Arthur Hayes Family Office: Optimistic about WLD, August target price $5

Source: Maelstrom, Arthur Hayes Family Office; Translation: @金色财经xz

When SpaceX secretly filed its S-1 prospectus on April 1, high-beta aerospace stocks surged collectively. Rocket Lab (RKLB) soared 165%.

Anthropic has now submitted an application. The AI super IPO is imminent—and the market seems to be overlooking a purely proxy target.

Short Trap

Amid the booming AI bull market, $WLD has been declining year-to-date (YTD). In March, Worldcoin completed a $65 million OTC financing round, with $25 million locked for six months. Since then, due to OTC participants hedging their exposure and long/short traders continuously suppressing the chart with a one-sided decline, perpetual contract funding rates have turned deeply negative. This is textbook short squeeze buildup. But these shorts may meet a grim end.

On May 27, WLD/OAI DAT Eightco (ORBS) reported approximately $144 million in cash and cash equivalents on its balance sheet. Even allocating a tiny portion of that to WLD could trigger a reflexive cycle, especially with the scheduled daily unlock rate dropping 43% on July 24. ORBS currently holds about 283 million WLD, roughly 8.3% of the circulating supply—and this is just the beginning.

Altman’s Bullish Options

Capital is frantically chasing exposure to Anthropic and OpenAI. Nested special purpose vehicles (SPVs) are charging exorbitant fees. Valuations have reached hundreds of billions, even trillions of dollars.

Meanwhile, WLD’s unlocked market cap is only $2 billion.

In terms of AI valuation, this is a small-cap stock. It has asymmetric upside potential.

WLD doesn’t usually fluctuate— but once it starts, it can surge dramatically. Maelstrom’s target price: reach $5 before August.

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