Worldcoin (WLD)

Business Insider reports that Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's iris-scanning startup, hired two law firms last year to investigate allegations of financial irregularities and bribery of foreign officials. The first probe, conducted by Sidley Austin, examined whether the company's operations in Thailand violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Tools for Humanity had been working with a company linked to a South African businessman whom U.S. and Thai officials have accused of involvement in transnational cyber-fraud scams. The company has since severed ties with that business partner. The second investigation, conducted by O'Melveny & Myers, looked into concerns raised by a company staffer about potential misuse of funds, including personal expenses charged on company credit cards and alleged misclassification of full-time employees as contractors to lower their tax burden. It also examined allegations that senior leaders approved six- and seven-figure payments to a foreign firm to boost the value of the Worldcoin token, a potential SEC violation. Findings from at least one of the investigations were presented to the board, which includes Altman, CEO Alex Blania, and Spencer Bogart of Blockchain Capital. The company says it "is not aware of any facts establishing a violation" of the FCPA by the company or its employees. The Worldcoin token is currently trading around 61 cents, down 95% from its peak of $11.79 in March 2024. The company recently laid off roughly 15% of its workforce.

🚨BREAKING: S(C)AM ALTMAN'S EYE-SCANNING EMPIRE IS NOW BEING INVESTIGATED OVER ITS OWN MONEY. Here's what people forget about the Orb. It was sold to the world as the fix for the AI age, a polished silver ball that scans your iris, certifies you as a real human, and rewards you with crypto for sitting still. Tools for Humanity raised hundreds of millions on that pitch, pushed Orbs into more than 160 countries, and kept Altman on as chairman while the token did the marketing. Then the story slowly turned inside out. Business Insider reported this morning, as an exclusive, that the Orb startup investigated financial misconduct allegations inside its own walls, the first time the scrutiny moved from how it handles your eyes to where its money actually went. And that landed on top of a reputation that was already bleeding. Back in 2024 analysts like DefiSquared and the on-chain investigator ZachXBT openly accused the team and its backers of propping up WLD and letting insiders profit, with ZachXBT going as far as calling it one of the biggest scam tokens of the cycle. The company denied all of it, said it found no evidence of manipulation, and pointed to a trading blackout, yet the label stuck and the token kept sliding until it sat down roughly 90% from its peak. Then it got darker than tokenomics. A Whale Hunting investigation by Project Brazen found that Tools for Humanity had unwittingly become entangled with a criminal dirty-money network tied to Chinese scam centers in Cambodia, a network that appears to have used its association with Altman's project to buy itself a veneer of legitimacy in Thailand. Thailand is where the paper trail got loud. The SEC and the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau raided a WLD exchange service sitting right beside a registration site and arrested people for allegedly running an unlicensed digital asset business, though the company insists the person arrested was never affiliated with it. Weeks later the data regulator ordered it to stop scanning Thais entirely and delete the iris records of roughly 1.2 million people. So trace the whole arc. A company built to prove who is human got investigated for how it harvested your eyes in country after country, watched its token collapse under accusations of insider games it denies, brushed up against an organized-crime laundering network it says it never meant to touch, and is now answering questions about misconduct in its own books. The most surveilled startup on earth spent years demanding the world prove it was real, and the one thing still waiting to be verified is the company itself.

I'm shocked. Just SHOCKED!!

#WLD Current view. Since September it has broken the resistance of the descending channel it formed, and from the level I shared it has shown a rise of over 90% in about 20 days. Although our first two targets have been reached, we are still waiting for the channel target at $0.84. After the last rise, the overall market declined and $WLD entered a correction, which now appears to be completed. If the overall market remains stable, it can be expected to continue its short‑term rise and aim for the higher levels I indicated on the chart. Stay tuned.

Dropping my watchlist for the next possible trade i might take All based on candle close and confirmation for entering, for now i am waiting $WLD $TAO $INJ https://t.co/4arIoOAsv2

World Chain is becoming one of the few L2s that still have genuine interaction demand. In the past 30 days, WLD has surged over 130%, active addresses on World Chain have risen sharply, and it has consistently ranked among the top consumers of Ethereum Blob space, second only to Base. However, the on-chain ecosystem remains thin, with TVL concentrated in a few protocols, and a large amount of bridged funds has yet to be turned into deeper DeFi activity.

Setting some $WLD spot limits at: 0.5075-0.484 SL: H12 close below 0.448 (4% risk) https://t.co/Y7VSefJhaT

$WLD is quietly doing something that most traders completely miss. It’s not just pumping. It’s progressing through historical expansion zones almost step by step. First came the move into Target Zone 1. Then price pushed into Target Zone 2. Now the market is approaching the same area where the largest expansion in $WLD history previously began. That’s what has my attention. Most people look at the chart and see a coin that’s already moved. I see a structure that’s following a very similar path to prior cycle expansions. The key detail? Target Zone 3 hasn’t been fully explored yet. Historically, this area acted as a launchpad for the strongest phase of the trend, where momentum accelerated and price discovery took over. The higher-low structure remains intact. Demand continues to absorb every meaningful pullback. And despite the volatility, buyers keep stepping in at higher prices. That’s not what distribution looks like. That’s what trend continuation looks like. The market loves narratives. But charts usually tell the story first. $WLD spent months building a base while nobody cared. Now it’s moving through the exact zones that mattered during previous expansions. If momentum stays intact, the current move may only be the beginning of a much larger trend. Most traders won’t believe it until it’s trading several multiples higher. By then, the opportunity won’t look nearly as attractive.