Worldcoin Foundation prodala institucím včetně Pantera Capital 217 milionů WLD za zhruba 52,5 milionu USD, tedy asi se 36% diskontem proti tržní ceně. Tokeny mají roční lock-up.
According to EmberCN’s monitoring, the Worldcoin Foundation sold 217 million WLD tokens to institutions including Pantera Capital roughly 8 hours ago, securing approximately $52.5 million in funding. The Worldcoin Foundation had not previously disclosed the specific sale price, but following the announcement, the team wallet transferred around 217.4 million WLD tokens to multiple addresses. Calculated based on the token volume and financing amount, the sale price came to roughly $0.24 per token, a roughly 36% discount to WLD’s current market price. The sold WLD tokens are subject to a 1-year lock-up period, with institutional investors gaining trading eligibility once the lock-up period expires.
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World Foundation získala v prvním uzavření prodeje WLD 52,5 milionu USD; všechny tokeny v tomto kole jsou na rok zamčené. Peníze půjdou na rozvoj World ID pro firmy, spotřebitele i AI agenty.
Pantera Capital led the first close of a WLD sale that the foundation says will push its iris-scanning “proof of human” ID toward enterprises, consumers, and AI agents.
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The World Foundation, the nonprofit steward of the Sam Altman co-founded identity project once known as Worldcoin, said Friday it raised an initial $52.5 million in a token sale to strategic investors, with every WLD token in the round locked up for a year.
Pantera Capital led the first close, according to a press release, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto and other backers. The foundation said the full 12-month lockup signals a long-term bet rather than a quick flip, and that the money will go toward pushing World ID, its “proof of human” verification system, to organizations, consumers and their AI agents.
A bet on the agentic web World’s pitch is that as AI agents flood the internet, platforms will need a dependable way to tell people apart from machines. Its answer is a one-time iris scan at a physical device called the Orb, which generates an ID that proves someone is a unique human without exposing who they are.
“The need for Proof of Human is becoming acutely clear with the acceleration of AI development, and we see this in the influx of enterprise traction,” said Cosmo Jiang, a general partner at Pantera Capital, in a statement. The foundation said World ID is being wired into platforms including Zoom, Docusign, Okta, Vercel and Tinder this year, and pointed to the enterprise-focused World ID 4.0 it released earlier in 2026.
Scaling as the token lags The raise landed on the three-year anniversary of World’s July 2023 production launch, a stretch in which the network grew to more than 39 million members and over 18 million Orb-verified humans. It also follows the $135 million World sold to Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto in May 2025, when the network counted 26 million users.
Investors committed even as WLD trades around $0.37, roughly 97% below its March 2024 peak.
Tom Lee, a board member of Eightco, the Nasdaq-listed company that holds more than 283 million WLD, said in the release that World’s technology is “among the most important building blocks to secure and verify interactions in an increasingly digital driven world.”
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Woldcoin (WLD) price trades around $0.3838 at press time on Thursday, extending a consolidative tone capped beneath the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $0.4141. WLD token emissions are scheduled to drop by 43% from Friday, reducing supply pressure. Retail activity in WLD derivatives remains firm, with a 40% rise in trading volume and elevated funding rates.
Headwinds to ease for WorldcoinWorldcoin prepares to reduce daily token emissions by 43% on Friday. Community locked tokens emission rate will drop by 50%, from 3.2 million WLD to 1.6 million WLD, while team and investor emissions will decline by 32% from 1.9 million WLD to 1.3 million WLD. Taken together, the total emissions will approximately reduce from 5.1 million WLD to 2.9 million WLD. Typically, a reduction in the new token supply entering the market potentially eases supply pressure.
In addition, Grayscale submitted an S-1 application for a WLD-focused Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which could boost institutional demand if approved.
On the retail front, speculative activity in WLD derivatives remains elevated. CoinGlass data shows the trading volume is up 40% in the last 24 hours to $396.25 million, while the notional value of active perpetual contracts remains stable, with Open Interest (OI) holding at $290.17 million. At the same time, the funding rate remains positive at 0.0077%, reflecting a bullish bias among traders.
WLD derivatives data. Source: CoinGlassJake Kennis, Senior Research Analyst at Nansen, told FXStreet, “43% unlock reduction cuts daily emissions by nearly 2.2 million WLD tokens, while the Grayscale spot ETF application opens a regulated demand channel.” Kensin added, “If the ETF is approved and attracts inflows, shrinking new supply, meeting a fresh buyer base, which could lead to a genuine supply-demand tightening if the demand is high enough.”
Beyond the ETF and supply cut decision, Kennis highlighted, “World Chain scaling and full network decentralization, which is targeted for late 2026, ecosystem expansion, Orb rollout, and real world integrations with merchant payment partnerships,” could boost demand for WLD tokens. However, regulatory developments around biometric ID, which remain the project's biggest existential risk.
Could Worldcoin regain bullish momentum?Worldcoin holds below both the 50-day and 200-day EMAs, which keeps the near-term bias bearish. From a technical perspective, WLD consolidates between 50-day EMA at $0.4141 and the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement of the upswing from $0.2267 to $0.27229, at $0.3438.
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) sits marginally above its signal line, indicating consolidative momentum. At the same time, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) around 44 shows a bullish divergence with the higher low formation during the July 1 and 19 lows.
A decisive close above $0.4141 could test the resistance cluster of the 200-day EMA at $0.4654 and the 50% retracement at $0.4748. If WLD clears this zone, the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement at $0.6167 could emerge as the next overhead target.
WLD/USDT daily price chart.Looking down, the crucial support for WLD emerges at $0.3438, where a sustained close could extend its decline to the Fibonacci anchor at $0.2267.
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Grayscale ve své žádosti o Worldcoin ETF uvedl, že 100 největších peněženek drží zhruba 90 % obíhající nabídky WLD. Dokument zároveň upozorňuje na rizika koncentrace a centralizovaného řízení sítě.
Grayscale’s filing for a proposed Worldcoin ETF has revealed that the 100 largest wallets control roughly 90% of the circulating WLD supply.
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Grayscale’s proposed Worldcoin ETF filing says the largest 100 wallets hold about 90% of the circulating WLD supply. The filing states that governance remains largely under the World Foundation while World Chain continues to rely on centralized infrastructure. The disclosures come days after Grayscale sought SEC approval to launch a spot Worldcoin ETF that would hold WLD directly. According to a recent SEC registration statement filed by Grayscale for its proposed Grayscale Worldcoin ETF, the largest 100 wallets held approximately 90% of all WLD in circulation as of the filing date. The disclosure appeared in the fund’s risk factors, where the asset manager outlined ownership concentration and governance risks tied to the token that would back the proposed exchange-traded fund.
The filing comes only days after Grayscale sought approval to list the product on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD, offering investors direct exposure to Worldcoin through a traditional brokerage account instead of requiring them to purchase and store the token themselves.
If approved, the trust would hold WLD directly, use the CoinDesk Worldcoin Benchmark Rate to determine its net asset value, and rely on BitGo Bank & Trust as custodian, while The Bank of New York Mellon would serve as administrator and transfer agent.
The ownership data disclosed by Grayscale differs from Worldcoin’s original vision for token distribution.
Worldcoin’s whitepaper said most WLD tokens would eventually be claimed by individuals who verified themselves as unique humans through the project’s identity system. Grayscale instead warned that a relatively small group of early adopters currently controls a substantial share of the tokens already released.
The registration statement adds that it is “reasonably likely” that early holders own a significant portion of the circulating supply, making WLD more concentrated than its long-term distribution goals suggest.
One of the largest addresses identified in public blockchain data belongs to the bridge connecting Ethereum and World Chain, meaning part of the concentrated holdings may represent assets deposited by multiple users rather than a single owner. Even so, Grayscale’s filing presents the overall concentration level as a material risk for prospective investors.
Filing outlines governance and decentralization risks Beyond token ownership, the filing also describes several parts of the World Network that remain under centralized control.
According to Grayscale, governance of the network continues to be substantially guided by the World Foundation despite previous plans to decentralize decision-making over time. The filing states that WLD may eventually be used for governance, although the mechanisms required to support that transition remain new and untested at scale.
The disclosure contrasts with earlier statements from the project, which had promoted proof-of-personhood as a foundation for one-person-one-vote governance. Grayscale’s prospectus says governance has not yet reached that stage and continues to rely largely on the World Foundation.
The filing also identifies operational risks linked to the blockchain itself. World Chain currently depends on a centralized sequencer, while upgrade functions remain under the coordinated control of a limited group associated with the World Foundation, Tools for Humanity, and Optimism, the Ethereum layer-2 infrastructure supporting the network.
Grayscale further states that the Orb devices used to verify users are still manufactured and distributed mainly by or under the direction of Tools for Humanity. The filing also notes that the World Foundation continues to exercise significant influence over the protocol, the WLD treasury, and ecosystem grants.
ETF proposal arrives after recent ecosystem developments The governance disclosures accompany Grayscale’s broader proposal to launch the first U.S. exchange-traded fund holding WLD directly.
Under the proposed structure, the trust would function as a passive investment vehicle without leverage or derivatives. Authorized participants would create and redeem shares in blocks of 10,000, known as baskets, either by delivering WLD directly or through cash transactions facilitated by liquidity providers. Grayscale has not yet disclosed the management fee, seed investment, or the number of WLD represented by each share, leaving those details for future amendments.
The SEC filing does not guarantee regulatory approval, and Nasdaq cannot list the product unless regulators approve the registration process.
The proposed ETF follows several developments that have increased attention on Worldcoin during recent months. In June, Robinhood added WLD to its trading platform, giving the token access to a larger retail audience.
Despite the listing, WLD fell nearly 15% on the day as traders focused instead on allegations reported by third parties involving Sam Altman and entities connected to the Worldcoin ecosystem, alongside continuing criticism of the project’s biometric identity verification system and token distribution model.
Grayscale filed with the SEC on July 20 for a spot Worldcoin (WLD) exchange-traded fund. The fund would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart confirmed the filing on X. The twist is that Grayscale’s own paperwork spells out why WLD is such a risky bet.
What the Grayscale Worldcoin ETF Filing SaysThe SEC filing shows Grayscale moved fast. It formed the trust on July 10 and filed just 10 days later. BitGo will hold the WLD, and BNY Mellon will run the fund’s books.
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Grayscale knows this path well. Its Bitcoin Trust became a spot ETF in January 2024 after the firm beat the SEC in court. Solana and Dogecoin funds followed in late 2025.
Some details are still missing. The fee is blank, and no trading partners are named yet.
The Risks Grayscale Itself ListsWorldcoin verifies humans by scanning their eyes with a device called the Orb. The filing admits regulators pushed back hard. Spain, Portugal, Germany, Hong Kong, Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia all took action between 2024 and 2025.
The token math looks rough too. The 100 largest wallets hold about 90% of circulating WLD. Team and investor tokens keep unlocking until around July 2028.
Then there is the price. WLD trades near $0.375, up 3.3% on the day. That is still about 97% below its March 2024 peak of $11.74.
Worldcoin (WLD) Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoA June treasury purchase gave the token a brief lift. Meanwhile, Tools for Humanity layoffs at the project’s lead developer dragged it back down.
GWLD cannot trade until the SEC signs off and Nasdaq clears the listing. Easier access may help, but WLD’s path forward likely hinges on those token unlocks.
Eightco Holdings (ORBS) oznámila treasury v hodnotě zhruba 397 milionů USD, včetně nepřímého podílu v OpenAI v hodnotě 90 milionů USD, 18 milionů USD v Beast Industries, 16 278 ETH a 283 milionů WLD. Hodnota WLD při zveřejnění činila 149 milionů USD.
Public markets rarely get a direct window into a company’s crypto conviction. Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) just pried that window open. The firm’s July 8 snapshot shows total holdings of roughly $397 million, a figure built from an unusual mix of AI equity stakes and liquid crypto assets. The treasury includes an indirect $90 million position in OpenAI, $18 million in Beast Industries, 16,278 ETH, and 283 million WLD tokens—valued at $149 million at the time of disclosure.
For a Nasdaq-listed entity, the composition reads less like a traditional balance-sheet hedge and more like a concentrated bet on AI infrastructure and on-chain identity. The Ethereum stack alone is large enough to place Eightco among the more exposed public-company ETH holders, even if it still trails dedicated crypto treasury companies by a wide margin. Meanwhile, the Worldcoin (WLD) position dwarfs many crypto-native funds’ allocations to the token and directly ties the company’s fortunes to the adoption curve of the World Network.
What the Treasury Actually Holds The numbers matter because they’re unusually granular. Most corporate disclosures round crypto exposure into a catch‑all “digital assets” line. Eightco separated equity from tokens and named the projects. That level of detail is uncommon and forces the market to price not just crypto volatility but also private AI valuation risk. The $90 million indirect OpenAI stake raises immediate questions about how that valuation was derived—secondary market pricing for OpenAI equity has been choppy, and liquidity is thin. Beast Industries, a smaller position at $18 million, adds another layer of exposure to the AI hardware and robotics sector.
On the crypto side, 16,278 ETH represents roughly $36 million at current prices, assuming a ballpark $2,200 per ether. The bulk of the reported value, however, sits in 283 million WLD tokens. WLD’s fully diluted valuation and trading volumes have swung dramatically over the past year as the project rolled out biometric verification hubs across emerging markets. Holding that many tokens—likely acquired through grant agreements, market purchases, or strategic allocations—creates a direct link between Eightco’s balance sheet and World Network user growth numbers.
A Corporate Treasury Without the Usual Guardrails Public companies that hold crypto typically stick to bitcoin or ether, often citing their liquidity and regulatory clarity. Eightco’s decision to allocate heavily to WLD sits outside that playbook and reflects a different thesis. Instead of treating crypto as a store of value or inflation hedge, the treasury appears structured around ecosystem participation—staking, governance, or alignment with a protocol’s long-term infrastructure play. The Ethereum position and the Worldcoin exposure both point toward a conviction that identity protocols and AI-native distribution rails will accrue value faster than general-purpose smart contract platforms alone.
That approach aligns with a broader shift in institutional thinking tracked by recent tokenization and treasury moves. As real-world asset tokenization crosses $20 billion on-chain and traditional finance firms settle Treasury trades directly on public ledgers, the line between equity holdings and token allocation blurs. Eightco’s structure may look aggressive now, but it’s increasingly part of a pattern where a balance sheet becomes a portfolio of protocol positions.
What Stays Unanswered The press release leaves several holes. There is no disclosed cost basis for the ETH or WLD, making it impossible to judge whether the treasury is deep in profit or exposure is concentrated near entry. The indirect OpenAI stake is not explained—whether through a special-purpose vehicle, secondary purchases, or a fund commitment. Liquidity for that position is unknown, and so is any lockup or redemption schedule.
For WLD, the lack of detail on how tokens were sourced matters. If they came from early grants tied to network contributions, selling restrictions could limit balance-sheet flexibility. If they were purchased on secondary markets, volatility cushions are thinner. Regulatory risk also hovers over Worldcoin in multiple jurisdictions where biometric data collection by a private network continues to attract scrutiny from data protection authorities. A sudden enforcement action would not only hit the token price but could reshape the company’s entire book value overnight.
The disclosure arrives during a week when Ethereum itself sat near the top of developer activity rankings, reinforcing the idea that infrastructure value and treasury allocations are becoming harder to separate. For Eightco, the market now has a clear view of a $397 million wager that mixes two of the most volatile and politically sensitive corners of tech into a single public-company filing. The numbers are big enough that every subsequent quarterly update will be watched for changes in token balances and valuation marks.
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WLD patří mezi nejhorší kryptoměny tohoto cyklu, za týden klesl asi o 8 % a za měsíc téměř o 23 %. Ani plánované snížení denního unlocku o 43 % trh zatím neuklidnilo.
Worldcoin's $WLD token has emerged as one of the worst performers in the current crypto cycle, slipping roughly 8% on the week and nearly 23% on the month even as many major altcoins stage a recovery.
A Planned Supply Cut Has Not Steadied the Price The losses have come despite a significant supply-side development from @worldnetwork. On July 24, 2026, the WLD token unlock rate will decrease by 43% under the existing unlock schedules. In practice, this will reduce the unlock rate across all token allocations from about 5.1 million WLD per day to about 2.9 million WLD per day. The cuts are split between two groups: the aggregate daily unlock rate drop includes a 50% cut in daily community token unlocks and a 32% reduction in daily team and investor unlocks.
The July 24, 2026, unlock rate decrease will happen automatically, coded into the on-chain contracts from the start. The team has framed the event as a tokenomics milestone, arguing that the most aggressive phase of emissions is now behind the project. Markets, however, have not yet responded with enthusiasm.
Supply Overhang and Regulatory Pressure Weigh on $WLD WLD has lost over 45% of its value since the start of 2026 and trades roughly 97% below its March 2024 peak near $11. The persistent underperformance reflects two structural headwinds. First, the token's circulating supply is already large: a total of 4.9 billion WLD, representing 49% of the token's 10 billion maximum supply, has been unlocked so far, with approximately 3.3 billion WLD in actual circulation. Even after the July 24 reduction, the market will still absorb nearly 2.9 million new WLD tokens daily, meaning demand must keep pace to prevent further price erosion.
Second, regulatory risk remains a persistent overhang. Worldcoin faces significant regulatory headwinds concerning its biometric data collection, with operations suspended or investigated in countries including Kenya, Spain, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Market reaction will ultimately depend on whether demand for WLD, from governance, staking, ecosystem incentives, or speculative flows, grows faster than the slowed unlock curve. Until that demand materialises, WLD's ongoing downtrend and weak sentiment may continue to weigh on price action, limiting the near-term impact of the reduced token unlocks.
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World Network: Tokenomics Milestone, WLD Unlock Rate to Decrease by 43% in July
BeInCrypto: Worldcoin Cuts Token Unlock By Half, Will WLD Price Rally?
Crypto.news: Worldcoin Eases Off the Gas as WLD Unlock Rate Drops 43%
Tools For Humanity loni spustila dvě externí vyšetřování kvůli údajnému zneužití milionů USD a manipulaci s cenou Worldcoinu. Její thajský partner je navíc podezřelý z mezinárodně hledaného podvodu.
According to a Business Insider report citing sources familiar with the matter, Tools For Humanity, the developer of Worldcoin, launched two separate investigations last year, both led by external law firms, targeting alleged improper use of funds by executives and suspected violations in its Thailand operations respectively. Relevant executives are accused of approving payments of millions of US dollars to a foreign firm. The funds were not used for normal business purchases or service fees, but to artificially inflate the market price of its cryptocurrency Worldcoin. In addition, Tools For Humanity's Thai partner turned out to be a suspect in an internationally wanted "pig butchering" scam. Meanwhile, regulators in multiple countries around the world have raised serious questions about Tools For Humanity's iris scanning and data collection practices.
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Canonical bridge World Chain vzrostl za sedm dní o 32,87 % na zhruba 602 mil. USD a WLD přidal 33,6 %. On-chain DeFi TVL ale zůstává jen kolem 39,7 mil. USD.
World Chain's canonical-bridge TVL climbed 32.87% over seven days to about $602M, with WLD tracking the move at +33.6%. The growth concentrates in Re7 Labs vaults on Morpho Blue, while the chain's on-chain DeFi TVL remains near $40M.
Total value locked in the canonical bridge of World Chain, the Optimism Stack rollup operated by Worldcoin's Tools for Humanity, climbed 32.87% over seven days to about $602M, according to a DefiLlama snapshot earlier this morning. The token tracked the move, with WLD up over 50% in the same window.
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Bridge InflowTwo World Chain TVL figures circulate, and they describe different things. The bridge TVL counts Ethereum-side assets locked to enable use on the L2, currently around $605M. The on-chain DeFi TVL counts assets sitting inside protocols deployed on World Chain itself, which DefiLlama puts at roughly $39.7M today.
The 33% move belongs to the bridge. The on-chain figure is up sharply too on a percent basis, with chain TVL history showing a 2,567% climb from $1.5M in October 2024, but it remains a thin slice of the bridged base.
Bridge inflow shows that holders are committing capital to the L2 environment, while on-chain leverage and DEX volume are expanding more slowly. Most of the bridged stack sits idle from a DeFi-yield perspective. The active deployment is concentrated in Re7 Labs vaults and a handful of Morpho markets.
WLD Price Worldcoin's token is up 52% over the past seven days to about $0.67, with a $2.3B billion market cap and a $6.7 billion fully diluted valuation, per CoinGecko. The 30-day chart shows a 189% gain, a sharper recovery than the chain TVL alone would imply. WLD remains roughly 94% below its March 2024 peak of $11.74.
The token's recovery sequence has tracked a series of operational milestones at Tools for Humanity rather than a single trigger. Arthur Hayes exited his WLD position on June 6, days after his Maelstrom fund had publicly pitched the asset as a liquid AI-IPO trade.
World App 3 and Orb 2Tools for Humanity rolled out World App 3.0 at its Unwrapped event last December, pitching the wallet as a super-app that bundles encrypted messaging, mini-apps from Polymarket and Kalshi, and stablecoin support across USDC, EURC and several LatAm currency tokens. The verification base now sits near 7M humans across roughly 35 countries and 2,000 Orb locations, up from about 6M earlier this year.
The smaller Orb 2 hardware, unveiled by the company in April, is the operational lever Tools for Humanity is leaning on for US expansion. The company has flagged a 7,500-Orb target for the country and a manufacturing run of more than 50,000 devices per year. Partnerships with Tinder, Zoom and Docusign for human verification, announced earlier this spring, route consumer traffic into the World ID stack outside the wallet itself.
Regulatory pressure has not easedThe privacy disputes that defined Worldcoin's launch period remain mostly unresolved. Kenya's High Court declared Tools for Humanity's operations illegal in May 2025 and ordered a seven-day biometric data purge under Justice Aburili. Brazil's ANPD blanket ban issued in January 2025 has not been lifted; the regulator threatened fines of about $8,800 per day if operations resumed. Germany's BayLDA delivered a GDPR deletion order in December 2024. Spain's AEPD ban from March 2024 is still in force.
None of those jurisdictions show up in the verification footprint Tools for Humanity now markets. The company's public posture has been to describe the disputes as resolvable through compliance redesigns. Regulators have largely not agreed in writing.
What sustains the inflow trendThe L2 sits at 43rd by chain TVL on DefiLlama, behind Algorand and ahead of Vaulta. The bridge ranking puts it well inside the top tier of canonical-bridge balances among OP Stack chains. Whether the seven-day move marks a durable shift or another cycle peak depends on whether the deployed on-chain TVL catches up to the bridged base, or whether the bridge balance retraces toward where on-chain activity currently sits.
The two interpretations split cleanly on the read. If bridged capital becomes deployed capital, World Chain joins the working L2 group on more than nominal terms. If bridged capital sits idle and the WLD rally fades, the move logs as a positioning event tied to the broader Worldcoin recovery narrative rather than a structural step.
Robinhood přidal Worldcoin (WLD) na svou platformu 23. června 2026, ale token během 24 hodin spadl téměř o 15 % na zhruba 0,53 USD. Trh zároveň tíží obvinění z manipulace ceny a Arthur Hayes svou pozici ve WLD dříve v červnu zcela zlikvidoval.
Key Takeaways Robinhood added Worldcoin (WLD) to its trading platform on June 23, 2026 The token plummeted nearly 15% within 24 hours, hovering near $0.53 Reports surface alleging Sam Altman’s involvement in schemes to manipulate WLD’s market value Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder, liquidated his complete WLD position earlier this month A reduction in token unlock velocity is scheduled to begin July 24, 2026 On June 23, 2026, Robinhood integrated Worldcoin (WLD) into its cryptocurrency trading suite, as confirmed through an official announcement on X by the popular brokerage platform. This integration was designed to provide the digital asset with access to Robinhood’s extensive retail investor base. However, contrary to expectations, WLD experienced a sharp decline of approximately 15% over the subsequent 24-hour window, settling around the $0.53 mark.
Worldcoin (WLD) Price Market participants had anticipated the listing would generate positive momentum and increased buying activity. Instead, the token encountered significant resistance from traders who appeared hesitant to establish new positions. WLD continues to trade substantially beneath its recent June high of approximately $0.70.
Podcast host Katie Miller brought attention to an investigative report alleging that executives at Orb, a company connected to the Worldcoin network, authorized substantial payments to an overseas organization. According to these claims, the transfers were intended to artificially inflate WLD’s market valuation. These accusations have intensified scrutiny on a project already under fire for its controversial biometric identification framework.
Adding to the negative momentum, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes revealed earlier in June that he had completely divested his WLD position. His departure from the token further dampened market sentiment and contributed to investor uncertainty.
Supply Dynamics and Unlock Schedule Worldcoin has announced plans to decrease its token unlock velocity beginning July 24, 2026. Reduced unlock rates limit the speed at which fresh tokens flow into the circulating supply. Such modifications have traditionally helped alleviate downward price pressure in cryptocurrency markets.
Nevertheless, market participants seem more preoccupied with the ongoing controversy than the forthcoming supply adjustment. Current trading patterns indicate that concerns over the project’s reputation are overshadowing any potential benefits from improved tokenomics.
Critical Support and Resistance Zones Analyzing the daily timeframe, WLD has retreated to the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement zone around $0.53 following its inability to maintain support above $0.60. The MACD indicator has registered a bearish crossover, while its histogram has dipped into negative territory.
Source: TradingView The RSI has similarly declined from elevated levels, signaling diminishing bullish momentum. Should the token break below the $0.53 support level, technical analysts project potential downside targets at $0.48, with further weakness possibly extending toward $0.42.
To neutralize the current bearish outlook, WLD would need to reclaim territory above $0.62.
In related developments, speculation regarding a potential OpenAI initial public offering has maintained focus on projects associated with Sam Altman. However, no substantive connection has been established between OpenAI’s corporate trajectory and Worldcoin’s token structure.
At press time, WLD was changing hands at approximately $0.5577, representing an intraday decline of nearly 12%.
