By Jove, what a rumpus! Worldcoin (WLD), that plucky little number, has leapt like a startled gazelle, bounding a whopping 16% after a Forbes report let slip that OpenAI is dabbling in a social network to tackle the bot menace with “proof of personhood.”
According to the gossip, this brainwave is still in its nappies, with a team so small it could fit into a telephone box. Rumour has it OpenAI is toying with biometric wizardry, including Apple’s Face ID and World’s iris-scanning contraption. Rather spiffing, what?
WLD, the little scamp, shot up to $0.53 faster than Jeeves can mix a martini, marking one of its most spirited jaunts in recent memory. Trading volume, too, went through the roof, as investors got wind of the potential nod to World’s identity tomfoolery.
World Network, formerly known as Worldcoin (before it decided to go incognito), is all about proving you’re a genuine, one-off human bean without waving about your passport or driving license. Jolly clever, if you ask me.
Their gizmo, the Orb, scans your peepers and conjures up a cryptographic proof called World ID. No raw biometric snapshots, mind you-just privacy-preserving identifiers to keep the doppelgängers at bay.
The whole shebang is about proof of personhood, old chap. Unlike KYC, which wants to know your life story, this simply confirms you’re not a tin of baked beans with a Twitter account. Rather essential in this age of AI-generated blighters flooding the interwebs.
Proof of personhood is a mechanism that establishes an individual’s humanness & uniqueness. It can be thought of as the first & most fundamental building block in establishing digital identity.
– World (@worldcoin) October 9, 2023
Over the past year, World Network has been spreading its wings, though it’s had a spot of bother with the old regulatory chaps over biometric data collection. Still, it’s sparked a jolly good debate about digital identity and privacy, what?
This OpenAI tittle-tattle comes just as the big platforms are in a flap about bots. X, for instance, has been tweaking its API and algorithm rules to show the door to those InfoFi crypto johnnies who pay you to post drivel. Apparently, it’s turned the place into a spam factory.
We are revising our developer API policies:
We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi”). This has led to a tremendous amount of AI slop & reply spam on the platform.
We have revoked API access from these apps, so your X experience should…
– Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 15, 2026
All this hullabaloo points to a broader shift, old sport. Platforms are moving from playing whack-a-mole with moderation to beefing up identity and participation controls. Proof of personhood is one of the few ideas that doesn’t require you to spill your life’s secrets.
While OpenAI hasn’t said boo about a product or timeline, the market’s reaction shows crypto investors are as twitchy as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Any hint that big tech is taking decentralized identity seriously sends them into a tizzy.
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2026-01-29 01:46