Worldcoin WLD
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CM Profile: Worldcoin
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about WLD, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.23% and 0.35%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on Ethereum. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- 2 of its chains are not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 5 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold WLD. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 October- Price down 10.7% since 2 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell WLD
Selling $100,000 of WLD into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken WLD/USD | 0.23% | $99,771 | 2026-10-09 |
| Coinbase WLD/USD | 0.35% | $99,652 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps WLD on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Worldcoin is
Worldcoin launched in July 2023, built by Tools for Humanity, a company co-founded by Sam Altman. It addresses a real and increasingly pressing problem: proving that an online account belongs to a distinct human being, at a time when generating convincing fake people has become trivial.
Its answer is biometric. A device called an Orb scans a person's irises and produces a code derived from them, which is checked for uniqueness against everyone previously enrolled. Verified people receive a World ID they can use to prove personhood without revealing who they are, and — in eligible countries — an allocation of WLD tokens.
The objections are substantive and have come from regulators rather than only from critics. Data protection authorities in several countries, including Spain, Portugal, Kenya and Hong Kong, have suspended, banned or investigated its operations over biometric collection and the validity of consent — particularly where enrolment was paired with a payment to people in lower-income regions. The system's privacy guarantees depend on the company implementing them as described, which is a matter of trust rather than verification. United States residents were excluded from the token distribution at launch, and large team and investor allocations unlock over a long schedule.
What Worldcoin can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.23% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
WLD is capped at 10 billion until at least 24 July 2038. After that the protocol's governance may create more, and the token's contract limits that to 1.5% a year.
Source: World white paper: tokenomics · checked 2 October 2026
WLD is a token on Ethereum. People who claim it receive a bridged copy on World Chain, a network built on top of Ethereum, where the project expects most WLD activity to happen.
Sources: World white paper: tokenomics, World: World Chain · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where WLD lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Worldcoin data synced 3m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell WLD.