Inside Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto party

One of World’s orbs. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

On the evening of April 30th, the hottest summons successful San Francisco was a buzzy crypto startup's coming-out party astatine a warehouse-like analyzable connected the bluish borderline of the city. It had each the makings of an lawsuit you'd lone find adjacent Silicon Valley: Anderson Paak, champagne, and a clump of eye-scanning orbs.

Onstage, Sam Altman and co-founder Alex Blania announced that the cryptocurrency Worldcoin is coming to the US for the archetypal time, on with a bevy of orbs. The thought is consecutive retired of subject fiction. It whitethorn beryllium excessively far-fetched to work, but fixed Altman's involvement, it's thing worthy paying attraction to.

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.