Worldcoin cuts WLD daily unlocks 43%; 4.9B tokens unlocked

Worldcoin will cut daily WLD unlocks by 43% on July 24, reducing the release rate from about 5.1 million WLD per day to roughly 2.9 million per day.

The change lowers community token unlocks from 3.2 million WLD per day to 1.6 million and trims team and Tools for Humanity investor daily unlocks from 1.9 million to 1.3 million. The reduction equals about 2.2 million fewer WLD per day and around 803 million fewer WLD entering unlock schedules over a full year. Worldcoin published July 24 as a fixed date for the schedule change and said the unlocks follow a linear timetable with no cliff.

Company figures from April 10 show 4.9 billion WLD, or 49% of the 10 billion supply, was already unlocked at that date, with 3.3 billion WLD in circulation then. Market data in early July indicated about 3.52 billion WLD circulating, a price near $0.38, a market capitalization around $1.34 billion and 24‑hour trading volume near $192 million.

Worldcoin has presented World ID as a source of token utility. Company posts describe a model in which applications could pay World ID fees while end users remain free, and state that tokens would be used to pay those fees. The protocol has outlined that fee revenue could be allocated to network operations or to token burns.

The company reported that nearly 18 million people have verified their identities at an Orb and that World Network participants span 160 countries. Named enterprise integrations include work with Zoom and DocuSign, along with a VanEck-linked beta and other partners testing proof-of-human flows.

Regulatory and privacy reviews have affected the project’s rollout in parts of Europe. Spain’s data protection authority ordered Tools for Humanity in March 2024 to stop collecting and processing personal data in Spain, citing concerns such as inadequate information, collection of minors’ data and limits on withdrawing consent. In February 2026 the Spanish regulator said it had warned the company about a planned restart and the company temporarily postponed relaunch plans to review the issues. Germany’s Bavarian data protection office concluded an investigation in December 2024 and required a GDPR-compliant deletion procedure to be applied across Europe when processing personal data.

Worldcoin has described changes to its privacy architecture intended to limit exposure of biometric data, including zero-knowledge proofs and one-time-use nullifiers meant to avoid storing personal identifiers.

After July 24 the daily unlock rate will be lower while the already-unlocked supply remains in the market. Observers will monitor fee volume, token-settled usage, recurring application demand and any explicit burn mechanisms to assess whether World ID activity generates recurring demand for WLD.