{"id":9878,"date":"2025-01-27T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2025-01-27T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:17:14","slug":"worldcoin-rival-humanity-protocols-valuation-jumps-to-1-1b-after-fresh-fund-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9878","title":{"rendered":"Worldcoin Rival Humanity Protocol&#8217;s Valuation Jumps to $1.1B After Fresh Fund Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol has closed a $20 million funding round, raising its valuation to $1.1 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round was co-led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto, according to an emailed announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The project last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/05\/15\/humanity-protocol-raises-30m-at-1b-for-decentralized-identification-to-rival-worldcoin\" target=\"_blank\">raised $30 million at a $1 billion valuation<\/a> in May 2024<\/p>\n<p>Humanity plans to use the new capital to accelerate the development of its Proof of Humanity consensus mechanism and integrate it into leading Web3 platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol, which uses palm scans to verify identity, aims to rival OpenAI founder Sam Altman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2023\/07\/24\/i-had-my-iris-scanned-by-the-worldcoin-orb-and-it-wasnt-as-scary-as-i-expected\" target=\"_blank\">Worldcoin project, which is built around scanning users&#8217; irises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2024\/11\/18\/lido-co-founders-said-to-plot-competitor-to-sam-altmans-world-network\" target=\"_blank\">Lido Co-Founders Said to Plot Competitor to Sam Altman&#8217;s World Network<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol has closed a $20 million funding round, raising its valuation to $1.1 billion. The funding round was co-led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto, according to an emailed announcement. The project last raised $30 million at a $1 billion valuation in May 2024 Humanity plans to use the new capital [&hellip;]<\/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-9878","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\/9878","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=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}