{"id":28269,"date":"2025-05-23T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28269"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:01:48","slug":"wld-soars-31-as-sam-altmans-world-network-lands-135m-in-fresh-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28269","title":{"rendered":"WLD Soars 31% as Sam Altman\u2019s World Network Lands $135M in Fresh Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worldcoin (WLD), the biometric identity token backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, surged by more than 31%, from a daily low of $1.24 to a high of $1.63 after the World Network announced a $135 million investment by top-tier VC firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bain Capital Crypto.<\/p>\n

It marks a pivotal moment for the project, which is looking to scale its U.S. operations amid growing demand for AI-proof human verification.<\/p>\n

Funding to Fuel Expansion<\/h2>\n

The capital injection, disclosed in a blog post<\/a> on May 21, was structured as a private token sale and will support World Network\u2019s aggressive U.S. rollout. This includes deploying 7,500 iris-scanning Orbs across the country to reach as many as 180 million Americans by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis funding opportunity is in service to the long-term mission of World and is backed by the builders who believed in World from the beginning,\u201d the team stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Last month, the project launched<\/a> in six cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco. Users in these locations can now receive WLD tokens in exchange for biometric verification via Orb.<\/p>\n

The cryptocurrency grants access to several features, including token-backed loans, prediction markets, and a soon-to-be-launched Visa card for real-world spending. According to the project team, its global user base has climbed to more than 26 million, and it has already issued 12.5 million Orb-verified IDs.<\/p>\n

Despite the momentum, World continues to face scrutiny. Privacy concerns have led to legal clashes in Germany and Brazil, while Singaporean lawmakers have raised red flags<\/a> over biometric data handling and account misuse. However, the company insists scans are anonymized and deleted after verification.<\/p>\n

The project has had mixed success recently, navigating operational suspensions in Kenya and Hong Kong<\/a>, while entering a partnership with Match Group for age verification on Tinder in Japan, which observers say points to a strategic pivot toward practical use cases.<\/p>\n

Market Dynamics<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, a recent Tokenomist report revealed that more than 37 million WLD tokens with a market value north of $35 million were unlocked<\/a> between May 5 and May 12.<\/p>\n

The expected sell pressure from the unlocks seems not to have affected short-term price stability as much as anticipated, with WLD trading at around $1.54 at the time of writing. The current price marks a sharp 164% rebound from its all-time low recorded in early April.<\/p>\n

Additionally, over the past week alone, the asset has jumped 31.4%, outperforming both the broader crypto market, which rose 6.5% in that period, and its smart contract platform peers, which are up just 6.8%.<\/p>\n

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Worldcoin (WLD), the biometric identity token backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, surged by more than 31%, from a daily low of $1.24 to a high of $1.63 after the World Network announced a $135 million investment by top-tier VC firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bain Capital Crypto. It marks a pivotal moment for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}