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Worldcoin
A biometric identity network trying to prove humanness in an AI era.
Token
WLD
Sector
Proof of personhood
Category
Infrastructure
Organizations
0
Coverage
9/11
Live market data
WLD market
CoinGecko data; may be delayed.
Tokenomics
Circulating vs diluted2.66x
Tokens remain locked or unissued: today's price discounts a larger future supply.
- Circulating supply
- 3.77B
- Total supply
- 10.00B
- Max supply
- 10.00B
37.7% of the achievable supply is already circulating.
All-time high (ATH)
$11.74 -96.36% · Mar 9, 2024
Source: CoinGecko, snapshot of Oct 28, 2026. Figures may be delayed.
On-chain fundamentals
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Why it matters
Worldcoin builds a proof-of-personhood system, using iris biometrics captured by dedicated hardware to issue a credential that distinguishes unique humans from bots, alongside a token distributed to verified users. The problem it targets is real and growing as AI-generated activity spreads, but its biometric collection has drawn regulatory investigations and outright suspensions in several countries.
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How it works
World (formerly Worldcoin) is building a proof-of-personhood network: users verify their unique humanness once by enrolling their iris with the Orb, which stores an iris code rather than the raw image, and receive a World ID they can use to prove they are a unique human — not a bot — to apps, gated services, and web3 protocols facing sybil pressure. The ecosystem includes the World App wallet, the World Chain layer 2 for transaction throughput, and credentials for third-party verification. Sam Altman co-founded the project; Tools for Humanity builds the hardware and infrastructure.
Token utility
Access and incentives within the identity network
Governance over protocol direction
Exposure to the proof-of-personhood thesis
Value capture
WLD is distributed primarily as a grant to biometrically verified humans and pays network fees on World Chain. Demand follows the size and activity of the verified network: more enrolled humans make World ID more valuable to integrating apps, and WLD circulates as the network's money. Critics note the loop is still speculative — utility depends on World ID adoption finding durable use cases beyond its own grants.
Supply and issuance
WLD has a fixed maximum of 10 billion tokens, released gradually over decades: circulating supply comes from user grants and operator incentives, while a large share is held by the World Foundation and early backers under long vesting. Effective dilution is slow but structural — grant recipients receive a small, declining share over time as the release schedule extends.
Governance
Protocol direction is set by the World Foundation and Tools for Humanity; there is no token-holder governance for roadmap decisions. The project's hardest governance problems are not on-chain at all: biometric data handling, jurisdiction bans, and Orb supply-chain integrity are governed by regulators and public opinion, not by votes.
Key risks
Biometric data collection faces active regulatory scrutiny and bans in multiple jurisdictions
Privacy criticism is structural to the model, not incidental
Token distribution schedule creates ongoing supply pressure
Frequently asked questions
Does World store my iris image?
The design stores an iris code — a numeric template from which the image cannot be reconstructed — rather than the photograph, and enrollment data can be deleted on request. The open debate is about the codes themselves: whether numeric templates could ever be re-identified at scale if future techniques improve, which no token mechanism can settle.
Why does a proof-of-personhood network need a token?
Grants to verified humans need a sybil-resistant asset to be meaningful — a giveaway is only fair if each human can claim exactly once — and World Chain fees and operator incentives need a unit of account. The network could technically exist without WLD, but the distribution model that makes World ID trustworthy is hard to run without one.
References
Last verified:
- World - The real human network
Worldcoin · world.org · primary source
The project's official site, retrieved on the date shown, supporting how it describes itself. It does not establish supply, governance or issuance mechanics.
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