Wormhole Brings World ID to Solana

Wormhole, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, has integrated Worldcoin’s World ID with Solana. The move is the first-ever merger of World ID with a protocol that doesn’t live within the Ethereum ecosystem.

It’s important to note that the smart contracts are currently being audited by Ackee and will be completed in a few weeks.

“Bringing World ID to Solana is a big step forward for identity verification,” said Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, in a press release. “With the integration of World ID and Wormhole Queries, developers can now easily build applications that prioritize real users across chains, improving trust in decentralized ecosystems.”

Branching off into other protocols that aren’t Ethereum shows Worldcoin’s intention to grab market share across the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It also underscores the importance of Solana since last year – mostly thanks to a significant technical upgrade and the appearance of memecoins – as one of the biggest players in the space.

Wormhole’s W token is up 5% to $0.21 today, SOL notched a 2% gain, and Worldcoin’s WLD briefly spiked 8% to $1.51.

Under Investigation

Worldcoin is nothing short of controversial. Thanks to its unique form of signing up new users – people have to scan their eyeballs in a dystopian silver orb which rewards them with WLD tokens – it has garnered scrutiny from privacy defenders across the globe.

As such, the project, backed by the co-founder at OpenAI, Sam Altman, has been booted from several countries. The latest is Singapore. On Sept. 9, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) revealed that seven individuals suspected of selling accounts and tokens for Worldcoin without proper licenses are under investigation.