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This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Sam Altman’s World (formerly Worldcoin) is adding an important “Mini App” within its iOS and Android app called World Chat, which lets you “connect, chat, and send money” to people verified by the World Network.  And yes, based on the screenshots, you can send cryptocurrencies like USDC directly within your chat. World Chat is in beta for now, but there are already over 100 other so-called mini apps on World. That’s a lot — I don’t think you’d be able to use all of them regularly. “World Chat will be integrated with other Mini Apps to help drive even more growth and engagement in the ecosystem,” Tools For Humanity Chief Product Officer Tiago Sada said.  Tools For Humanity is the for-profit firm tied to World, but World also has the World Foundation (like most projects that launch a token). Altman, who is also founder and CEO of OpenAI, has predicted that at some point, the internet as we know it will become overrun with bots — so much so that it’ll be hard to tell who is a real human. Well, I think we all know that ship has already sailed. From bots on social media to AI agents that can get around CAPTCHAs, we’re already living in a very artificially intelligent world.  Downloading the World app on your phone will show you where you can get your iris scanned to prove you’re human and use the platform, including the World Network. From there, you can access mini apps and use its crypto rails. Worldcoin is the native token for the World Network, a blockchain dedicated to ID verification. You go to one of those weird eyeball-scanning orbs, and you can get some tokens to ultimately sell…

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Filed under: News - @ March 6, 2025 7:19 pm