Sam Altman's Worldcoin Introduces App for Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has launched a self-custodial mobile app that allows users to manage their World ID and a range of cryptocurrencies.
The World App, developed by Tools For Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, is built on the Ethereum sidechain Polygon, according to a Monday blog post by the company.
"You can use it to authenticate with World ID to prove you’re a real person, get your Worldcoin tokens and send digital money anywhere," the team said in the announcement.
The team noted that the World App will be available for anyone, anywhere in the world, making it the first product from the elusive identity upstart that is accessible to everyone.
Furthermore, the app comes with local language support and the capacity to be supported by phones over 10 years old.
It has also been engineered to have “gas-free transactions,” meaning that it would cover the gas fees for transactions.
"The native iOS and Android apps are also engineered to maximize inclusivity. At around 18MB they’re 5x smaller than the industry average."
The app’s development relies on a range of crypto firms, projects, and tools, including Uniswap, ENS usernames that can be used to direct transfers, and Ramp and Moonpay for on and off-ramps.
While the app is still in the test phase, it has accrued 1.6 million users and logs 60,000 transactions on a typical day.
“Since its initial debut, 1.5 million people have joined the beta, more than 500,000 of which use it every month,” the company said in the announcement.
“On a typical day, it sees around 60,000 transactions and 25,000 World ID checks from over 100,000 people around the world.”
World ID is an identity protocol that underpins the Worldcoin project, allowing people to prove they’re real in
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