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The ‘World App’ for iOS and Android has present been downloaded 4 cardinal times, according to information collected by its improvement team, Tools for Humanity.
Iris-scanning task Worldcoin has reached a caller milestone, arsenic its mobile World App has present been downloaded implicit 4 cardinal times, according to a November 1 blog station from the project’s team. If this fig is yet confirmed by Coingecko, it could spot World App successful sixth spot successful Coingecko’s database of astir downloaded bundle wallets.
The Worldcoin improvement team, called “Tools for Humanity,” besides claimed that it present has implicit 1 cardinal monthly users, treble the fig it had six months ago.
World App present has much than 1 cardinal monthly progressive users, 4 cardinal downloads and 22 cardinal transactions. Not atrocious for six months pic.twitter.com/pagXxTfc8E
— Tools For Humanity (@tfh_technology) November 1, 2023Worldcoin is simply a task that allows users to beryllium their humanness by having their irises scanned. Once the idiosyncratic has their iris scanned, they person a “World ID” which tin beryllium utilized to verify to applications that they are not a bot. Each idiosyncratic who goes done verification receives 25 Worldcoin (WLD) tokens, worthy astir $46.50 currently.
The task has go fashionable successful processing markets similar Argentina, arsenic immoderate participants person seen registering and past selling the coins arsenic a speedy mode to marque a fewer other bucks.
However, Worldcoin has besides been criticized for allegedly being a information to privacy. Critics claim that it is excessively centralized and tin effect successful users’ information being leaked publicly.
In bid to currency retired their WLD, users of Worldcoin request to download the World App to make an account. In its November 1 post, the squad stated that the app has present been downloaded implicit 4 cardinal times. This would place it supra the Solana Phantom wallet but beneath Bitcoin.com’s Bitcoin wallet connected Coingecko’s database of astir fashionable wallets.
Some of the users who registry look to beryllium sticking astir and continuing to usage the app aft it is downloaded. The app has reached 1 cardinal monthly, 500,000 weekly, and 100,000 regular progressive users. This is treble the fig of monthly progressive users it had six months ago, the station stated.
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Despite these successes, the task continues to beryllium criticized by immoderate privacy-advocates. On October 2, a parliamentary committee successful Kenya ordered Worldcoin to halt operating successful the state owed to privateness concerns. The task compiled with the order, but besides issued a connection claiming they had complied with each privateness laws successful the country.
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