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What is WLD?

WLD is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, with bridged versions on World Chain and OP Mainnet. It belongs to World, the project formerly named Worldcoin, which pairs a cryptocurrency with World ID, a proof of personhood: a person looks into an Orb, the device confirms they are a unique human without storing who they are, and they can then prove personhood to apps using zero-knowledge proofs.

The token launched on 24 July 2023. OP Mainnet was the main venue until 17 October 2024, when activity moved to World Chain, the project's own OP Stack rollup, where verified users receive their grants.

WLD supply and tokenomics

The initial cap is 10 billion WLD: 75 percent to the World Community, 13.6 percent to investors in Tools for Humanity, 11.1 percent to the team, and 0.3 percent kept as a company reserve. The token contract has no owner controls and cannot mint anything new for 15 years; from 24 July 2038 governance may switch on inflation of at most 1.5 percent a year, with a default of zero.

Community tokens unlock across 15 years, and the Foundation has stated an aspirational goal of at least 60 percent of all WLD going to users. Team and investor tokens vested over three to five years, concluding by July 2028, so circulating supply grows on a published schedule rather than by discretion.

Who builds WLD

Tools for Humanity, the company co-founded in 2019 by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, built the Orb and World App and launched the network. Stewardship of the protocol and of the community allocation sits with the World Foundation, a Cayman Islands foundation company that owns the World ID, Orb and World Chain intellectual property; token allocation runs through its subsidiary World Assets.

How WLD is governed

There is no on-chain token governance today. The WLD contract is not upgradeable and nobody holds admin keys over it; project decisions rest with the World Foundation, which has stated a mandate to decentralize decision-making over time. The one lever reserved for future governance is the post-2038 inflation switch.

What people use WLD for

WLD started as the claimable reward for proving personhood, and today it moves mostly inside World App and the mini apps built on World Chain.

• Claim recurring grants after verifying at an Orb.
• Pay and transfer inside World App and World Chain mini apps.
• Trade WLD on exchanges and decentralized venues.

WLD risks and considerations

The project's biometric model is its biggest legal exposure. Spain's data protection agency suspended Orb operations for three months in March 2024, and in May 2025 Kenya's High Court ruled the local iris collection unlawful and ordered the data destroyed. Where regulators restrict verification, the pipeline of new verified users narrows.

Supply is another axis: unlocks continue for years on the published schedule, and grants add tokens steadily. And although WLD trades on Ethereum, most user activity happens on World Chain, so the same symbol lives at different addresses on the two networks; check which deployment you are trading.