World Network presented its largest update to the World ID protocol, which extends humanity verification to new platforms: Zoom, Tinder globally and a ticketing tool called Concert Kit. The announcement was made during the “Lift Off” event, hosted by Sam Altman, co-founder of the project and CEO of OpenAI, along with Alex Blania, CEO of Tools for Humanity, this April 17, in San Francisco.
The updated protocol introduces support for multiple keys, key rotation, recovery mechanisms, and formal session management. The network too presented a new concept called “human continuity”, which seeks to verify that the same real person is present in all digital interactionsunlike traditional models that only authenticate devices or credentials. Along with this, a dedicated World ID app that functions as a portable authenticator was released in public beta, and the protocol SDK became open source.
As for specific integrations, Zoom adopted a protection feature against deepfakes which uses a hardware-backed root of trust to confirm that participants in a video call are real people. Tinder, for its part, will implement a verified human badge on profiles worldwidean expansion of the pilot that was already operating in Japan since December 2025. Concert Kit, meanwhile, is a new tool for selling tickets to live events with integrated human verification.
The business model was also formalized: applications using World ID will pay fees per credential and per protocol, while end users access it for free.
A protocol with 18 million users and pending controversies
World is a cryptocurrency project co-founded by Altman that seeks to build a universal digital identity layer. Its central mechanism is the Orb, a device that scans the iris of users to generate a unique identifier that certifies humanity without revealing personal data.
As reported by CriptoNoticias, in 2024 the company updated the hardware with NVIDIA chipsets, achieving five times the previous performance, and incorporated personal data custody and facial authentication as a second factor.
The network today has 18 million verified users in 160 countries. However, The collection of biometric data has generated regulatory investigations in several countries. A case was opened in Mexico for possible breach of personal data, and Kenya temporarily suspended project operations for similar reasons. The company maintains that it does not store the iris images after completing the verification.