Austin Barack
CIO of RockawayX Liquid, Fundamental Long/Short Investing
Worldcoin's $52.5m capital raise and today's 43% emissions cut should materially reduce sell pressure on the WLD token. WLD has traded as an OpenAI IPO beta asset, and Worldcoin is quietly making material progress on business development and growth. The token sits right around support levels, making for an interesting setup. x.comÂ
Worldcoin is set up for a hated rally and short squeeze, backed by a strong narrative in identity attestation as AI spreads. The upcoming OpenAI IPO adds a tailwind, and an integration with ChatGPT's 1 billion monthly users is plausible since both were founded by Sam Altman, though nothing has been discussed publicly. Emissions decline soon, the token is heavily shorted, and World has 39 million accounts and 18 million verified users. It is breaking above all moving averages with clear momentum. x.comÂ
Worldcoin is gaining real adoption as the proof-of-human layer for an internet full of bots. About 17.9 million people have World IDs, and users include Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Okta, Visa and Stripe; World Money adds stablecoins and payments in 150+ countries, and Eightco holds WLD as its treasury asset. On the chart, it has made higher lows since an August bottom; a clean break of $0.67 opens a path to $0.93. x.comÂ
Worldcoin's privacy-preserving identity layer is part of the AI build-out. World ID proves users are unique humans without exposing private information; the August thesis cited use by Zoom, DocuSign, Tinder and Okta, a $52.5M token sale locked for 12 months and a Grayscale ETF filing. Worldcoin is probably one of the best alts, could reach new highs this bull with an OpenAI IPO at a $1T valuation, and could surge very soon. x.comÂ
World Chain's tiny on-chain fees and WLD's continuing unlocks leave the token facing vesting pressure. Daily fees are only hundreds of dollars, while roughly 2.9 million WLD unlock each day after July's cut; about 3.8 billion of the 10 billion cap circulates. x.comÂ
Ethena is the highest-conviction pick in this altcoin basket, followed by Worldcoin with good conviction. Plasma's dead-cat bounce can be sharp, LayerZero's team will eventually run out of tokens to sell, and DoubleZero is a crime-conviction bet. x.comÂ
Human verification is becoming the next layer of the internet as AI bots and deepfakes surge, supporting Worldcoin and Eightco. Per CoinDesk, Sam Altman's World Network rolled out a major upgrade to its World ID proof-of-human system to combat deepfakes and bots. Institutions are accumulating Eightco: per Fintel data, institutional holdings rose from about 50 million shares in December 2025 to about 98 million in April 2026, up 96%, while the price sits near lows. x.com x.comÂ
Worldcoin's token unlocks, worth around $100 million a month, need that much exit liquidity every month, and the buyers to absorb them have been drained. x.comÂ
Worldcoin is building the proof-of-human layer the AI economy needs, since verifying real humans matters more as AI agents, bots and synthetic identities multiply. Nvidia's $96.2B quarter shows AI becoming infrastructure, and that economy needs trust as well as compute. x.comÂ
ORBS stands to rerate once the CLARITY Act passes the Senate, given its crypto-heavy holdings. Its $333M of assets include $90M in OpenAI, 277M Worldcoin tokens (9% of supply), over 11,000 ETH, $25M in MrBeast's Beast Industries and $110M in cash and stablecoins. The act just reached a stablecoin compromise with Coinbase backing and White House involvement, and Polymarket odds of passage jumped from 46% to 64% overnight. x.comÂ
Worldcoin is a poor way to play major AI IPOs because it tends to get sold into OpenAI hype. Pre-IPO exposure is preferable. x.comÂ
Eightco's Worldcoin stake should gain value because the better AI gets, the more human verification is needed. The World Network already partners with Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Visa, Shopify, Stripe and Okta, and can earn enterprise verification and onchain transaction fees. Eightco holds 283.4M WLD, about 8.1% of supply, plus $90M of indirect OpenAI equity, 16,278 ETH, $18M of Beast Industries and $149M in cash. A bottom may be forming, but the stock needs to reach $0.90 to move higher. x.comÂ
