Worldcoin soars as World ID expands to a few extra international locations

• Worldcoin worth rose 23% to hit $2.14 and outperform all prime 100 cash by market cap by 24-hour beneficial properties.
• The bounce in WLD worth got here as Worldcoin expanded its World ID to Guatemala, Malaysia and Poland.
• WLD has spiked since bouncing from lows of $1.35 on Sept. 6.

Worldcoin (WLD) worth traded as the biggest gainer amongst cryptocurrencies within the prime 100 by market cap on Wednesday as its worth soared greater than 23% in 24 hours.

The token’s worth hit an intraday excessive of $2.14, it’s highest degree since August 1, 2024. Newest upside follows the rebound from lows of $1.35 reached on September 6.

The beneficial properties noticed the WLD token outpace Sei (SEI), Popcat (POPCAT) and Starknet (STRK) within the prime 100 by market cap. SEI and POPCAT tokens have been double digits greater on the time of writing, posting 18.8% and 12.5% respectively.

In the meantime, STRK was up 8.5%. For Starknet, beneficial properties got here because the zero-knowledge layer 2 community introduced part one in all its staking was now dwell.

Worldcoin expands World ID verification

On Sept. 25, the Worldcoin staff introduced that it had achieved three new World ID verification launches in Guatemala, Malaysia and Poland.

1 week, 3 World ID verification launches 🇬🇹🇲🇾🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/CwwNPNUPzh

— Worldcoin (@worldcoin) September 25, 2024

The enlargement provides to the rising variety of international locations the place the World ID, the venture’s AI associated digital passport, can be found. Worldcoin’s entry into these international locations comes on the again of the corporate’s enlargement in Europe in July.

On Sept. 19, the venture introduced its take a look at launch of Face Auth, a brand new characteristic that permits for proof of humanness on-line.

In line with Worldcoin, Face Auth presents a “non-public 1:1 face comparability.” With this characteristic, solely people who confirm their World IDs utilizing a Worldcoin orb can use it.

Earlier this month, interoperability platform Wormhole built-in World ID on Solana, permitting builders on the layer-1 blockchain to authenticate customers’ World IDs initially verified on Ethereum.