Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded "proof of personhood" crypto project that scans people's eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the "coin"

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, said on Thursday it was rebranding to World Network and was ramping up efforts to scan every human's iris using its "orb" devices.

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need some new business cards printed up because it’s dropping the “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is shifting from cryptocurrency to focus more on its identification technology and it just unveiled a new version of its signature gadget.

Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is human “in the age of AI.

Worldcoin, the identity-proving cryptocurrency project co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, today announced a rebrand and a new version of its Iris-scanning Orb. Starting today, Worldcoin is now known as World because,

Worldcoin, the digital identity project supported by Sam Altman, is rebranding to World Network, now simply known as “World.” This transition comes with the official launch of World Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain on the Ethereum network.