Worldcoin will cut WLD’s daily unlock rate by about 43% from July 24, halving community emissions and trimming team and investor unlocks to ease selling pressure.
Worldcoin’s team said the aggregate daily unlock will fall from roughly 5.1 million WLD to about 2.9 million WLD as on‑chain contracts automatically adjust the flow of new tokens to the community, team and early investors. The change takes effect July 24, 2026.
So far, 4.9 billion WLD — 49% of the token’s 10 billion max supply — has been unlocked, with roughly 3.3 billion WLD in circulation. Worldcoin emphasizes WLD uses continuous linear unlocking with “no one‑time large unlocks (cliffs),” and says the adjustment follows established on‑chain arrangements rather than a discretionary change by the foundation.
The reduction affects stakeholder buckets differently. Community (World community) unlocks, covering tokens distributed to users and operators, drop 50% from 3.2 million WLD per day to 1.6 million. Team and investor unlocks fall about 32%, from 1.9 million to 1.3 million per day. In aggregate, daily unlocks go from ~5.1 million to ~2.9 million WLD, a move the project frames as intended “to gradually reduce selling pressure” as more supply becomes liquid.
Worldcoin calls this a tokenomics milestone, arguing a predictable, linearly slowing unlock schedule is preferable to perpetual high emissions or lumpy cliff events that can shock markets. For traders and holders, the immediate effect is mixed: a 43% cut lowers the daily amount of new WLD that could reach secondary markets, but nearly half the supply is already unlocked and about 3.3 billion WLD circulates today, so slower future emissions must be weighed against the existing unlocked base.
Market outcomes will depend on demand growth for WLD — from governance, staking, ecosystem incentives or speculation. If adoption of the Worldcoin protocol and World ID accelerates, the new schedule could help absorb selling and support price; if adoption stalls, slower unlocks alone may not prevent further dilution for existing holders.