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Co -founders of WorldCoin Sam Altman and Alex Blany.
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Openai CEO Sam AltmanThe “scanning enterprise” officially debuted on Thursday.
Altman co-established the “World” in 2019-known as Worldcoin before last year-to make a global identity check system for people using a rainbow scan and blockchain for perfect fraud and bot.
Here’s how it works: you fit a ball, a spherical biometric device, and it spends about 30 seconds, scanning the face and a rainbow, and then creates and preserves the unique “Iriscode” for you to make sure you have and that you have never signed up before. Then you get some project cryptocurrencies, WLD, free, and you can use your world ID as an input with integrated platforms that currently include Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Discord.
Starting Thursday, the company opens six flagship retailers in the US, where people can subscribe to scan their eyeballs: Austin, Atlanta, Los -Andgeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco.
At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa to present a “world visa” this summer, only accessible to people who were scanned by their iris, and Internet acquaintance A group of matches will start a pilot program testing the World ID and some age to check your age Pipe in Japan.
James Speediachi from San Francisco scans in the global ball at the “Finally” event, held by the World Network in San Francisco on April 30, 2025.
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In the world of the event “Finally” in Fort Myson, the singer and rapper Anderson participated. The journal-enabled live demonstration following the main co-founder of World Network Alex Blany and Altman. The demonstration, which began slightly slowly,, from some intervention from the stage lights, showed the audience how to connect the balls on their phones. At one point, the man who made the demonstration had to take off his glasses so that his ball could see his face a little more clearly.
“We wanted to make sure that people remained special and central, in the world where there was a lot of content on the Internet,” Altman said during the main program.
Answering questions from journalists who flew from all over the world to the event, Blana called modern problems with AI Bots and Deepfake Technologies “” Wake up for human evidence. “
Although Altman, who is the CEO of Openai, spoke at the event on Wednesday, a company spokesman said the integration of Openai is not working at the moment.
Blana told reporters that he was open to the idea of a partnership, adding that “we would share the news if we have.”
The mission of the world has questioned some governments and Hong Kong regulators He asked the project to stop the work of all data fees last year.
One of the disputes associated with the world is related to the storage of data.
The project stores some personal data for the purposes of fraud to make sure that people do not double or deceive the system. But investors in the project, as well as members of her team say that the data is decentralized and impossible for a reverse engineer-in difference from typical anonymous data that can be identified and identified by someone.
On April 30, Anna Martins, an investor from Brazil, scans his eyeballs at the San Francisco World event to report six retailers to scan eye apples.
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Adrian Ludwig, Chief Director of Information Security on Humanity’s instruments, the main contribution to the World, in an interview that the project breaks the stored data among several parties, such as “a couple of different financial institutions” and some blockchain institutes.
“The way I always thought about it, we were very surprised when Panama’s papers invaded, and they were traced,” Ludwig said. “We are concerned about this situation, and so we have no place that has all the sensitive data. We have shared it in different different companies and organizations that hold it, and we use cryptography to keep it separate. You will need to compromise all them at the same time.”
On April 30, 2025, ORB at the World Network event “Finally” in San Francisco.
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Since its foundation, Tools for humanity . Base and co -founder billionaire LinkedIn Hoffman’s raidGiving the company an estimate of $ 1 billion as of 2021, the last year for which the assessment is available.
According to the world representative, there are 26 million people in the network across Europe, South America and the Asia Pacific, which, according to the world representative, has completed 12 million, which added that its goal is up to a billion people. But it moves slower than expected: In 2021The purpose of the project was to scale up to a billion people by 2023.
. Cnbc Riya bhattatacharjee reported report from San Francisco
