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 consumed 17.27% of Ethereum DA blobs in the past 7 days ending Jan 7, 2026.
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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.
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 ID integrates with XMTP open messaging protocol to add proof-of-personhood verification to end-to-end encrypted messages across interoperable messaging apps.
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.
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)
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.
World Chat launches as a new secure and private messaging feature exclusively available in World App.
Linear daily token unlocks for WLD exceed $1 million per day for the next seven days according to Tokenomist data.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
WLD faces major linear daily token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next 7 days according to Tokenomist.
World App integrates Polymarket prediction market platform directly into the application.
Thailand investigates the digital identity project according to Asia's weekly crypto news report covering Oct 20-26.
$WLD does not pump despite AI agent sector rally driven by a16z report forecasting $30 trillion AI agent economy by 2030, with only AI-agent tokens rallying while AI infrastructure projects including WLD remain flat.
Worldcoin integrates with EigenAI and EigenCompute for 'Humans vs AI' verifiable gameplay feature serving 70k weekly users.
Platform reaches 17M+ verified humans for proof-of-personhood per a16z State of Crypto report.
Worldcoin builds on Safe protocol infrastructure, joining Polymarket, Ledger, and Bitpanda in adopting the smart account platform.
World Chain active addresses hit all-time high of 120k with a 58% day-over-day increase.
Market maker GSR deposits 682k WLD (~$636k) to Binance within a 12-hour period.
Partnership with Edge City Patagonia enables crypto payments at 25+ merchants with up to 20% discount and provides access to World mini apps ecosystem including eSim, coordination tools, and workout games.
Polymarket integrates with World App through a new mini app launch, featuring a 10% deposit bonus promotion up to 5 WLD (~$5) for eligible new deposits with $5 minimum through partnership with World Foundation.
Worldcoin participates in Mexico Tech Week DCG House event on stablecoin infrastructure and regulation with LATAM fintech partners Bitso and RipioApp.
The platform reaches 17M+ verified humans through its proof of personhood system.
boost_xyz powers an Edge City Patagonia activation offering $50 WLD rewards for $50 deposits into World Wallet for use at local crypto-accepting merchants through lift_wld.
Daily linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million are scheduled for WLD over the next 7 days according to Tokenomist data.
Over 60M people onboarded to crypto through the platform.
Over 2.3M USDC holders on World Chain use Safe smart accounts for self-custody stablecoin management.
USDC-WLD liquidity pool on Velodrome Slipstream yields ~154% APY on OP Mainnet.
Holdstation launches a 10,000 $WLD airdrop through its mini-app ecosystem within the Worldcoin app, with additional bonus WLD available in the Holdstation App.