Users can get a World ID on any compatible mobile wallet. “What that means is that just like people can have self-custodial wallets, with this, people can have self-custodial IDs, where any information is on-device, and how you use it is through zero-knowledge-proofs to make attestations about yourself.” Rise of the Orbs

“This is a decentralized and privacy-first protocol,” Tiago Sada, Head of Product, Engineering and Design at Tools For Humanity, told The Block in an interview. Still, they can also use tools such as phone number verification, albeit with less accuracy. Worldcoin’s Orb - a controversial, iris-scanning bit of hardware - is the main method of getting verified for users. The proliferation of AI and generative software have, according to Worldcoin, rendered the issue of online identity that much thornier.ĭescribed in today’s announcement as the “underlying identity protocol” to Worldcoin and powered by zero-knowledge cryptography, the newly launched World ID is a mobile tool that people can use to prove they’re real without sacrificing anonymity.

Worldcoin, the project intent on scanning people’s eyeballs to prove they are indeed people, unveiled its World ID protocol and software development kit today.īoth Worldcoin and its lead software contributor, Tools For Humanity, were co-created by Sam Altman - who is also CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the smash-hit generative chatbot.

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