Sam Altman's Worldcoin rolls out with massive rally

Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s digital ID project to verify users’ identity and tackle the advances and challenges that are likely to arise with higher adoption of artificial intelligence, launched early on Monday. 

The protocol’s mainnet and token launched, fueling a massive rally and yielding nearly 60% gains for traders on centralized crypto exchanges.

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OpenAI chief’s Worldcoin project launches mainnet

Sam Altman, OpenAI chief, rolled out his ambitious digital identity project, Worldcoin early on Monday. The project promises to verify user’s identity by scanning their eyes and generating a database, tackling one of the key challenges of user identification, caused by advances in artificial intelligence.

The token WLD is available for trade on centralized exchanges, Binance, Huobi, Bybit, and Gate.io. WLD price climbed to its all-time high of $3.30, yielding nearly 60% gains (55% at the time of writing) for holders. 

WLD price chart

The firm announced the launch of its project in a tweet:

The project is ramping up verification and it will now be available in 35 cities over the next few months. Worldcoin app is now available in 120 countries.

While the use of biometric technology raised questions on the project initially, 2 million people have been successfully scanned and Worldcoin assures users that it uses artificial intelligence to create unique codes to represent the scans and complies with "very, very local and very specific rules and regulations in each of the markets where there's an Orb.”

The project is ramping up its migration to Ethereum Layer 2 Optimism network to scale its adoption and utility among users. WLD tokens are currently not available to US-based users in response to the regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies by US financial regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).