Sam Altman-Founded Worldcoin Is Changing Its Name To ‘World’ And Launching Its Own Blockchain — WLD Token’s Fortunes Set To Soar?

Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency-based identity verification project Worldcoin (CRYPTO: WLD) will now be known as “World.” Apart from the rebrand, the team also announced the launch of World Chain, an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based Layer-2 network.

What Happened: At an event on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Altman, along with the other executives tied to the project, unveiled several new developments.

The team outlined their plans for “Orb 2.0,” an enhanced version of the biometric imaging device that the project uses to collect people’s iris in exchange for WLD tokens.

The team also announced the introduction of World Chain, a …

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