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World Network raises $52.5 million to expand biometric identity system linked to crypto
The World Foundation, backed by Sam Altman, raised $52.5 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital by selling locked tokens to strategic investors. The funds will be used to expand its biometric identity infrastructure, which verifies that online users are human rather than AI systems.
Why it matters for the crypto market
As demand grows for ways to distinguish humans from AI agents online, a crypto-native identity network attracting major institutional funding points to a potential new use case for blockchain infrastructure.
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