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Finance

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Surges 15% as Investor and Team Lockup Extended

WLD is up by more than 26% over the past 24-hours.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Sam Altman’s Layer-2 Blockchain Project, World Chain, Opens to Developers

This means that select developers can apply to build, test, and give feedback to Tools For Humanity, the developer firm behind Worldcoin, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Finance

Worldcoin Hires Former Google, X and Apple Execs to Beef Up Privacy, Security

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a contributor to the Worldcoin project, hired four executives to advance its mission to ensure a more just economic system, the company said on Tuesday.

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

Policy

Rarimo's Worldcoin Alternative RariMe Goes Live

The app allows users to generate passport zero-knowledge proofs (ZKs) to verify the uniqueness of individuals without revealing their identity

(Nghia Do Thanh/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase's Former Head of Communications Joins Worldcoin

Elliott Suthers has joined biometric data and crypto firm Worldcoin.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Worldcoin Operations Violate Privacy and Should Cease, Hong Kong Regulator Says

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data personnel visited 10 of the project's locations in December and January.

On Jan. 31, the PCPD entered six premises involved in the Worldcoin project with court warrants for investigations. (PCPD)

Videos

World Chain Is a Blockchain 'Designed for Humans': Tools for Humanity Exec

Tools for Humanity head of product, engineering, and design Tiago Sada answers five rapid-fire questions from CoinDesk, including insights on World Chain, the future of digital identity and what excites him about crypto.

Recent Videos

Videos

Why Worldcoin Is Launching a Layer 2

Tiago Sada, head of product, engineering and design at Tools for Humanity, which is developing Worldcoin joins "First Mover" to discuss the significance of digital identity and how Worldcoin plans on preserving privacy in a decentralized environment. Plus, the latest announcement on the launch of World Chain, a layer-2 network on Ethereum that offers users cheaper fees and faster speeds.

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Tech

Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain

The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Worldcoin’s WLD Drops as Elon Musk Sues OpenAI

WLD is considered a proxy bet on OpenAI, the Sam Altman-owned artificial intelligence company.

(Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons)

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