World App Expands Ecosystem into Gaming With Razer Partnership

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman’s World Network is partnering with gaming giant Razer to help gamers distinguish humans from bots, according to an emailed announcement.

The collaboration introduces ‘Razer ID Verified by World ID,’ a proof-of-human technology. By integrating World Network’s verification system, gamers will be able to distinguish between humans and bots and ensure multiplayer games center around real users.

​​“As [Artificial Intelligence] AI continues to reshape the gaming world, we want to empower gamers and game developers with the tools they need to navigate this transformation safely and confidently,” said Wei-Pin Choo, Chief Corporate Officer of Razer said in a press release. “Growing a verified community is key to fair play.”

A third-party survey commissioned by World Network highlights growing frustration with AI bots in gaming: 59% of gamers regularly encounter bots, 71% say they ruin competition, and 18% have quit games entirely because of them. Meanwhile, 75% of frequent gamers favor biometric verification to ensure fair play.

Bot Interference

Through World ID, Razer and World Network are tackling one of gaming’s biggest challenges: bot interference. By leveraging biometric identity verification—a capability World is known for through its ‘Orb’ technology—players can differentiate humans from bots.

"If you just kind of look at where [World] started, it was really to solve a very fundamental problem in computer science called Sybil resistance," Steven Smith, Tools For Humanity’s Head of Protocol, told The Defiant. Sybil resistance is the ability to prevent malicious actors from creating multiple fake identities to manipulate or dominate a network.

"What the Orb allows us to do is distinguish one person from another on a population-level scale. So essentially, a proof of uniqueness—not necessarily who you are, but just that you are a unique human in this identity data set,” he explained.

Currently, 11.5 million users have verified their uniqueness through the Orb, while World App has grown to 24.5 million users across 160 countries.

The announcement comes as World has been facing legal issues over privacy concerns – the network was ordered to cease its services in Brazil earlier this year by the country’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).

World’s native token Worldchain (WLD) is currently trading at $0.85, up 1.2% over the past 24 hours and 5.4% in the past week, according to CoinGecko.

World Chat and Crypto Payments

The Razer partnership follows World Network’s recent launch of crypto payments within World Chat, a “mini app”now available in beta on World App. Built on World Chain, World Chat allows users to send and receive digital assets directly within conversations, without leaving the chat interface.

According to Smith, Mini Apps are a core part of World App’s vision, providing developers with an easy way to build and integrate new features without requiring blockchain expertise.

“We call them Mini Apps, and as the name implies, they run inside World App, leveraging all its capabilities—its framework, back end, and by proxy, World Chain,” Smith explained. “To develop a Mini App, you don’t need to know anything about blockchain, Ethereum, or Solidity. It just makes it incredibly simple to focus on what you want to build.”

World’s ecosystem is growing rapidly, with over 100 Mini Apps already live and new submissions rolling in weekly, Smith said, hinting at even bigger developments ahead.