Worldcoin price and where to buy WLD

What is Worldcoin?

WLD is the token of World, formerly Worldcoin, a project that verifies that a user is a unique human by scanning their iris with a device called the Orb and issuing a digital identity, World ID. WLD is used for governance and distributed to verified users. The maximum supply is 10 billion WLD.

How to buy Worldcoin, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. WLD is listed on four of the five exchanges we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy WLD. Use the WLD/USDT or WLD/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. WLD runs on its own network and on Ethereum; choose the network your wallet expects when you withdraw.

Where to buy Worldcoin at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on WLD the venues disagree by about 0.059 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Worldcoin price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.059 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 11 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 2.1 percent at its widest.

About two thirds of the WLD spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Worldcoin price

The wider crypto market, and in WLD’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, WLD moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.49, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about three times the size of Bitcoin’s.

Worldcoin-specific news moves it too: regulatory action on its iris scanning, token unlocks, and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Worldcoin

Pros

• Tied to a distinctive identity project with a large user base.
• Listed on four of the five exchanges we track.
• A tight average gap between exchanges for its size.

Cons

• Data-protection regulators in several countries have suspended or restricted its iris scanning at various points.
• Its hourly moves were about three times Bitcoin’s in our data.
• It trades far below its all-time high of about $11.74.

Worldcoin’s highest price

Worldcoin’s all-time high is about $11.74 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the WLD to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.