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The story behind Worldcoin

Sam Altman, already running OpenAI, co-founded World with Alex Blania on a bet that the same AI making convincing fake humans online would make proving you are a real one increasingly valuable. It launched publicly in July 2023 and signed up tens of millions of people worldwide within a couple of years, often through mobile Orb-verification drives in countries where the free token grant was itself a meaningful incentive to sign up. That growth ran straight into resistance: regulators in Spain, Kenya, Hong Kong and elsewhere restricted or investigated the biometric collection, and the project has repeatedly changed how iris data is processed and where it is stored in response to those objections, an ongoing negotiation between the project's ambitions and what different governments will actually permit.

What WLD is used for

Verify with an Orb and you receive WLD as a grant, plus access to the World App for payments. Beyond that, third-party applications can check your World credential to confirm you are a unique person rather than a bot or an AI-generated account — a growing need as automated accounts get harder to tell apart from real ones, whether the context is voting in an online poll, claiming an airdrop, or simply proving you are not a bot to a website.

Worldcoin in the market today

Worldcoin leads the proof-of-personhood category, an idea whose urgency has only grown alongside AI-generated content, but it carries the privacy scrutiny that comes with any project asking for your biometrics, and it faces rivals pursuing less invasive ways to prove the same thing. Whether people are ultimately comfortable trading an iris scan for a digital credential, at the scale World needs to become genuinely global infrastructure, remains an open question that regulatory pushback has so far kept unresolved.

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