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World Chain will leverage the OP stack and offer special perks to verified Worldcoin users.<\/p>\n
Controversial eye-ball scanning company Worldcoin<\/a> is launching its own blockchain, dubbed World Chain, aiming to address the common issue of bots on blockchains.<\/p>\n World Chain will offer special treatment to verified users \u2013 those who scanned their irises \u2013 with priority blockspace and free gas.<\/p>\n The new blockchain is built using Optimism\u2019s OP stack, a framework that allows for Ethereum compatibility. This represents a move to expose the nascent L2 to Ethereum\u2019s giant developer and user base.<\/p>\n \u201cBringing the entire world onchain presents a monumental task, exceeding the capacity of any single entity, and collaboration is key,\u201d said the Worldcoin Foundation in an email to The Defiant.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why being part of the Superchain alongside Optimism, Coinbase, and the wider Ethereum ecosystem made sense.\u201d<\/p>\n Amid widespread crypto volatility<\/a> heading into Bitcoin\u2019s halving, WLD has barely budged<\/a> today. It trades at $4.82 after a 27% weekly drop.<\/p>\n The project is controversial due to how it works \u2013 with many calling it crypto\u2019s most dystopian<\/a> project.<\/p>\n It uses a physical orb to scan users\u2019 eyeballs, verifying their unique human identity, all in exchange for a number of WLD tokens. The company has an ambitious plan<\/a>: exchange money for a biometric passport that leads to a World ID.<\/p>\n And how it works has brought a number of legal challenges to the Sam Altman-backed venture.<\/p>\n The company is facing several bans worldwide, the latest of which is in Portugal. That leaves Germany as the sole European country it can operate in.<\/p>\n In Chile, a country that has seen more than 1%<\/a> of its population scan their eyeballs, Worldcoin has been slapped with a judicial order that has the backing of a former Chilean senator to stop operating in the country.<\/p>\nPrivacy Concerns and Legal Issues<\/h2>\n