Over the past few years, which sounds like an episode Black mirror He developed in real life: millions of people around the world agreed to let a metallic ball scan their eyes in exchange for receiving a blockchain based identifier and cryptocurrencies called Worldcoin.
Starting from this week, Worldcoin (WLD) will be available in most US for the first time, including via exchanges such as Coinbase. Those who scan their eyes to a global ball will receive 16 WLD. Meanwhile, people who downloaded and have already registered in the World application in the USA will receive “Pioneer Grant” in the amount of 150 WLD, fell into their wallet.
Altman himself was a co -founder of the startup behind the project, Tools for Humanity, also cooperates with Visa to issue a debit card this year, which transforms WLD into Fiat Calurets at the cash register. Altman, who is currently the chairman of the tools of humanity, announced on Wednesday messages together with the general director Alex Blania at a press event in San Francisco, named “finally”.
Over 7,000 global balls will be available to IRIS scans in the physical locations of “World Space” in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco, as well as in Razer stores. The tools for humanity updated the physical design of the ball last year, and on Wednesday they irritated in a smaller “mini orb mini”, which resembles a smartphone.
Since it was founded by Altman, Blania and Max Novendtern in 2019, the startup mission was to make the world the main method of verifying people online. The alleged goal is to solve the social consequences of Openi, another Altman company. Because AI becomes more advanced, the point is that the system like ID will be necessary to distinguish between what is generated and what is not. In the vision of the future of Altman Worldcoin, it can also serve as a form of universal basic income for people whose tasks have been replaced by artificial intelligence.
In addition to the upcoming Visa debit card, the main way to apply Worldcoin is the World Portfel APP, which allows users to send WLD and other cryptocurrencies to each other via a private chat service associated with global identifiers. The global mobile application also offers over 150 mini-outplications, including modern Kalshi forecasting market. World also introduces the integration of ID with Stripe, Match Group, the mother company Tinder and the Razer game platform.
While the previous chairman of SEC, Gary Gensler, took up a demanding, disputed approach to cryptography, Trump’s administration significantly withdrew the control of space. This political change has given humanity tools confidence to currently introduce Worldcoin in the USA, although the token is still not available in the state of Recent York.
Despite the forceful recoil from other governments Due to the apply of biometric data, Worldcoin has still become one of the largest cryptocurrency projects in the world. The startup says that so far his balls have been verified by 12 million people from over 100 countries in the world network in Ethereum. Meanwhile, the price of WLD was wild. Before Wednesday’s event, he traded below his debut price 2023.