https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/sam-altman-eye-scanning-id.htmlSam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called "Za Warudo", officially launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites.
Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and it spends 33 seconds scanning your face and iris, then creates and stores a unique "IrisCode" for you verifying that you're a human and that you've never signed up before.
>Then you get some of the project's cryptocurrency, WRD, for free,and you can use your World ID as a sign-in with integrated platforms, which currently include an open API
>integration with Minecraft, Reddit,Telegram, Shopify and Discord.
Starting Thursday, the company is opening six flagship U.S. retail locations where people can sign up to have their eyeball scanned: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the venture announced two high-profile partnerships: Visa will introduce the "World Visa card" this summer, available only to people who have had their irises scanned by Warudo, and the online dating giant Match Group will begin a pilot program testing out World ID and some age verification tools with Tinder.