what's worldcoin?
Worldcoin is a blockchain-based project focused on creating a global digital identity system to distinguish humans from AI bots online, using biometric iris scanning via proprietary Orb devices to issue World ID credentials. Launched in 2023 and rebranded to World in 2024, it aims to enable proof-of-personhood for applications like secure authentication, fair resource distribution, and human-centric financial networks. The native WLD token powers the ecosystem, facilitating grants, transactions, and incentives for verified users through the World App wallet. Key features include World Chain, a custom Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain optimized for scalability and low fees, supporting integrations like USDC for seamless cross-chain access via Circle's Gateway. The project has partnerships for identity verification with governments and tech firms, and recent growth shows World Chain's monthly active addresses nearing 1 million, though upcoming token unlocks pose selling pressure risks.
Worldcoin has daily unlocks >$1M for 7 days, also on Grayscale's Q2 consideration list.
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Has daily linear unlocks exceeding $1 million as part of over $221 million in total unlock value across multiple tokens over the next 7 days starting April 13, 2026.
Included in Grayscale's Q2 2026 Assets Under Consideration list alongside 27 other tokens and projects.
Generated $162 in fee revenue paid to Ethereum on April 6, 2026.
Listed on N1 exchange with trading available on 01 and Terminal platforms offering up to 5x leverage.
Launched Community Appreciation Program with 10,000 WLD rewards, distributed first-come-first-served in Holdstation Wallet until 2026-04-21, and integrated as reward into Eggs Vault.
Undergoes daily linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million as part of scheduled emissions over the next 7 days from 2026-04-06, with total combined unlock value across multiple projects exceeding $190 million.
Project team conducted off-exchange cash-out transactions.
Captcha app launched a mini-app on World platform.
One buyer deposited 49M WLD tokens to Binance on the same day as receiving them from World Foundation's OTC distribution.
Reduces daily token unlock rate by 43% starting 2026-07-24, after 49% of tokens have entered circulation, with community releases slowing by 50% and investor/team unlocks decreasing by 32%.
World Foundation sold 239M WLD OTC for 65M USDC ($0.27/token) March 20-28, 2026, at a 95% discount from 2024 private placement, with $25M locked for 6 months, depositing 35.8M USDC to Circle. Hit new all-time low March 28-29, 2026, declining 97% from 2024 peak and falling 23% over the last month.
A multisig linked to the World Foundation sold 85.45M WLD for $25M through FalconX at an average price of $0.293.
A multisig linked to the World Foundation deposited 81.26M WLD worth $22M to Binance over the past week.
Aggregated open interest increased 83% from 280M to 510M WLD, representing a 230M WLD increase worth approximately $62M.
A $4M+ long position was progressively liquidated on Hyperliquid since March 26th, 2026.
Blob usage on World Chain decreased, returning to pre-Pectra levels.
Experienced large holders (Smart Money funds) accumulated WLD tokens during a price dip while retail investors were selling.
DACM established a new position of 1.4 million WLD tokens withdrawn from Binance during the week ending March 26, 2026, having held zero tokens one week prior.
Kenetic Capital accumulated 143,800 WLD tokens across two wallets during the week ending March 26, 2026.
CoinFund accumulated 67,200 WLD tokens during the week ending March 26, 2026.
Hashed accumulated 38,400 WLD tokens during the week ending March 26, 2026, bringing its total holdings to 1.7 million tokens.
Deployed an eye-scanning orb at a GAP store checkout in San Francisco for customers to sign up for World ID.
Integrated with Instaclaw in March 2026, offering free agents to verified humans via World App, reaching 17 million users.
Experiences linear token unlocks exceeding $1M daily starting March 30, 2026, for 7 days, part of approximately $230 million in total unlocks across multiple projects.
World Foundation multisig deposited 117M WLD ($38.7M) to Binance and FalconX, withdrew $35M USDC from Binance in OTC transaction on 2026-03-21.
Experienced three $3.4M deposits to exchanges within a 2-hour period on 2026-03-20, plus a $16.2M deposit to OKX.
Integrated World ID with @itmstudio for ticketing functionality.
Established partnerships or pilot programs with Match Group for online dating applications.
Established partnerships or pilot programs with Visa for payment applications.
Established partnerships or pilot programs with Stripe for payment applications.
Established partnerships or pilot programs with Razer for gaming applications.
Launched AgentKit, an ID toolkit for AI agents, integrating World ID, Coinbase x402 protocol, and ERC-8004 standard, March 17, 2026. Also participated in a hackathon with Coinbase and XMTP, concluding March 24, 2026, where developers built agents using World ID, x402, and XMTP messaging; Charms feature live in World App, enabling users to turn tokens into AI agents.
New grants per day (new users) have remained flat since October 10, 2025.
Has large linear token unlocks scheduled with daily unlocks exceeding $1 million over the 7-day period from March 16 to March 23, 2026.
WLD DAT stopped buying WLD tokens but maintains existing positions according to a statement from Lee.
Launched World Build Labs jointly with FWB, offering up to $200,000 in grants for founders building hyperscale applications, with applications open until April 23, 2026.
Migrated from OP Mainnet to its own chain; scheduled 'Lift Off' event for 2026-04-18 with Sam Altman and Alex Blania.
Offers up to $200K in grant funding to builders via World Build 3 hackathons with FWB.
Has large linear unlocks with daily unlock value exceeding $1 million scheduled between March 9 and March 16, 2026.
A wallet potentially belonging to the WLD team deposited 6.3M WLD (~$2.58M) into Binance on March 6, 2026, and has deposited a total of 16.52M WLD (~$15.29M) into Binance over the past 7 months.
Integrated Worldcoin ID with TBD, a Solana-based prediction market protocol that raised $3M seed funding, for ID-gated voting.
Available as a lending vault on Morpho protocol deployed on World Chain with 15.29% APR and $2,320,000 TVL for verified users.
Sponsored EthCC 2026 in Cannes (March 30-April 2, 2026), presenting Orb hardware and World ID's MPC/ZKP on April 2. Sponsored three tracks totaling $20,000 in prizes at ETHGlobal Cannes 2026 hackathon.
Ranked 6th in development activity among Ethereum-based ecosystem projects in March 2026, with improved positioning since the previous month.
Scheduled linear daily unlocks exceeding $1 million over the next 7 days (from 2026-02-23 to 2026-03-02).
Collaborates with Protocol Labs teams @merge to develop human verification and sovereignty solutions as AI systems scale.
Proposed to activate protocol fees on Worldchain along with 7 other chains in Uniswap v3 pools.
Entered into a 5-year token swap with Safe Foundation as part of Safe's new Ecosystem Alignment Program, deepening alignment around self-custody infrastructure.
Received investment from EightCo (associated with $BMNR/Beast Industries)
Processed 6.1 billion transactions in 2025, representing 29x growth from 208 million transactions two years prior.
Serves 38M+ users across 160 countries via an identity-linked chain for proof-of-personhood on the OP Stack.
A wallet potentially associated with Justin Bram deposited 14.18M WLD (approximately $5.78M) into Binance on 2026-02-16, with 4.82M WLD (approximately $1.94M) remaining in the wallet.
Completed World ID 4.0 trusted setup ceremony using p0tion with 104-113 participants across five circuits, with ZK files ready for production. World ID trusted setup contribution period ends 2026-02-20.
Integrated ZK validity proofs into the OP Stack with Succinct Labs as the first preferred proving partner to enable faster withdrawals from optimistic rollups by replacing the 7-day challenge window with cryptographic proofs.
Ranked among top gainers on February 12, 2026, due to OpenAI social network news.
Sponsors the Chainlink Convergence hackathon in 2026 alongside Tenderly and thirdweb.
Featured in a Multicoin Capital presentation on internet capital and labor markets as an example of proof of personhood through orb operators scanning retinas for tokens.
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's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on World Chain, enabling cross-chain functionality during the week ending February 8, 2026.
Partnered with Virtuals Protocol for agentic commerce on World Chain, adopting ERC-8183, a standard co-developed with Ethereum Foundation, for onchain escrow, attestations, and trustless settlement for AI agents, supporting 10xtradingapp's 40x leverage mobile perpetual trading.
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 considers using iris-scanning Orb technology for biometric user verification on its social network, creating a humans-only platform with World ID.
Operates multiple privacy-preserving compute nodes as of 2025.
Released World ID 4.0, including product and technical specifications.
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.
Has daily linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million, part of $321 million total unlock value over the next 7 days (February 16-23, 2026).
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.
Integrates World ID with XMTP messaging protocol to add proof-of-personhood verification to end-to-end encrypted messages across interoperable messaging apps, enabling direct messaging between Lens Protocol and Worldcoin users.
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 World Chain on Mini Apps functionality. (ID: 1998446169911939191)
FWB collaborates with Mini Apps on the platform.
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)