Worldcoin dropped 13.4% to about $0.28 on Friday after World — the identity-focused company led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced several new integrations for its “proof of human” stack, which relies on iris-scanning to verify identities.
Zoom will incorporate World’s Deep Face authentication to guard against deepfakes, DocuSign is adding World’s ID verification for digital agreements, and Tinder is expanding World ID verification to U.S. users, World said. The company said such infrastructure is becoming critical as AI agents increasingly act on behalf of real people.
With AI-generated content on the rise, deepfake technology has enabled more sophisticated impersonation scams that can bypass standard ID checks and trick victims into handing over money or sensitive information. Biometric verification is promoted as one fix, but critics warn that mass data collection concentrates privacy risks and could enable pervasive surveillance if abused.
Worldcoin’s token WLD plunged double digits to roughly $0.28 even as the broader crypto market gained about 2.2% on news of eased U.S.–Iran tensions and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. WLD is the native token of the World Network, used to reward users for verifying unique identities and to enable transactions and participation within the ecosystem.
World’s ID system centers on its Orb device, which scans a user’s iris to create a unique digital identity that verifies humanness without exposing personal data. The company also rolled out an account-based system with features such as key recovery and multi-device support to make verification more secure and portable.
Other recent World integrations include Amazon Web Services, Shopify, Browserbase, Exa, VanEck and Coinbase. In March, Coinbase said it would use World’s AgentKit — a developer toolkit that lets AI agents prove they are tied to a verified human — for its x402 AI agents micropayments protocol.
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