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Finance

BitMine's Ether Treasury Crosses 2.15M, Stake in Worldcoin Vehicle Rises 10-Fold

The firm's $214 million stake in Worldcoin-linked Eightco highlights its first equity "moonshot" alongside growing ETH reserves.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Finance

BitMine Now Holds $9B in Crypto Treasury, Fuels 1,000% Surge in WLD-Linked Stock

BMNR also announced a $20 million investment in Eightco Holdings (OCTO), which plans to hold worldcoin (WLD) as its primary treasury asset.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Markets

Worldcoin’s WLD Surges 25% as $250M Treasury Deal Fuels Momentum

More than 530,000 new users verified in the past seven days, the highest jump in weeks, lifting the total above 33.5 million.

(Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Worldcoin Rival Humanity Protocol Debuts $1.1B Mainnet for Privacy-First Web2 to Web3 Identity

Humanity Protocol’s $1.1B-valued mainnet uses zkTLS to link Web2 credentials with Web3 services while keeping user data private.

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Policy

China Warns Worldcoin-Style Iris Scanning a National Security Threat

A new advisory from China's Ministry of State Security highlights what it calls national security risks based on foreign firms collecting biometric data under the guise of crypto giveaways.

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

Finance

Sam Altman’s World Chain Adds Native USDC Stablecoin and Circle’s Cross-Chain Service

World Network also integrates Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2) to move USDC across a range of blockchains.

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Tech

Sam Altman’s World Raises $135M in Token Sale to a16z and Bain Capital Crypto

Funds from the venture capital giants will be used for the network's expansion.

Sam Altman (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

World's Iris-Scanning Tech Misunderstood, Data Never Leaves Orb, Advisor Says

World Foundation Advisor Liam Horne spoke Wednesday at Consensus 2025.

World Foundation Advisor Liam Thorne Speaks at Consensus 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Sam Altman’s World Network in Talks With Visa for Stablecoin Payments Wallet: Source

The move will make World Wallet into a "mini bank account" for anyone who wants it, according to a person familiar with the plans.

The worldcoin orb. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Sam Altman's World Network and Razer Want to Defeat Gaming's Bot Problem

The teams are releasing “Razer ID verified by World ID,” which is a single sign-on mechanism that will verify real human gamers from bots.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

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