Overview
- The company says about 17.5 million people have been scanned, roughly 2% of its stated billion-person goal.
- To accelerate growth, World is pursuing verification deals, including a Tinder pilot in Japan and partnerships with Stripe, Visa and Razer, with Reddit reported to have held talks.
- Adoption is constrained by the need to visit a physical Orb to enroll, raising questions about how quickly the service can scale.
- Regulators in several countries have scrutinized deployments and privacy risks, though experts like Matthew Greene have praised the system’s data-protection architecture.
- Formerly called Worldcoin, the project has expanded to 21 countries and raised more than $240 million, and it issues WLD tokens to new users.