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0.00%Worldcoin is a project co-founded by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman that aims to build a global identity and financial network, with WLD as its token. Its central and most debated feature is World ID, a proof-of-personhood system that verifies a user is a unique human by scanning their iris with a device called the Orb, generating a private cryptographic credential rather than storing the image. The stated goal is to distinguish real people from bots in an age of advanced AI and to enable applications such as fair token distribution and, potentially, universal basic income. Worldcoin distributed WLD to verified users and drew intense scrutiny from privacy advocates and regulators in several countries over the collection of biometric data. The project rebranded its network around World, and WLD is used within its ecosystem, making it one of crypto's most ambitious and controversial identity experiments.
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