Worldcoin, the digital id and token distribution venture co-founded by Sam Altman in 2019, seems to have offloaded 117 million WLD tokens value about $39 million by means of over-the-counter gross sales, in keeping with Lookonchain.
Worldcoin seems to have offered 117M $WLD($38.7M) through OTC.
At the moment, Worldcoin deposited 117M $WLD($38.7M) to #Binance and #FalconX, after which acquired 35M $USDC.https://t.co/k7ewApTkoO pic.twitter.com/8ZR0OIvgTB
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) March 21, 2026
The tokens went to Binance and FalconX, an institutional prime brokerage that handles large-block trades for hedge funds and asset managers. On-chain knowledge exhibits the venture acquired roughly $35 million in USDC in return, which means an efficient sale worth close to $0.3 per token.
WLD was buying and selling at roughly $0.32 at press time, a decline of roughly 97% from its all-time excessive of $11.7 recorded in March 2024, per CoinGecko.
The height got here throughout a interval of robust investor enthusiasm for synthetic intelligence narratives. Altman’s function at OpenAI additionally made WLD a well-liked proxy wager on AI adoption.
The July 2026 cliff unlock
Worldcoin is ready for a serious token unlock in July, when over 52% of the whole WLD provide is projected to enter circulation directly, in keeping with DeFiLlama. That is among the many largest proportional token unlocks anticipated for any main crypto asset.
In the meantime, Instruments for Humanity workforce members, buyers, and early contributors are nonetheless receiving tokens day by day underneath the revised vesting schedule carried out in 2024, underneath which about 80% of their WLD tokens vest over 5 years and the rest over three years, with emissions having been ongoing since July 24, 2024.
Community and id enrollment
Worldcoin, which rebranded its broader ecosystem underneath the title “World” in 2024, has continued increasing its id verification community. The venture’s signature {hardware} gadget, the Orb, performs iris scans to generate cryptographic proofs of personhood with out storing biometric knowledge on-chain.
As of March 2026, over 38 million customers had enrolled within the World ID system, with roughly 18 million of these having accomplished full Orb-based verification.
The venture has struck partnerships with client platforms together with Razer and Tinder, positioning its expertise as a protection in opposition to bots in gaming, relationship, and different on-line environments.
World and Coinbase not too long ago launched AgentKit beta to handle the rising problem of belief within the quickly proliferating agentic web, the place AI brokers more and more deal with duties like bookings, buying, and worth comparisons.
The system goals to enrich payment-based entry controls by including identity-level assurance, offering a privacy-preserving belief layer for the rising agentic net.
