World – Formly Worldcoin – now officially operates in six American cities, marking its first official deployment of the United States after years to avoid domestic exposure on regulatory risk.
The company announced on April 30 that its orb -based identity verification system was now live in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco, declaring:
Americans can now check their ID of the world From six key innovation centers (Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco), go full Global application live and claim the Worldcoin (WLD) Ardrop. Signature of the world powered by NVIDIA Orbs will be available through the United States via autonomous global spaces and partner locations such as Razer Stores.
Worldcoin, the controversial proyect
The “Orb” is the first token in the world ecosystem, designed by a company called Tools for Humanity. Its function is simple (and somewhat confusing): to prove that you are human through an iris scan.
In other words, the Orb scans the eyes of people to verify their humanity and gives you an “Iris code”, which is a kind of unique digital representation of the texture of the iris. Although it is alarming, the orb software is open source, allowing the community to see how biometric data is processed.
Despite the open source code, and beyond alliances and brand change, several countries have already prohibited or suspended the program due to concerns about confidentiality and the abusive use of data.
In June of last year, the project had to stop the services in Spain and Portugal due to surveys concerning data protection. A few months earlier, Hong Kong also investigated WorldCoin and reported that the project had violated the order on the confidentiality of personal data (PDPO) several times.
Outlook of WLD token
World claims more than 26 million users worldwide, with 12 million verified via orb scans.
But the adoption did not help. Although the token seems to have been on an upward trend in recent weeks, its peak was USD 11.74 in March 2024, which represents a drop of more than 90%, according to CoinmarketCap data.
