Introducing World Chain, a new blockchain designed for humans ⚪️ World Chain will be open to everyone. Verified humans, including more than 5 million verified World ID holders, will get priority blockspace over bots & a gas allowance for casual transactions.

1/ A brief look inside the Orb ⚪️👀🧵 2/ The Orb is a custom biometric imaging device developed by @tfh_technology for the Worldcoin project. It uses iris biometrics to verify a person's humanness & uniqueness in a way that's secure & privacy-preserving.

What a week! From 🌍📱 to ( 🪩_🔴 ), the Worldcoin protocol and its partners have covered a lot of ground in a few short days.

Let's recap! ⬇️ On Monday, we announced the launch of World App, the first Worldcoin wallet built by @tfh_technology.

https://twitter.com/alexblania/status/1655628253162512384

World ID & World App are coming to the @optimismFND Mainnet 🪩 🔴

worldcoin.org/blog/announcem… Collaboration between Worldcoin & Optimism began nearly a year ago through joint contributions to EIP-4844, which will reduce L2 fees by 10x.

Today, we're announcing our commitment to support the Optimism Collective in bringing the Superchain vision to life.

1/ Introducing World App. Built by @tfh_technology, its simple yet powerful tools are designed to be accessible to everyone. Use it to prove personhood w/ World ID, claim Worldcoin where available & send digital money anywhere for free.
worldcoin.org/blog/announcem… 2/ Since its debut, more than 1.6 million people have joined the World App pre-release, 500,000+ of whom use it every month.

World App processes 60K transactions and 25K World ID checks daily.

Our path and progress towards decentralization 🧵

Worldcoin’s mission is ambitious, and decentralization has always been a key part of its success. Building the largest global financial and identity network can't happen without a motivated and diverse community.

1/ The creation of the nonprofit Worldcoin Foundation is a significant step towards decentralization, and this process will keep moving forward in a natural and progressive way.

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After 3 years of R&D and extensive real-world usage (onboarding +1M unique humans), we're excited to finally open up the hardware powering the Orb!

Along with the engineering files, we're also sharing an in-depth explanation on how the Orb works.

worldcoin.org/blog/worldcoin… Worldcoin started as a way to explore the concept of how widely-distributed digital currency could impact the world.

Along the way, we discovered sybil-resistance was the biggest issue in our way, with no existing solution being private, inclusive and scalable.

🤫 Some alpha on the Worldcoin Protocol

Today we're unveiling a little more about our privacy-preserving Proof of Personhood protocol.

Here's how we scale transactions, all the nerdy details on how our proofs work, and what's coming next 👇 To recap:

- Worldcoin started with the goal of airdropping a token to every single person.

- Along the way, we realized there was no privacy-first way of ensuring tokens would only be claimed once by each person.

So we're building one and opening it up for anyone to use ✨