Worldcoin News

Sam Altman’s eye-scanning world ID project saw its token price go on a wild ride over the weekend after he was fired by OpenAI.

The board of directors removed Altman on the grounds that he was allegedly “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.”

The CME booms as the crypto industry anticipates the approval approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States.

The ‘World App’ for iOS and Android has now been downloaded 4 million times, according to data collected by its development team, Tools for Humanity.

Aside from ditching USDC for its native token, Worldcoin announced some changes to the terms of its WLD loans to market makers.

The committee’s recommendations included having the Kenyan government consider implementing a comprehensive framework for digital assets and virtual asset service providers.

The data revealed an increase in the trading volume of AI tokens in August, reaching approximately $870 million, up from $570 million at the close of July.

The iris-scanning project saw a surge of sign-ups in Argentina, registering an average of one user every nine seconds.

Worldcoin could make it easier to create digital identities for people worldwide. And even if it fails, more projects like it are coming.

The individual, whose Worldcoin employment could not be independently verified, claimed they witnessed “sloppy and/or illegal things” while working there prior to the token launch.

The controversial crypto project’s launch has been marred into controversy, and it’s already facing investigations in nearly half a dozen countries.

Worldcoin project has remained controversial right from its announcement and is currently facing regulatory trouble in multiple jurisdictions where it has launched.

The Agency for Access to Public Information in Argentina was the latest government body to investigate Worldcoin, with reports suggesting probes in Germany, France and Kenya.

In the latest Cointelegraph Report, we analyzed the privacy and ethical concerns around Worldcoin, currently among the most controversial cryptocurrency projects, and assessed its potential to disrupt the AI era.

The head of product at Tools for Humanity told Cointelegraph that Worldcoin is expecting more companies to integrate in the second half of the year.