Worldcoin, newly rebranded World—the crypto-fueled, eyeball-scanning identity platform co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—launched the mainnet for its own Ethereum layer-2 network called World Chain on Thursday.

World Chain is rolling out with the goal of bringing millions of verifiable human users onto the blockchain, in addition to promoting the development of digital identity tools and applications that promote financial freedom, its core team told Decrypt.

Many blockchains are dominated by bots, World advisor Liam Horne told Decrypt. But World Chain hopes to serve the kinds of users who the project believes stand to benefit most from blockchain technology: human beings. 

“On a lot of chains, there’s more algorithmic trading bots that are kind of moving money around on chains than [there are] people,” Horne said. “World Chain is about expanding out the set of use cases for [humans], and also building a blockchain in a kind of a way that is more designed for them.”

World Chain is part of Optimism’s Superchain, a network of interoperable layer-2s that share security and other infrastructure. As such, it is interoperable with more than two dozen chains, such as

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Author: Liz Napolitano