Worldcoin Drops 10% Even As Sam Altman Doubles Down On Human ID Tech
Worldcoin’s growing list of corporate partners got longer on Friday — and so did the questions surrounding it. Big Names, Bigger Ambitions Zoom and DocuSign are the latest companies to adopt World’s identity verification system, joining a growing roster of mainstream platforms built around the iris-scanning technology backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Dating app…
WLD Slides To New Lows As World Foundation Offloads $65M
A massive token unlock scheduled for late July could make things worse. Thailand authorities raided an iris-scanning site tied to Sam Altman’s World project last October. That was trouble enough. Now the foundation behind the biometric identity platform is selling its own token at a fraction of what investors paid less than a year ago…
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Raises $135 Million—WLD Token Jumps 15%
Worldcoin’s parent entity, the nonprofit World Foundation, has injected fresh momentum into its biometric-identity project after selling $135 million worth of liquid WLD tokens at spot price to two of its earliest backers, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bain Capital Crypto. The direct purchase—explicitly “not a venture round… a direct purchase of non-discounted liquid tokens,” according…