{"content":"💰 Worldcoin Secures $135M — WLD Soars 15% on Fresh Funding Frenzy After selling $135 million worth of liquid WLD tokens at spot price to Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bain Capital Crypto, Worldcoin's parent organization, the charity World Foundation, boosted its biometric-identity initiative. The foundation clarifies that the direct purchase of non-discounted liquid tokens, not a venture round, adds the same amount of WLD to circulating supply without lock-ups or preferential conditions. The sale will fund Worldcoin's quick growth of its iris-scanning “Orb” technology in the US, the project's hardest legal arena, and to meet rising demand internationally. The buy's magnitude and conditions surprised market analysts. On X, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said that a16z and Bain purchased $135 million in Worldcoin (WLD) at a market price that had dropped 90% in the previous 14 months. I doubt I've seen it. Interesting.” When a user suggested the purchase may be a “look at this thing that Sam Altman is involved with that’s so cheap,” Hougan responded, “yes, could be.” Worldcoin views its “proof-of-personhood” approach as a counterbalance to AI acceleration. The foundation believes identity verification systems “should scale at a similar pace to help prepare humanity for the AGI era,” and the current cash will be used to make additional Orbs, subsidize US city roll-outs, and improve the protocol's price model. On a weekly chart of WLD/USDT (Binance), price rebounded V-bottom from the low at $0.57, the 0-Fib anchor in the current retracement grid, and entered the cluster of moving averages that have capped every rally since January. Clearing the 20-week EMA ($1.27) would reveal the 50-week EMA at $1.87 and the 0.236 Fibonacci retracement at $3.27. The psychologically significant $5 area around 0.382 may follow. As long as price stays below $1.33-$1.41, the longer-term structure is negative. #WLD #DinnerWithTrump #SaylorBTCPurchase #ETHMarketWatch $WLD ","images":["https://d2kdcqywr8ua22.cloudfront.net/uploadfile/article/blog/2025052025/05/23/f55be74e528e48c289b45c96dbbe43df.png"],"tags":[],"tradingPairs":["ETH/USDT"],"quotearticleid":0}