Sam Altman World Collection USD $ 135 million by sale of tokens wld

By Hannah Pérez

World by Sam Altman sold tokens Wld to his two main sponsors: Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto. It will use capital to continue its expansion to the United States.

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• The World Project Collecting USD $ 135 million in a financing round.
• Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto bought Tokens Wld as part of the round.
• World will use fresh capital to strengthen its expansion plan to the US.

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Worldthe cryptocurrency project focused on the verification of identity of Sam Altman, is raising capital to reinforce its expansion plan to the United States and the rest of the world.

In a statement on Wednesday, World Assetssubsidiary of World Foundation –that is behind the project– The sale of native tokens WLDs reported for a sum of USD $ 135 million to risk capital giants, Andreessen Horowitz and Crypto Capital Bain.

The collection was part of a financing round in which investors also participated such as Selini Capital, Mirana Ventures and Digital Arctic. Andreessen Horowitzbetter known as A16Z, It is an American risk capital company based in California known for its investments in early stage cryptocurrencies.

Fresh capital will be used to reinforce the presence of World Network In the United States and other countries, as well as expanding the infrastructure for World ID to help demonstrate the humanity of a person online, according to the statement.

More than 12 million registered users

Previously known as WorldcoinThe project proposes a humanity verification model that gives people tokens WLD for free to register, a process by which users must undergo a scan of the ocular globe. Sam Altman, who is famous for directing OpenAI –The company behind chatgpt–support the project.

World Network It has been used by more than 26 million users worldwide and 12.5 million people have registered in the identity system of World by iris scan on the machine Orb of the company that collects biometric data.

“AI is evolving quickly. The tools to distinguish humans from machines must be climbed at a similar pace to help prepare humanity for the AGI era“, Says Wednesday’s publication.

This financing opportunity is at the service of the long -term mission of the World and is backed by the builders who believed in the World from the beginning.

World expands to the USA and the world

The project initially announced the expansion to the United States a few weeks ago, with the opening of records of records of World In cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco, in addition to stores Razer.

People in the United States that scan their iris in one of the centers can receive a reward of 16 tokens WLD for creating their World ID, which “Try your humanity“In digital spaces.

That announcement occurred shortly after the reports that advanced that World He was in conversations with the credit card giant Visa To integrate card functions into the chain through a self -ustodia wallet. Days before, World He had revealed World Chata functionality within the app that allows users to send messages and make crypto transactions.

The Token Wld has risen 4.6% in the last 24 hours to USD $ 1.15 at the time of writing these lines. The gain is in line with a broader rebound in the cryptocurrency market that sees Bitcoin conquer new record heights.

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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