Two C-suite executives left the company.

Listed as a perpetual futures contract on Kraken Futures for EEA traders on February 9, 2026.

Integrated Chainlink standard on World Chain during the week ending February 8, 2026.

Supports @10xtradingapp, an agent-powered mobile perpetual trading app with up to 40x leverage launched through Virtuals' 60 Days program.

Approved a governance proposal (84% vote) to allocate 50% of Superchain revenue (approximately $8.8M annually based on $17.6M in last 12 months) for monthly OP token buybacks starting February 2026.

Experienced a security incident on January 28, 2026 at 19:00 UTC affecting the Perp DEX on World Chain and BNB Chain, caused by a compromised team member device via malicious IDE extension leading to unauthorized Vault Proxy upgrade.

OpenAI is considering using World's iris-scanning Orb technology for biometric user verification on its planned social network to ensure users are real people and not bots.

Operates multiple privacy-preserving compute nodes as of 2025.

Published product and technical specifications for the next version of the World ID protocol.

Received investment in Merge from Worldcoin, with Worldcoin co-leading the financing round alongside OpenAI.

Consumed 17.27% of Ethereum data availability (DA) blobs over the past 7 days ending January 7, 2026.

Added support for swapping USDC to Tether Gold (XAUT) within the Worldcoin app.

Underwent extensive security audit work by Nethermind Security in 2025.

World Chain active addresses increased by 25% over the one-year period ending in 2025.

Reached all-time high stablecoin supply of $53,375,692.40 on World Chain, representing a 95% increase over 30 days and 329% increase over 1 year.

Runs a $100,000 WLD airdrop program called "Festive Reward Holiday" featuring game weeks and DeFi tasks through the Worldcoin App.

Reached a market capitalization of $1.3 billion, ranking #81 on CoinGecko.

Compared to Worldcoin's approach of solving identity without governments through a private technical system and economic incentives, which has received criticism from both cypherpunk and government perspectives for centralized infrastructure, biometric data collection, and creating a parallel identity system outside institutional frameworks.

WLD experiences $250M in whale inflows with smart money accumulation.

Binance discontinues WLD/FDUSD margin trading pairs (both cross and isolated) on December 23, 2025, at 09:00 UTC.

Polymarket integration with World App provides 2% cashback on trades for verified users only.

Large linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million daily scheduled for the next seven days for WLD token.

Decentralized gift-giving feature launches live on World App with free gifts for users.

Morpho gains 900,000 users by building on World App's mini app platform.

World App's Chat platform integrates Privy wallets to enable mini apps running inside chat, combining messaging, payments, and wallets in one flow.

World ID integrates with XMTP open messaging protocol to add proof-of-personhood verification to end-to-end encrypted messages across interoperable messaging apps.

Integrates EURC, enabling 20M+ verified users to access euro-denominated payments, trading, and lending.

Most used self-custodial wallet surpassing MetaMask and Phantom with 2 billion mini app opens in one year. Tinder partnership pilots proof of human badge in Japan for age and personhood verification.

The new World App launches with secure chat, global payments, and Mini Apps features.

EURC, the world's largest euro stablecoin, launches on World Chain with World ID integration for verified euro payments, DeFi services, and digital euro savings accounts. World Chain now supports EURC natively across 6 blockchains.

EURC partners with World Chain.

OverHerd XYZ uses World Chain as one of three supported blockchains to pay over 500,000 users for their content through Biconomy Nexus infrastructure with gasless transactions.

FWB collaborates with Mini Apps on the platform.

FWB collaborates with World Chain on Mini Apps functionality. (ID: 1998446169911939191)

Team hosts live event on December 11 at 2:30pm PST in San Francisco to present the new World App.

World Chain surpasses 504 million transactions since launch and pays $2 million in rent to L1, excluding user operations.

x402 support launches, enabling users and agents to make automated pay-per-call payments in any token without checkout flows.

wARS, an Argentine peso-pegged stablecoin, launches on world_chain_ alongside Ethereum and Base, enabling local value transfers for Argentina and Latin America.

World Chat launches as a new secure and private messaging feature exclusively available in World App.

Daily linear token unlocks for WLD exceed $1 million from February 9-15, 2026.

Privy showcases Worldcoin at Stripe venue alongside their largest crypto customers and partners including Hyperliquid, OpenSea, Farcaster, and Uniswap Foundation during a weekend event.

Worldcoin and FWB hosted a developer build program in Buenos Aires from November 10-15, 2025, with 16 teams creating projects for demo day.

World App has approximately 5 million daily active users, providing distribution for crypto teams building mini apps with World ID integration. (ID: 1993721940398493752)

World receives order to delete 1.2 million iris scans in Thailand.

Poseidon, a $15M a16z-backed AI data project, launched their audio collection app on Worldcoin's app store to verify human contributors, collecting 34k hours of audio data from 405k contributors worldwide in 2 weeks.

Worldcoin payment integration with daimopay and Mercadopago demonstrated at EFDevcon, allowing users to pay with USDC via QR code scanning.

Daily token unlocks over $1 million scheduled for WLD in the next 7 days per Coingecko unlock data.

A lending protocol on World Chain reaches almost 600,000 unique borrowers over recent months.

WDC perpetual futures now live on Vest platform.

WorldChain ranks 4th among top 5 chains by 3-month net inflows according to recent analysis.

Worldbuild hackathon concludes with 13 mini-app teams presenting at Demo Day with strong community turnout.

Permanent capital vehicle acquires 10% of circulating supply with plans to buy more WLD tokens.

World App enables payments at all Mercado Pago accepting merchants in Argentina through integration powered by Daimo Pay.

Worldcoin representatives speak at Ethereum Day stage and participate in L2 Panel with Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Starknet, zkSync, and Linea discussing Ethereum rollup ecosystem scaling.

Daily linear token unlocks above $1M per day are scheduled for WLD over the next seven days, according to Tokenomist data tracking $297M in total token unlocks across multiple projects.

Worldcoin team places 3rd out of 32 teams at Uniswap event.

World App reaches 37M+ users as World Build program prepares for Demo Day in Buenos Aires with expanded partner support including theBBFund, Coinfund, Crecimiento AR, Ohara AI, and Uniswap Foundation.

World App reaches 37M+ users according to World Build program announcement for Buenos Aires Demo Day.

Uniswap v4 integrates with World to enable bot leakage prevention, retail-friendly launches, and tailored fees for verified humans, according to Uniswap Foundation's Head of Growth Chirag Narang. World Build program expands partner support to include Alchemy, Bain Capital Crypto, Dragonfly, Hashed VC, Privy, Variant Fund, and Volt Capital alongside previously announced partners.

World Build 2 sprint in Buenos Aires brings 25 builders from 9 countries through seven-day program with World App roadmap preview and Demo Day judged by major crypto investors including Blockchain Capital, Circle, Protocol Labs, FWB, Social Graph VC, and Nascent.

World Build 2 residential sprint in Buenos Aires hosts 25 builders from 9 countries for a 7-day program, culminating in a Demo Day with judges from Blockchain Capital, FWB, Circle, Protocol Labs, Social Graph VC, and Nascent.

World Orbs are present in government buildings in Asia with organized call center campaigns promoting app downloads and promising daily earnings to users.

World Chain added to Hyperlane's Circle CCTP V2 integration for efficient USDC liquidity rebalancing across multiple chains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, and others.

Partners with DSRV Labs and Shard Lab to host K-Builders Meetup on November 20 at World Flagship Space in Seoul, Korea.

ORBS Chairman discusses enterprise adoption of the global authentication layer at Cantor Crypto & AI/Energy Infrastructure event.

Worldcoin ranks 10th in development activity among Ethereum-based projects and moves up in ranking position since last month according to Santiment's GitHub activity analysis.

Worldcoin ranks 5th in 3-month netflow with $242M, trailing Arbitrum ($1.0B), Ethereum ($504M), Starknet ($441M), and EdgeX ($367M).

WLD experiences major linear token unlocks over $1 million per day in the next seven days, part of $476 million total unlock value across multiple tokens according to Tokenomist.

Eightco, a WLD DAT (digital asset token), trades at 5x NAV ratio (5x market cap to treasury ratio).

Partnership with EigenCloud powers verifiable 'Humans vs AI' gameplay feature with 70k weekly active users.

World Build program launches as collaboration with FWB to build mini apps for 37M+ World App users, backed by Dragonfly, Circle, Bain Capital Crypto, Alchemy, and 11 other major crypto firms.

World Chain operates at a loss over the past month, contrasting with profitable L2 networks like Base ($9.9M profit) and Arbitrum ($4.1M profit).

Build 2 event happens in Buenos Aires next week, mentoring developers building consumer applications on the World platform.

Monthly active addresses reach all-time high of 1 million, up +170% since the start of the year.

The number of unique content creators discussing Worldcoin on social media increases, placing it among a minority of cryptocurrencies seeing creator growth while most of the market experiences decreases.

Hyperlane expands its zero-slippage USDC bridging service to include World Chain among 15+ supported blockchain networks.

World Wallet launches a new Mini App integrating Polymarket prediction market functionality.

Polymarket integrates with Worldcoin, enabling users to access prediction markets with smooth on-ramp experience through World balance.

$WLD drops 9.59% in 24 hours, ranking 6th among top 10 tokens with $1B+ market cap by price decline.

Legend platform enables on/off-boarding via ethereum addresses on World Chain alongside Optimism, Unichain, Polygon, Base, and Arbitrum.

World integrates its decentralized World ID with Chainlink's Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) as an identity provider partner at ACE's launch, enabling proof-of-human protocol composition with other compliance partners. Worldcoin ranks 3rd in development activity among privacy coin projects with upward ranking momentum.

Mythical Games partners with the World project in a gaming collaboration.

WLD faces large linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next seven days according to Tokenomist data.

Argentinian exchange Ripio launches $wARS, a stablecoin backed by the Argentine peso, now live on World Chain alongside Ethereum and Base.

Cross-chain liquidity platform Universal adds world_chain_ to its supported chains, which also include Base, Solana, Katana and Unichain, with the platform reporting close to $2B in total volume across all supported chains.

World App user base grows to 37 million users as of late October 2025.

Morpho Mini App on the World App enables DeFi lending for over 2 million users globally.

WLD token listed on Gemini exchange with deposits and withdrawals enabled. World App integrates multiple new assets via Universal without requiring DEX liquidity.

Web3 gaming company Mythical Games expands to World Chain by launching its own Layer 3 solution for large-scale gaming applications with native EVM access and dedicated high-performance infrastructure.

'Proof of human' IDs expand to FIFA games, NFL games, and Pudgy Penguins games.

A crypto trader includes $WLD in a short basket recommendation alongside 15 other tokens, with position sizing based on volatility and conviction levels.

World faces regulatory crackdowns in Thailand and Colombia, with Thai authorities inspecting iris-scanning operations in Bangkok and making arrests for unlicensed crypto exchange activities.

World Build program launches as joint partnership with FWB to develop Mini Apps for 37M+ total users, backed by 15+ major crypto entities including Alchemy, Bain Capital Crypto, Circle, Dragonfly, Hashed, Nascent, Privy, Uniswap Foundation, and Variant.

WDC up almost 20% in a day.

Worldcoin partners with DCG House, Bitso, Aviva Financiera, Reap Global, and Nascent VC at Mexico Tech Week event focused on Stablecoins and AI conversations.

Earnings report scheduled for tomorrow.

UNO wallet mini app on World platform achieves more daily active users than other major crypto wallets like Phantom.

yx3io builds PufLaunch on Worldcoin platform.

Worldcoin reaches 17M+ verified users according to a16z's 2025 crypto predictions report highlighting proof-of-human verification in AI x crypto convergence.

World App features Credit mini-app by Divine Research offering unsecured micro-loans starting under $10 scaling to $1000 credit limits with World ID preventing sybil attacks, and Bills mini-app enabling utility payments in Mexico.