WORLD COIN WITH OUT OF WORLD AMBITIONS.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s crypto-tied digital identity project World, formerly Worldcoin, said on April 30 that it will make its US debut, first coming to the so-called “key innovation hubs” of Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco.

World offers a crypto token, Worldcoin (WLD), to those who verify their humanity with its spherical device called an Orb that scans a user’s face and eyeballs, which can then be used to make a World ID on the company’s platform to verify they are human on connected services including Minecraft, Reddit and Discord

The firm had previously stayed away from the US due to regulatory concerns over offering a token, fears now seemingly allayed with the crypto-friendly Trump administration.

World also announced a tie-up with Visa for a card that allows payments in WLD, and a pilot program testing out World ID with the online dating giant Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, and Plenty of Fish #WLD #WorldCoin $WLD