Worldcoin Defies Critics: Surging Adoption & Unstoppable Momentum in 2025

Love it or hate it, Worldcoin won't be ignored. The controversial crypto project—once dismissed as dystopian—is now flexing institutional muscle while privacy advocates scream into the void.

Adoption on Steroids

Behind the backlash? A 300% surge in verified users since January. Turns out, free money still beats ideological purity for most people.

Regulatory Dodgeball

EU watchdogs keep swinging. Worldcoin keeps ducking—thanks to a shell game of offshore entities that would make a Goldman Sachs partner blush.

The AI-Fueled Endgame

Sam Altman's playbook is clear: dominate digital identity before governments or Big Tech can react. Whether that's visionary or terrifying depends on your portfolio allocation.

As the token flirts with new ATHs, one thing's certain: in crypto, moral outrage has a half-life of about two earnings cycles.

In brief

• Verified users will benefit from priority processing of their transactions on Worldchain.
• Controversies around the project persist.

Transactions of verified users will be prioritized on Worldchain

With his Worldcoin project, Sam Altman aims to position himself at the center of one of the major challenges of the digital era. The rise of bots and artificial intelligences, a field in which Sam Altman is also active with OpenAI, is gradually transforming the digital space into a shared environment between humans and machines. Therefore, Worldcoin aims to allow everyone to prove their humanity through iris scanning. To encourage more and more users to undergo this scan, Worldcoin rewards those who verify their humanity with WLD tokens.

Currently, World ID has 13 million users and its technology has already been used 100 million times by third-party applications.

Tools For Humanity, the company behind the project, wants to MOVE to the next level. To encourage teams to build applications using Worldcoin, a grant of one million dollars in WLD is made available to new projects. Moreover, the PBH system will be used on World Chain to attract even more users. The PBH system, or “Priority Blockspace for Humans,” prioritizes verified users on the World Chain network. This new feature aims to make the network more efficient and fairer so that humans can continue to use it peacefully, regardless of the number of bots and AI agents.

We firmly believe that humans and AI can coexist harmoniously, and this development reflects our commitment to building user-friendly systems that benefit humanity while also making the most of bleeding-edge technology.

Currently in testnet, PHB is now part of Rollup Boost, a module of the OP Stack, which will later allow other LAYER 2s to use it.

Controversies still persistent around the Worldcoin project

Since its launch, the Worldcoin project has raised concerns that complicate its development in many countries. Indeed, even though iris scanning is voluntary, the company collects a large amount of biometric data. Furthermore, by rewarding users with WLD tokens, the company strongly encourages citizens to scan their iris.

Among the countries most opposed to Tools for Humanity, Kenya is the most vehement. The country’s Supreme Court demands that Worldcoin erase all biometric data of its citizens collected by the company. It considers that the permanent storage of this data violates users’ privacy protection.

Brazil has not taken such radical measures, but its National Data Protection Authority has banned giving cryptocurrency rewards in exchange for biometric data. For now, three company centers remain in São Paulo.

In Europe, only Germany has so far taken measures requiring data deletion, while France, Spain, and Portugal have launched investigations into the company’s data collection and storage procedures.

The development of Worldcoin symbolizes one of the major digital challenges. It is indeed difficult to propose a tool that can verify users’ humanity without collecting users’ private data. Therefore, the project’s success will depend on its ability to find a balance that reassures regulators from different countries.

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