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Key takeout
- The world plans to expand its digital identity platform to the US, with 7,500 orbs to roll out by the end of the year.
- The partnership with Razer and Tinder integrates the world ID verification of games and dating platforms.
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World, previously known as the Digital Identity project co-founded by Openai CEO Sam Altman and WorldCoin CEO Alex Blania, launches services and products in the United States. The team announced it at their latest “Last” event.
This move is part of the world’s efforts to build a global network of humanity in an age increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence.
As part of the plan, the company will roll out 7,500 new orbs by the end of the year, quadrupleting its current global expansion. The deployment will begin in six cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco.
The world has also opened a new US production line in Texas, assembled orbs for both domestic and global markets. The goal is to make human verification as accessible as possible, ultimately reaching billions.
World has announced the Orb Mini, a portable, early stage version of its flagship verification device that will begin shipping in 2026.
ORB Minis could allow individuals to carry verification tools in their pockets, allowing a model of gig economic style that helps validated users to be verified, similar to Uber driver riding riders.
Early partnerships in gaming, dating and social networking
The global US debut parallels two major commercial partnerships aimed at incorporating the project’s decentralized identity protocol, World ID, into real-world applications. The company said the early partnerships focused on major industries such as gaming, dating and social networking.
The gaming giant Razer and the dating app Powerhouse Tinder are the first to employ world IDs to validate human users and combat the presence of AI bots.
Razer integrates global identity across the ecosystem, and Orbs will soon be available in Razer Retail Stores. The company also teased the upcoming tournament series, called League of Humans, designed as a verified, human-only gaming event.
Additionally, World is investigating integration with Razer Camera Hardware to bring extended human authentication to the gaming environment.
In the dating space, Tinder’s parent company, Match Group, will pilot global ID integration in Japan later this year, targeting age and identity verification. The partnership is expected to expand to other match-owned platforms and additional markets.
World App Transformation: New Partners, Forecast Markets, and Visa Cards Unfold
World has announced a series of upgrades to the flagship world app, including integrations with Circe, Stripe and Kalshi.
Through our new partnership with Circle, World App users will be able to access USDC immediately, allowing Stablecoin-based transactions within the app. Individual collaborations with Stripe will enhance payment capabilities with future updates and streamline Fiat On-Ramps and Off-Ramps.
Users will also be able to access the Kalshi Prediction Marketplace and participate in event-driven markets directly from the app.
The company also revealed plans to launch global visa cards, starting with merchant integration and expanding to users at a later stage.
What’s next for WorldCoin?
According to the World Team, WorldCoin, the network’s native token best known for its role as an onboarding incentive, is expected to become the economic backbone of global protocols.
WorldCoin serves as a fee token for the World Ecosystem. Applications that want to use World IDs will pay with WorldCoin on World Chain, the project’s custom blockchain.
“World ID fees are used to successfully use Worldcoin with Worldcoin to make applications successful, and those who provide the underlying technology will also succeed because those fees support the technology.”
Whether a user or developer is paid or whether the value is burned, redistributed or reassigned, ultimately depends on the community.
“The protocol implements those rules and knows that everyone involved knows they will be consistently in the future, and the community decides how it will look over time,” Ludwig added.
“They can make decisions about how they accumulate fees in the protocol itself to provide sustainability. Will their value come back to the users or will they be burned? Those are the types of questions that the community can establish in the future,” he pointed out.
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