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Worldcoin, the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has announced major expansions to its eye-scanning identity platform, including integrations with major tech companies and a new multi-layer verification system for the World ID “digital passport.”
Tiago Sada, product lead at Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, said in an interview that World ID 2.0 marks a "huge upgrade" for the protocol, combining "the ideas originally proposed in the white paper" with "what we started as developers." feedback heard there”.
Sada said Worldcoin will begin offering live launches of its witness services in Singapore and Mexico. He also mentioned a number of companies, including Shopify, Mercado Libre, Minecraft, Reddit and Telegram, that will allow users to log in using World ID.
New partners will benefit from the 2.0 upgrade, as it will make it "easier to distinguish between bots and verified humans online," Tools for Humanity said in an email.
Speaking of Worldcoin, we have to mention that sphere - that retinal scanning sphere used to exchange World ID passports. It's a basketball-sized chrome sphere that scans eyeballs to authenticate first-time users. It does this to ensure that all World ID holders are verifiably unique, which could be useful for online services to tell bots from real humans in an era of increasingly weird artificial intelligence.
The eerily intimate nature of Worldcoin’s chosen authentication method raises concerns about user privacy: For some in the privacy-focused, anti-corporate blockchain industry, handing biometric data over to a shiny Silicon Valley startup The idea of a metallic sphere inevitably conjures up images of dystopia.
However, Tools for Humanity stated that Worldcoin does not save the eye scan data and only uses them the first time a user authenticates. Tools for Humanity also promotes the World ID service as a more privacy-preserving alternative to traditional authentication systems. World ID holders can "verify to an app or service that they are human without disclosing their identity," Tools for Humanity said in its statement.
On Reddit, for example, moderators of subforums can use World ID to "give specific roles or special permissions to people who have been verified as human," Sada said.Or on Shopify, merchants issuing discount codes can use World ID to "make sure you only get the discount once," he adds.
With World ID 2.0, "new verification levels" have been added to accommodate users who choose to provide different amounts of verification data. In addition to the standard sphere-based World ID, there is a new basic level of World ID that forgoes retinal scanning and allows users to verify their identity on their own device. This lower verification layer can help extend ID to people who don't have access to Sphere verification sites, and can be used to log in in apps that require fewer physical identification requirements.
At the other end of the validation spectrum will be another new - and more rigorous - variety, called Orb Plus. This option can be used by application makers if they want Sphere-authenticated users to re-authenticate themselves every time they log in with a World ID.
Tools for Humanity says that since Sam Altman launched the sphere in 2021, "nearly five million people" have scanned their eyeballs in exchange for a World ID. Sada said this figure "includes more than 1% of the population of Chile, 1% of the population of Argentina and more than 2% of the population of Portugal". Worldcoin’s main product today is a crypto wallet application that anyone can use, which provides special access to verified ID holders.
Sada said Altman remains actively involved in major product and strategic decisions at Worldcoin, and claimed he learned of OpenAI’s unexpected firings and rehires of AI luminaries through the news.
Worldcoin, the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has announced major expansions to its eye-scanning identity platform, including integrations with major tech companies and a new multi-layer verification system for the World ID “digital passport.”
Tiago Sada, product lead at Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, said in an interview that World ID 2.0 marks a "huge upgrade" for the protocol, combining "the ideas originally proposed in the white paper" with "what we started as developers." feedback heard there”.
Sada said Worldcoin will begin offering live launches of its witness services in Singapore and Mexico. He also mentioned a number of companies, including Shopify, Mercado Libre, Minecraft, Reddit and Telegram, that will allow users to log in using World ID.
New partners will benefit from the 2.0 upgrade, as it will make it "easier to distinguish between bots and verified humans online," Tools for Humanity said in an email.
Speaking of Worldcoin, we have to mention that sphere - that retinal scanning sphere used to exchange World ID passports. It's a basketball-sized chrome sphere that scans eyeballs to authenticate first-time users. It does this to ensure that all World ID holders are verifiably unique, which could be useful for online services to tell bots from real humans in an era of increasingly weird artificial intelligence.
The eerily intimate nature of Worldcoin’s chosen authentication method raises concerns about user privacy: For some in the privacy-focused, anti-corporate blockchain industry, handing biometric data over to a shiny Silicon Valley startup The idea of a metallic sphere inevitably conjures up images of dystopia.
However, Tools for Humanity stated that Worldcoin does not save the eye scan data and only uses them the first time a user authenticates. Tools for Humanity also promotes the World ID service as a more privacy-preserving alternative to traditional authentication systems. World ID holders can "verify to an app or service that they are human without disclosing their identity," Tools for Humanity said in its statement.
On Reddit, for example, moderators of subforums can use World ID to "give specific roles or special permissions to people who have been verified as human," Sada said.Or on Shopify, merchants issuing discount codes can use World ID to "make sure you only get the discount once," he adds.
With World ID 2.0, "new verification levels" have been added to accommodate users who choose to provide different amounts of verification data. In addition to the standard sphere-based World ID, there is a new basic level of World ID that forgoes retinal scanning and allows users to verify their identity on their own device. This lower verification layer can help extend ID to people who don't have access to Sphere verification sites, and can be used to log in in apps that require fewer physical identification requirements.
At the other end of the validation spectrum will be another new - and more rigorous - variety, called Orb Plus. This option can be used by application makers if they want Sphere-authenticated users to re-authenticate themselves every time they log in with a World ID.
Tools for Humanity says that since Sam Altman launched the sphere in 2021, "nearly five million people" have scanned their eyeballs in exchange for a World ID. Sada said this figure "includes more than 1% of the population of Chile, 1% of the population of Argentina and more than 2% of the population of Portugal". Worldcoin’s main product today is a crypto wallet application that anyone can use, which provides special access to verified ID holders.
Sada said Altman remains actively involved in major product and strategic decisions at Worldcoin, and claimed he learned of OpenAI’s unexpected firings and rehires of AI luminaries through the news.