OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's crypto project Worldcoin has officially launched its long-awaited WLD token as it migrated to the OP Mainnet, a Layer-2 scaling solution. The token has already been listed on several leading crypto exchanges, including Binance, OKX, Huobi, Bybit, and Gate.io. WLD tokens will initially be distributed to more than two million people worldwide who previously signed up for the project and were verified. - The WLD token will have a ten-billion total supply, with 80% reserved for users, operators, and the ecosystem and 20% for the Worldcoin team and its backers.
- The project aims to help people prove their identity online with credentials verified in person through iris-scanning devices dubbed the "Orb."
- The Orbs are built by Tools for Humanity as a custom biometric imaging device to securely and privately verify users' humanness and uniqueness.
- Worldcoin plans to ramp up sign-ups by deploying the Orbs in over 35 cities across 20 countries worldwide.
- The firm also said the number of Orbs in circulation would increase from 200 to around 1,500 by the end of the year.
- Two million people who have already been verified through an Orb will initially receive 25 WLD tokens.
Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman is most famous for his CEO position in OpenAI, the AI research lab behind the popular AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. |
