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"Everyone should have equal access to a decentralized identity and free access to a decentralized financial system."

After several months, the popularity of ChatGPT is still lingering.

Only two months after its launch, ChatGPT has over 100 million monthly active users and has become the fastest growing consumer application in history. It once swept the global Internet and triggered a circle-breaking effect, making the AI ​​​​field more and more popular. Much attention.

The positioning and goals of the World App are extremely ambitious. Its team hopes to enable billions of people around the world to obtain decentralized identities and access to the decentralized financial system through this application. The World App is not only the first encrypted wallet to natively support the Worldcoin ecosystem, but also a breakthrough innovation initially built on the Ethereum sidechain Polygon (a blockchain that can send and receive assets from Ethereum), providing users with Provide a gas-free transaction experience. On May 11, local time, the Worldcoin Foundation and Tools for Humanity officially established a partnership with Optimism Collective, and the World App was also migrated from Polygon to the Optimism mainnet. In addition, the World ID protocol can also be used on the Optimism mainnet.

Observation: Inside the World App

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"Putting the wealth and human identity of the crypto world within our grasp."

From the official introduction of World App, it can be seen that it is a minimalist application that focuses on privacy and inclusiveness. Platform users will travel through a simple and unique encrypted world, without sharing personal data, they only need to authenticate themselves through their own World ID (that is, convert the biometric data code generated by iris scanning into "human proof"), and they can freely share and communicate with the world. On this platform, users can transfer money to anyone for free, explore and use encrypted tokens, and will get the opportunity to apply for Worldcoin Grants benefits every month.

In addition, World App users can store and send digital currency with the option to deposit and withdraw using bank accounts or local payment methods, while sending money instantly to friends or family around the world for free using phone contacts or encrypted addresses with no fees . At the same time, the World App allows you to explore and use cryptocurrencies immersively, including Ethereum and Bitcoin, and more tokens will be launched in the future. You can track your holdings, receive notifications such as important price changes, and easily use your balance to trade on existing markets. Moreover, World App also provides 24/7 d multilingual (English/Spanish/Portuguese) online support service, allowing users to get help no matter when and where.

Traceback: The "Chosen CEO" Behind World App

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"If you throw Sam Altman on some cannibal island, in 5 years he'll be the king of that cannibal island."

Sam Altman (Sam Altman), the founder of Worldcoin, who developed the World App retrospectively, as the father of ChatGPT, he became famous overnight, so the launch of this new product is also in just a few days It attracted a lot of attention.

Sam Altman chose to stop studying at Stanford University in 2005 and began to officially enter his entrepreneurial journey. He developed the mobile application Loopt for the first time and finally sold it for $43 million in 2012. After that, Sam Altman founded Hydrazine Capital venture fund raised a total of 21 million US dollars and invested 75% of the funds in Y Combinator; in 2014, Sam Altman, who was only 28 years old, took over the post of president of YC and started a wonderful life in the field of global entrepreneurship and innovation; in 2015 , Sam Altman co-founded the non-profit artificial intelligence company OpenAI with Musk and others; in 2019, Sam Altman officially served as the CEO of OpenAI. After that, under his leadership, ChatGPT came out and became popular all over the world.

And this time, the establishment of Worldcoin and the launch of the World App encrypted wallet, for Sam Altman, the most fundamental vision is to create a fair and effective way in this world defined by artificial intelligence. Enjoy an unconditional basic income (UBI) to bring the benefits of this technology to as many people as possible. He once mentioned in "Moore's Law that Applies to Everything": "To the three major technological revolutions—agriculture, industry, and computing—we must add a fourth: the artificial intelligence revolution. If we act responsibly as a society manage it properly, then the revolution will generate enough wealth so that everyone can have what they need.”

Sam Altman states, "The creativity in the world is amazing. Every time our tools get a little better and more accessible, our creativity advances more than we can imagine." Hence, the World App The launch of this new project also carries Sam Altman's ambition for the future wealth system of mankind in the Web3 era.

Looking ahead: Web3 golden age - not behind, but in front

"I'm sitting on the edge of a cliff with an AI, and looking up, the future can be very good, and looking down, the future can be very bad. I can prepare for the worst, wallow in fear and extremes, but emotionally I What's more comfortable is our journey to greatness together."

——Sam Altman

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As the design team of World App, TFH has high ambition and confidence. They are very happy to share and provide the first-stage experience of World App to users all over the world. In their vision, as time goes by, World App will evolve into a toolkit that empowers individuals in the age of artificial intelligence, tools uniquely enabled by decentralized technologies to address privacy-preserving identity issues, including proof of identity, access to internet-native financial services, fair global distribution of digital currencies , the governance of public goods, and ultimately the path to AI-funded UBI.

There is no doubt that after creating the stunning masterpiece ChatGPT, whether the new World App project can set off a new wave in the Web3 era remains to be further tested by time and the encryption market, but the launch of this project may mean that Web3 The golden age is coming.