{"id":895232,"date":"2026-03-29T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/sam-altmans-world-sells-239-million-wld-through-otc-deals-with-partial-lockup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:12:13","slug":"sam-altmans-world-sells-239-million-wld-through-otc-deals-with-partial-lockup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/sam-altmans-world-sells-239-million-wld-through-otc-deals-with-partial-lockup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u2019s World sells 239 million WLD through OTC deals with partial lockup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the biometric identity verification protocol formerly known as Worldcoin, disclosed today that its subsidiary completed the sale of around $65 million in WLD tokens through a series of over-the-counter deals with four counterparties over the past week.<\/p>\n

Based on the disclosed average price, World Assets, Ltd., the unit responsible for token issuance and distribution, sold approximately 239 million WLD tokens.<\/p>\n

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1\/ World Assets, Ltd. has now closed a series of OTC sales for a total of $65,000,000 with four counterparties over the past week, the first of which settled on March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2014 World Foundation (@worldcoinfnd) March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of the $65 million raised, $25 million in tokens are locked up for six months to prevent immediate selling by buyers, as noted by the team.<\/p>\n

The first settlement was completed on March 20, with the remaining transfers conducted from a designated World Assets multisig wallet. Funds are earmarked for core operations, R&D, manufacturing of the project\u2019s iris-scanning Orb devices, and expansion of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

The disclosure comes after blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain reported last week that World offloaded 117 million<\/a> WLD tokens valued at $39 million via OTC trades. <\/p>\n

WLD traded at around $0.27 at press time, down 13.5% in the past week, CoinGecko data<\/a> shows. The token once peaked at $11.7 in March 2024.<\/p>\n

Tom Lee-backed Eightco Holdings<\/a> is the largest publicly traded holder of WLD, controlling 277 million tokens as of March 20.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2019 by Sam Altman, Alex Blania, and Max Novendstern, Worldcoin combines biometric identity verification with crypto to pioneer a global proof-of-personhood system.<\/p>\n

Its ecosystem features the Orb-based World ID, the WLD token, the World App wallet, and the World Chain layer 2 network.<\/p>\n

World ID has verified nearly 18 million unique humans, with close to 39 million World App users. The network spans 160-plus countries, supported by 948 active Orbs, and continues to grow with over 60,000 new accounts and 16,000 verifications in the past week.<\/p>\n

Disclosure:<\/strong> This article was edited by Vivian Nguyen. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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World Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the biometric identity verification protocol formerly known as Worldcoin, disclosed today that its subsidiary completed the sale of around $65 million in WLD tokens through a series of over-the-counter deals with four counterparties over the past week. Based on the disclosed average price, World Assets, Ltd., the unit responsible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29127,644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-altmans","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}