Worldcoin Launches World Chain

Worldcoin, led by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, launched World Chain, a new blockchain focusing on human users and efficiency in Web3.

They've created over 10 million World IDs and processed 75 million transactions, showing rapid growth.

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World Chain prioritizes transactions from verified human users over bots to avoid network congestion.

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