Sam Altman’s Worldcoin (WLD) Expands to Solana (SOL) Blockchain Via Wormhole
A crypto project that made waves last year with its iris-scanning technology has made its way to a new blockchain. According to a new blog announcement from Sam Altman’s Worldcoin (WLD), the identity-focused project is making the jump to Solana (SOL) via the Wormhole interoperability platform. Says Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, “Bringing World ID to Solana is a big step forward for identity verification. With the integration of World ID and Wormhole Queries, developers can now easily build applications that prioritize real users across chains, improving trust in decentralized ecosystems.” World ID is Worldcoin’s decentralized identity protocol, which aims to create a more verifiably human crypto-ecosystem. Worldcoin and World ID were originally built on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, and users will now be able to authenticate user IDs on Solana that were originally minted on ETH, according to the announcement. In April of th...