resources it takes to put together a Hollywood production.
According to a Sunday report from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is giving its tools and computing resources to a new feature-length movie called “Critterz,”which follows the journey of forest creatures who embark on a quest after a stranger intrudes on their home.
Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, conceptualized “Critterz” three years ago while experimenting with OpenAI’s image generation tool Dall-E. It was originally a short film funded by OpenAI that was released in 2023. Nelson has since joined forces with movie production companies in London and Los Angeles to make his vision of a feature film a reality.It’s unclear if OpenAI will be marketing the full-length movie.
Nelson says that the film will demonstrate what OpenAI’s tools can do, creating a highly visible (the plan is to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May) use case for the technology.
“OpenAI can say what its tools do all day long, but it’s much more impactful if someone does it,” Nelson told WSJ. “That’s a much better case study than me building a demo.”
After being introduced at Cannes, “Critterz” is expected to be released in theaters globally next year. In a press release on Monday, Vertigo Films said the film will be funded by Vertigo’s Paris-based parent company, Federation Studios.
With a budget of less than $30 million, the movie would cost less to make than a standard Hollywood film. For reference, major Hollywood productions like Disney’s “Tangled” cost over $200 million to create, while the studio’s “Tarzan” cost $130 million. If successful, it could cause Hollywood to take notice and use AI for future films.
“Critterz” would also take less time to produce: The production team is aiming to create it in nine months instead of the standard three to four years. Production has started, with casting decisions aiming to go out within the next few weeks.
Other Hollywood studios have already begun experimenting with AI. In July, Netflix disclosed that it had used AI to generate a scene on an Argentine TV show called “El Eternauta.” Meanwhile, Disney has experimented with tapping into AI to create clones or digital body doubles of actors.
Entertainment companies have also pushed back against unauthorized AI use. In June, Disney and Universal filed the first major Hollywood lawsuit against AI startup Midjourney, alleging that the startup copied its characters from copyrighted works without permission.
A new animated movie made mainly with AI could challenge the time and resources it takes to put together a Hollywood production.
According to a Sunday report from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is giving its tools and computing resources to a new feature-length movie called “Critterz,”which follows the journey of forest creatures who embark on a quest after a stranger intrudes on their home.
Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, conceptualized “Critterz” three years ago while experimenting with OpenAI’s image generation tool Dall-E. It was originally a short film funded by OpenAI that was released in 2023. Nelson has since joined forces with movie production companies in London and Los Angeles to make his vision of a feature film a reality.It’s unclear if OpenAI will be marketing the full-length movie.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is the latest cryptocurrency to get the so-called treasury strategy treatment — when a publicly traded company uses a significant amount of cash on its balance sheet to buy digital assets.
On Monday, Eightco surged more than 3,000%, from $18 per share to $45 per share, off the announcement that it will purchase $270 million of Worldcoin — while Worldcoin skyrocketed nearly 50%, from $1.03 to $1.53.
The digital identity cryptocurrency project wants to authenticate every person on Earth by scanning their irises, generating a unique “IrisCode” but not, the company says, saving their biometric data.
Sam Altman co-founded Worldcoin in 2019 with the goal of verifying “humaness.” AFP via Getty Images
Eightco will change its name to Orbs, an homage to the Worldcoin mission, when the deal officially closes later this week, pending Nasdaq’s approval.
“This is not just a crypto token strategy … this is tech infrastructure,” Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities analyst and Eightco’s new chairman, told me in an exclusive interview. “There is a ceiling on the future of AI without true human proof identification … Worldcoin is integral to the AI buildout.”
Ives and investor Tom Lee believe Worldcoin’s appeal lies in its ability to “verify humanness” — that a user is a person and not a bot filling out surveys, taking online exams, signing documents or even appearing on dating apps.
Tom Lee (left) and Dan Ives, pictured with a device that scans irises, are betting on Worldcoin’s popularity increasing in the coming years. Courtesy of Marcy Simon
In a world increasingly dominated by AI agents and bots, delineating between humanity and artificial intelligence will become incredibly valuable.
“On a dating app you might match with a tennis pro or supermodel but it’s a robot … on a future dating app, you’ll have an icon that says ‘proof of human,’” said Lee, who is the chairman of BitMine — which invested $20 million in Eightco.
This story is part of NYNext, an indispensable insider insight into the innovations, moonshots and political chess moves that matter most to NYC’s power players (and those who aspire to be).
“For companies looking to make an advertising push, they’ll shell out a lot more for ads targeted to verified humans,” Lee added.
Of course, the idea of Worldcoin scanning everyone’s iris might sounds downright dystopian to some critics.
But Lee counters this concern, arguing that, unlike companies such as Apple, which store biometric data, Worldcoin generates a cryptographic hash — a zero-knowledge proof that confirms humanness without storing or exposing personal biometric information.
The World App stores this IrisCode data on the Worldcoin blockchain, promising privacy.
Worldcoin has scanned 16 million people’s irises and aims to reach 100 million this year. Worldcoin
“This is the intersection of AI and crypto,” Ives said.
However, Worldcoin already faces regulatory scrutiny in countries like Portugal and temporary bans in China, Spain and Hong Kong over biometric data privacy concerns.
As dozens of companies embrace Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) by holding Bitcoin and Ethereum, Eightco’s choice of Worldcoin as its primary treasury asset is strategic because its governance token status allows holders to influence the World Network’s development, potentially shaping security and policy decisions.
Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are easily purchased on user-friendly platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood, acquiring Worldcoin requires you scan your iris or create a digital wallet and purchase it through another digital coin like Ethereum.
Worldcoin, co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania in 2019, has verified over 16 million human identities and aims to reach 100 million users in the next year as it scales its global digital identity network. Users who verify their identity receive tokens to encourage participation.
“AI and Wall Street are moving to the blockchain,” Ives said.
