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World Foundation raises $52.5 million in locked token sale
The World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a locked WLD token sale to fund enterprise, consumer, and AI-agent integrations of its iris-based proof-of-personhood system.
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Key Facts
- The sale raised $52.5 million with a 12-month token lockup.
- Investors included Pantera Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, and Susquehanna Crypto.
- World ID verifies uniqueness through iris scanning with Orb devices.
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Proof of personhood is becoming a distinct requirement from identity verification, since the question is whether an account belongs to a unique human rather than to a named one. Iris is chosen for its uniqueness properties at population scale, which is also what makes the enrolment model contentious with regulators.