World Network officially enters the United States! Visa financial card and Tinder verification program launched simultaneously.

The human verification encryption project "World," created by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has officially landed in the U.S. market and announced a series of significant collaborations, including the launch of a Visa-based debit financial card and a partnership with the dating app Tinder for identity verification, further strengthening the distinction between humans and AI, and accelerating the advancement of global applications.

World Launches in the United States: Six Major Cities Start First

World Network, formerly known as Worldcoin, announced yesterday its official entry into the U.S. market, with the first wave of launch cities including Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco. Local users only need to complete identity verification to receive the native encryption token WLD.

Since the current President Trump took office, the United States has clearly shifted to a more open regulatory attitude towards the encryption sector, undoubtedly paving the way for the promotion and establishment of several encryption companies, including his own.

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As an important step towards its vision of creating a global digital identity, World App currently has about 26 million users worldwide, of which 12 million have completed verification.

World Visa Financial Card: Easily pay globally with digital assets

To enhance the utility of the WLD token, World plans to launch the "World Financial Card" in collaboration with Visa later in 2025.

Personal finance Rewards for verified humans.

The World Card will let verified humans spend straight from World App and access rewards. Online, IRL, anywhere @Visa is accepted. pic.twitter.com/hSrzGcxHy2

— World (@worldcoin) May 1, 2025

The card will bind the user's World App wallet, supporting payments in WLD or other digital assets, and can be used for purchases at any merchant that accepts Visa cards worldwide, with merchants receiving fiat currency directly, without needing to understand encryption technology.

This move not only enhances user convenience but also expands the possibilities for using the World App in everyday scenarios.

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Join hands with Tinder to start a new era of real friendship.

In addition, World has also partnered with Tinder's parent company Match Group to launch an identity verification pilot program in Japan. Users can verify the identity of their matches through World, ensuring that their dating partners are real people, thereby enhancing the platform's safety and trust mechanisms.

With the increasing prevalence of AI scams and threats, the demand for maintaining genuine human connections is rapidly rising. We also plan to expand this verification mechanism to more social platforms in the future.

Application scenarios are further expanded: prediction markets and game verification are both online.

World also announced the launch of the "Kalshi Mini App," allowing users to participate directly in events on the US prediction market Kalshi within the World App. At the same time, World collaborates with the gaming brand Razer to integrate identity verification services into Razer's physical stores, helping players identify whether opponents are real humans and further expanding its cross-border application scenarios.

As part of its global expansion plan, World is also working on developing smaller Orb eye scanning devices, striving to break through 1 billion verifiers.

Privacy controversies remain, and the technological vision is highly anticipated.

World Network is a digital identity verification technology developed by Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Altman and CEO Alex Blania. Since its launch in 2023, the project has faced continuous controversy, particularly regarding privacy concerns related to biometric data.

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Even though officials have repeatedly emphasized that the iris scanning equipment is only used for real-time verification and that data is not stored, the project is still under scrutiny and warning from multiple countries around the world, including South Korea, Hong Kong, Kenya, Spain, and Portugal.

With the proliferation of AI-generated content, the technological potential of World in the field of human-machine recognition is also highly anticipated. As the U.S. market officially launches, World is steadily moving towards the grand vision of a global identity network.

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