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Worldcoin (WLD) Rises 117% After Treasury News: Can it Sustain?

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Worldcoin’s (WLD) price is skyrocketing today, Sept. 9, 2025. CoinGecko data shows that WLD’s price has risen by 49.2% in the last 24 hours, 117.9% in the last week, 113.8% in the 14-day charts, and 74.5% over the previous month. Worldcoin’s (WLD) price rally is far outshining Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and the larger market rebound. Source: CoinGecko What’s Fuelling Worldcoin’s Rally? Will It Sustain? Source: CryptoPotato Worldcoin’s (WLD) latest price spike comes after Eightco Holdings Inc. announced the creation of a WLD treasury. It will mark the first treasure for Worldcoin (WLD). According to the announcement, Eightco Holdings Inc. has secured a $250 million private placement to initiate the treasury. The firm has received an additional $20 Million Strategic Investment from BitMine (BMNR). The development may have led to a substantial spike in investor confidence. Crypto-based corporate treasuries have become increasingly popular over the la...

Over half of World ID holders haven’t scanned their eyeballs

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Sam Altman’s World got its eyeball count wrong by 14 million More than half of World’s 26 million ID holders have yet to verify themselves using the company’s controversial eyeball scanning orbs. The X account for World Chain, the blockchain behind the “World Network,” claimed that the number of World IDs stood at over 26.1 million on April 28, closely matching the number of World App users that week.  However, it didn’t match World’s 12.35 million “unique humans.” World’s parent company, Tools for Humanity, clarified that this figure represents the number of World ID holders who have a verified ID.  The numbers speak for themselves https://t.co/8RoEelWxEl pic.twitter.com/fZLiniggQx — World Chain (@world_chain_) April 28, 2025 Read more: World Network is still 988 million sign-ups short of its 1 billion-user goal This means that 13.75 million only have “unverified” World IDs and haven’t actually scanned their eyeballs yet.  World couldn’t reach i...

Hong Kong's Privacy Authorities Ask Worldcoin to Cease Operations

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Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has released the findings from its investigation into Worldcoin (WLD). The investigations began in January 2024 and aimed to uncover if the project breached any privacy laws. According to the report, ‘ The PCPD carried out 10 covert visits during the period from December 2023 to January 2024 at six premises. ‘ The premises were at Yau Ma Tei, Kwun Tong, Wan Chai, Cyberport, Central, and Causeway Bay. Also Read: Worldcoin Paying Orb Operators in WLD Instead of USDC The Worldcoin (WLD) project requires the collection of users’ faces and iris images through an iris scanning tool. The investigation found that the project collected face and iris images of 8302 individuals during its operation in Hong Kong. According to the report, ‘ the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the Privacy Commissioner), Ms. Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, found that the operation of Worldcoin in Hong Kong had contravened th...