Tag: Worldcoin
First Mover Americas: Worldcoin, The Graph and Filecoin Finish the Week on Top
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Feb. 23, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualize [...]
Nvidia Earnings Send AI Tokens Higher, Worldcoin Reaches ATH
Taking the lead in terms of gains is Worldcoin’s WLD, which is up 40% on the day and almost 170% over the past 7 days. The token touched a new all-tim [...]
Rocketing Worldcoin Prices Could Help Three Arrows, FTX Creditors
WLD’s rise has apparently come after AI developer OpenAI’s launch of a text-to-video generator, Sora, last week. Worldcoin’s parent company and OpenAI [...]
Starknet, LayerZero, and More Fuel Crypto Rally with Token Releases
Loyal readers of The Protocol will recall our riff in last week's issue, headlined "Bitcoin Censorship, or Just 'Spam Filtering?'" The gist of the sto [...]
Sam Altman’s Retina-Scanning Orb to Become More Useful with World ID 2.0
On Reddit, for example, the moderators of a subreddit can use World ID to "give people that have been verified as humans specific roles or special per [...]
Worldcoin Foundation Announces $5 Million Community Grants Program Called ‘Wave0’
Remco Bloemen, the head of protocol at the Worldcoin Foundation, told CoinDesk in an interview that the grants are not just aimed at developers, but t [...]
Not Even Sam Altman ‘Is Exempt From Surveillance’
My focus for my piece was to convey a narrative about surveillance, a theme that resonates with the times we live in. I chose a direct visual language [...]
Does Worldcoin Need a Reevaluation? Understanding Sam Altman’s Crypto-AI-UBI Experiment
Does Worldcoin Need a Reevaluation? Understanding Sam Altman’s Crypto-AI-UBI Experiment
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Sam Altman’s OpenAI ouster sees rollercoaster Worldcoin price
Worldcoin (WLD), the token of Sam Altman’s retina-scanning project of the same name, saw major volatility over the past few days as he was ousted from [...]
OpenAI Ousts Sam Altman From CEO and Board Roles; Worldcoin Drops 12%
Artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI ousted Sam Altman as CEO and from the board, the board of directors announced in a blog post Friday.
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Worldcoin claims 4 million app downloads and 1 million active users
Iris-scanning project Worldcoin has reached a new milestone, as its mobile World App has now been downloaded over 4 million times, according to a Nove [...]
BlockFi emerges from bankruptcy, Worldcoin halts USDC payments and more
Crypto lender BlockFi announced its emergence from insolvency this week, just a few days after FTX announced that it successfully reclaimed approximat [...]
OpenAI Founder’s Crypto Project Worldcoin Switches Orb Rewards Plan to Boost WLD Supply
“The WLD token was launched with a relatively low circulating supply of just above 100M WLD,” Worldcoin said in a Sunday post. “This was due to the go [...]
Worldcoin to cease paying Orb operators in USDC as early as November
Worldcoin is set to begin paying its Orb Operators — those rewarded for scanning people's eyes — with its native Worldcoin (WLD) token, phasing out US [...]
The Tech Guru Behind Worldcoin: a Q&A With Tiago Sada
The head of product for Tools for Humanity grew up in Mexico, became an expert in robotics and won a scholarship to study in the U.S. Now he's oversee [...]