Worldcoin (WLD) is a global project aiming to build the world's largest identity and financial network as a public utility. It centres around World ID, a privacy-preserving global identity network that allows users to verify their humanness online while protecting their privacy with zero-knowledge proofs. Users download the World App and visit an Orb, a physical imaging device, to verify your World ID. Orb-verified holders are entitled to recurring grants of free WLD tokens, which the project suggests has the potential to make it the most widely distributed crypto asset.
WLD is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, and the project emphasises giving ownership to everyone through its unique identity-based approach.