Worldcoin's World ID 2.0 Expands with Major Tech Firm Integrations

The upgrade introduces new verification levels and aims to distinguish between bots and verified humans online, amidst privacy concerns over its retina-scanning orb.

Worldcoin, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, announced a major expansion to its eye-scanning identity platform, World ID 2.0, with integrations with major tech firms including Shopify, Mercado Libre, Minecraft, Reddit and Telegram.
The 2.0 upgrade aims to make it easier to distinguish between bots and verified humans online, offering on-site onboarding into its proof-of-personhood service in Singapore and Mexico.
World ID 2.0 introduces new verification levels to accommodate users who opt to give different amounts of verification data, including a base-level World ID that forgoes retina scans and allows users to authenticate themselves on their own devices.
Worldcoin's retina-scanning orb, used to authenticate first-time users, has sparked concerns about user privacy, but the company insists it doesn't save eye scans and only uses them for first-time authentication.
Nearly five million people have scanned their eyes in exchange for World IDs since Sam Altman unveiled the orb in 2021, including more than 1% of the population of Chile, Argentina, and more than 2% of the population of Portugal.