Worldcoin will make Argentina its regional operations center

The controversial cryptocurrency project will offer professional opportunities to technology specialists living in the South American country.

They have scanned the irises of more than half a million Argentines in a matter of 10 months

Worldcoin will open 50 locations to scan human irises in more than 10 cities in Argentina.

Buenos Aires will be a center for the development of tools that serve “in the era of AI

Worldcoin, the controversial cryptocurrency project that gives away tokens to those who scan its iris, announced its plans to turn Argentina into the “neural center” of its operations in the Latin American region.

In a press release sent to the CriptoNoticias editorial team, the Woldcoin team notified that they intend to expand their operations in Argentina. They will do this by opening 50 Worldcoin stores in more than 10 cities in the country. They will also open two stores where users “will be able to learn about the technology and explore more about the project.”

In these new 50 locations, Worldcoin will have the so-called Orbs, which is the spherical-metallic-futuristic hardware they use to scan people's irises and proceed with their verification. A process called World ID and which is rewarded with a number of WLD tokens.

Worldcoin, founded in

2019 by Sam Altman (who is behind OpenAI) and Alex Blania, also reported that it will offer professional opportunities to developers, software engineers, analysts and other technology specialists who are in Argentina communicated, the decision to make Argentina its center The nerve center of operations was taken after a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei in San Francisco, California, United States. Martín Mazza, regional manager of Tools for Humanity, indicated that Argentina, having a technological ecosystem and qualified human capital, "is an ideal place for the development of tools aimed at preparing