Worldcoin (WLD) fell 13.4% to $0.28 on Friday, April 17, as its parent company World announced a major upgrade to its identity verification system and a wave of new platform integrations.
The drop came even as the broader crypto market climbed 2.2%, boosted by news of the US and Iran easing tensions and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
World, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, held an event in San Francisco to announce what it called “World 4.0.” The update positions World ID as “full-stack proof of human” infrastructure for consumers, businesses, and AI agents.
The system uses a device called the Orb, which scans a user’s face and iris in person to generate a unique cryptographic code. The images are deleted after processing, and only anonymized data is shared across a distributed network.
Senior executive Daniel Shorr said at the event: “World 4.0 is powerful, scalable and open. In the age of AI, being human will be incredibly valuable and the internet will want to know you’re human.”
Sam Altman added: “World ID is on the way to being a real human network for the internet.”
New features in the update include account-based identity, multi-key support, and account recovery tools. World also launched a dedicated World ID app, currently in beta, to let users manage and share their credentials across platforms.
Video platform Zoom is integrating World’s “Deep Face” feature to verify that meeting participants are real humans and not deepfakes. Electronic signature company Docusign is adding World ID verification to its digital agreements.
No more deepfakes on video calls. @worldnetwork identify verification on @Zoom. pic.twitter.com/0ap0IOKR6H
— World (@worldnetwork) April 17, 2026
Dating app Tinder is expanding its World ID “verified human” badge to US users. World also introduced a “Concert Kit” tool to help artists reserve tickets for real people, cutting out scalper bots.
Gaming partnerships with Razer and Mythical Games were announced, while Reddit said it is exploring World’s tools for bot detection.
On the enterprise side, World is working with Okta, Vercel, and Browserbase. These integrations aim to build trust layers for automated workflows.
World also launched “AgentKit,” a developer toolkit that links AI agents to verified human identities. Coinbase had already announced in March it would use AgentKit for its x402 AI micropayments protocol.
Other existing partners include Amazon Web Services, Shopify, Browserbase, Exa, and VanEck.
Some critics have raised privacy concerns about collecting biometric data at scale, particularly when managed by a single company.
WLD is the native token of the World Network, used to reward users for verifying their identity and to power transactions within its ecosystem.
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