Sam Altman’s controversial blockchain project, World, is launched in the US and said it intends to roll 7,500 eye-scanning “Orbs” in cities across the country by the end of the year.

The world’s bullet chrome, bowling ball-shaped devices scanning a person’s eyeballs to confirm their identity-will originally be available to Americans in six “key innovation nodes”, the company said: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco. Those who decide to take the plunge and look into the ORB get access to the World app and receive an air from the world’s WLD Token. By the end of the year, the project aims to get enough bullets spread across the United States to give 180 million Americans, more than half the population, access to the world’s network.

Altman and other leaders on the world’s parenting tools for humanity announced the US expansion at a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday night along with a staggering series of new features and partnerships for the project.

The World app will now offer its users access to crypto-backed loans through non-parenting authority protocol-morfo and prediction markets through Kalshi. Later in the year, WLD holders may be able to use their tokens as cash with a new world-tied Visa payment card. The project even integrates its identity verification technology into some online dating apps. From tinder users in japan will online dating giant match group pilot using World ID to verify ages for its users.

Altman said the idea for the World was Openai, his generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) company.

“We needed a kind of way to authentize people at the age of [artificial general intelligence]”Said Altman during the press conference.” We needed a way we could know what content was made by people, [and what was made] by AI. We wanted a way to make sure people remained special and central to a world where the Internet should have plenty of AI-driven content. “

Altman’s original ideas on how to solve the problem of human verification were “very crazy,” said the male world and its eye-scanning Orbs, just a little.

The world is the latest crypto project announcing an American expansion. Since President Donald Trump joined in January, the regulatory environment has become much friendlier for crypto projects.

The company announced that it would build a factory in Richardson, Texas – a suburb of Dallas – to help produce the bullets needed for its upcoming US expansion. After the initial roll -out, other major cities, including Seattle, Orlando, San Diego and Las Vegas, receive the second wave of bullets.

“They really want to be everywhere,” said Alex Blania, tools for human co -founder. “They will be in gas stations, convenience stores, and you will be able to verify within 10 minutes wherever you are.”