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- World extends its digital identity platform in the United States, planning to deploy 7,500 orbs by the end of the year.
- Partnerships with Razer and Tinder will integrate the global verification of identifiers for games of games and meetings.
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World, formerly known as Worldcoin, the digital identity project co-founded by the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman and the CEO of Worldcoin, Alex Blania, launched its services and products in the United States, the team announced during their last “AT Last” event.
This decision is one of the efforts of the world to build a global network of proof of humanity in an increasingly dominated era dominated by artificial intelligence. Blania said the American launch had been caused by a more encouraging political climate and, above all, a more promising perspective for clear regulations.
“Many things have influenced the decision. The political environment is certainly part of it, and the kind of prospects for regulatory clarity in the United States was a large part,” said Blania in a statement, noting that the team has always adopted a conservative approach to engage with regulators, preferring to move slowly and carefully.
As part of the plan, the company will deploy 7,500 new orbs by the end of the year, quadruple its current global deployment. The deployment begins in six cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco.
World also opens a new American manufacturing line in Texas to assemble orb for national and global markets. The objective is to make human verification as accessible as possible and, ultimately, to reach billions.
World also unveiled Orb Mini, a portable version and at an early stage of its flagship verification device, which will start to ship in 2026.
ORB Minis will allow individuals to transport verification tools in their pockets, potentially allowing a concert economy style model where verified users help others be checked, similar to Uber pilots on board runners.
Early partnerships in games, meetings and social networks
The beginnings in the United States in the world present themselves to two major commercial partnerships aimed at integrating World ID, the decentralized identity protocol of the project, in real applications. The company said its first partnerships focused on key industries, including games, meetings and social networks.
The giant of the Razer game and application of Powerhouse Tinder meetings are among the first to adopt global identification to verify human users and fight against the growing presence of AI robots.
According to the world team. The company has also teased a next series of tournaments, nicknamed League of Humans, conceived as an online game event exclusive to verified humans.
In addition, World explores integrations with the Razer camera equipment to provide improved human authentication in game environments.
In the meeting space, Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, will begin to pilot the global integration of identification in Japan later this year, targeting age and verification of identity. The partnership should extend to other platforms belonging to matches, as well as in additional markets.
Relooking of global applications: new partners, prediction markets and deployment of the Visa card
World has announced a series of upgrades to its flagship global application, including integrations with Circle, Stripe and Kalshi, alongside a next Visa card initiative.
Thanks to a new partnership with Circle, users of global applications will soon be able to access the USDC, allowing stablecoin -based transactions within the application. A separate collaboration with Stripe will improve payment capacity in future updates, rationalizing Fiat on and out of ramps.
Users will also have access to the Kalshi prediction market, allowing them to participate in events focused on events directly from the application.
The company also revealed plans to launch a world visa card, starting with the integrations of merchants and developing users at a later stage.
What is the next step for Worldcoin?
Worldcoin, the native token of the network better known for its role of incitement to integration, should become the economic spine of the world protocol, according to the world team.
Worldcoin will operate as the Fresh token for the Global Ecosystem. Applications wishing to use the global identifier will pay costs in Worldcoin on the personalized project of the project, World Chain.
“Global identification costs use WorldCoin on World Chain to succeed in applications. And then those who provide underlying technology also succeed because these costs support technology,” said Adrian Ludwig, chief architect for Tools for Humanity, during the event.
The quantity of users or developers is paid, or if the value is burned, redistributed or reassigned, will ultimately be up to the community.
“The protocol applies these rules so that all those involved know that they will be in this way regularly and in the future. And the community decides, collectively over time, what it will look like,” added Ludwig
“They can make decisions about how the costs accumulate in the protocol itself to provide sustainability. Will this value come back to the user … or will it be burned? These are the types of questions that the community can establish in the future,” he noted.
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