Worldcoin jumped up to 40% after reports of OpenAI’s plans for a new social media platform.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin WLD $0.27 24h volatility: 2.0% Market cap: $883.73 M Vol. 24h: $55.10 M project is back in the spotlight as his AI company, OpenAI, unveils a new social media platform aimed at competing with Elon Musk’s X.
Following the announcement, Worldcoin’s price increased by 40%, attracting significant attention from traders.
Worldcoin Price Moves Following OpenAI Social Media News
In the past 24 hours, Worldcoin rose from $0.45 to $0.65 before retracing to around $0.52. Its market capitalization currently stands at $1.44 billion.
Daily trading volume increased 820% to $681 million, indicating high activity among traders. WLD futures open interest also rose 75% to $192 million, according to Coinglass data.
Worldcoin rose on Jan. 29 after reports indicated that OpenAI is developing a new social media platform featuring a “proof of personhood” system.
In an interview with Forbes, sources familiar with the matter said OpenAI is exploring the development of a “humans-only” platform, which would allow it to differentiate itself from existing social media services.
Competing With Facebook, LinkedIn, and X
Sources told Forbes that a small team of just 10 people is developing an app with a biometric identity verification feature.
They said any form of “proof of personhood” could be confirmed using Apple’s Face ID or the Worldcoin Orb scanner.
Worldcoin is a popular iris scanning identification project built by OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
The biometric verification system is intended to make sure that every account on OpenAI’s proposed social network corresponds to a real person.
On the other hand, platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and X have relied mainly on phone numbers, email verification, and behavioral or network-based signals to establish user authenticity.
None of these platforms currently use biometric verification.
In September 2025, OpenAI signed a $300 billion computing infrastructure agreement with Oracle, which briefly boosted Worldcoin’s price.
Separately, BitMine invested $250 million into WLD treasury reserves, citing the World ecosystem’s zero-knowledge proof technology as a tool for trust and verification in future platforms.
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