Company
World Foundation
1 interview on Crypto Coin Show
World Foundation is the independent nonprofit steward of the World protocol.
It is an exempted limited guarantee foundation company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, with its address in George Town, Grand Cayman. It oversees core protocol assets, governance, ecosystem grants and network operations. It aims to move the protocol toward open, decentralized governance with more community participation. The World project was conceived by Sam Altman, Max Novendstern and Alex Blania.
The foundation's technology is World ID, a proof of human credential created through a one-time verification at an Orb and stored on the user's phone. In July 2026 the foundation said more than 39 million people had joined World Network, including more than 18 million Orb-verified users. It also said World ID was being integrated with Zoom, Docusign, Okta, Vercel and Tinder.
25:08Interview · Jun 2, 2026DC Builder on World Foundation's proof of humanity for AI commerceThe internet is filling up with bots, and nobody has built a reliable way to tell the difference between a human and an AI agent at scale. PROOF OF HUMANITY is what World is building — and its full-stack upgrade just became the identity layer…Watch the episode →People we’ve interviewed
About World Foundation
- Chain TVL
- $29.82M DefiLlama
- Type
- Nonprofit foundation (Cayman Islands exempted limited guarantee foundation company)
- Structure
- Foundation
- Status
- Active
- Founders
- Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Max Novendstern
- Headquarters
- George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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Funding and backers
As stated in Crypto Coin Show interviews and coverage. This is not a complete funding history.
What World Foundation told us
2 moments · 1 interviewIn their own words on Crypto Coin Show. Tap Watch to jump to that exact moment.
“If you were to use Face ID in the same way from a regular iPhone camera, you would get collisions at like 15 to 30 million users.”
DBDC BuilderResearch Engineer, World Foundation · Jun 2026▶Watch at 7:26“Give it like two to three years, I think most of the payments on the internet are going to run on these rails, even maybe without people knowing it.”
▶Watch at 18:29
Market
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- World IDIdentity system using zero-knowledge proofs for verified human identity
- AgentKitIntegration with Coinbase linking AI agents to verified human identity
- WLDToken associated with World Foundation platform
Timeline
- Raised $52.5M (Initial close of a locked WLD token sale led by Pantera Capital. Purchasers receive no equity in Tools for Humanity)
- First interview on Crypto Coin Show Watch
- World Foundation completed $65 million OTC token sale at $0.27 per WLD CCS coverage, Mar 2026
- World Foundation began operating orbs for identity verification CCS interview, Jun 2026
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