Worldcoin announced that the Wormhole interoperability platform has extended its World ID feature to the Solana blockchain, according to a September 13 statement.
The expansion is the result of a grant from the Worldcoin Foundation, which supported World ID’s integration with Solana. However, the feature is not yet active as the smart contracts are still undergoing a security audit, which is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.
WLD climbed 10% to $1.61 on the news, before retreating to around $1.51 at the time of writing, based on Crypto Slates facts.
World ID on Solana
World ID is key to Worldcoin’s mission. It uses eye scans from Worldcoin’s Orbs to create unique IrisCodes. These codes generate world IDs to verify human identity and tackle the proliferation of bots in the digital world.
Worldcoin stated that this move would allow Solana developers to build applications that “prioritize real people.”
Wormhole, a cross-chain platform, will enable this on Solana by allowing protocols on the network to seamlessly authenticate people’s world IDs, which were originally verified on Ethereum. World ID is initially built on Ethereum and Optimism.
Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, commented:
“Bringing World ID to Solana is a major step forward in identity verification. With the integration of World ID and Wormhole Queries, developers can now easily build applications that prioritize real users across all chains, increasing trust in decentralized ecosystems.”
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