Sam Altman's World Wide Web Introduces New Chat Feature for Real People to Connect
Sam Altman's World Wide Web Introduces New Chat Feature for Real People to Connect
The new feature, a “mini-app” accessible through the World App wallet, will offer World Network digital passport holders a unique experience by allowing users to scan their iris in exchange for an account that provides “identity verification.”
Margot Nijkerk | Edited by Aoyon Ashraf Updated March 6, 2025, 15:57 UTC Published March 6, 2025, 14:00 UTC
What you need to know:
- Sam Altman's blockchain project World Network is entering the messaging market with a new feature: World Chat.
- The new feature, a “mini-app” accessible through the World App wallet, will offer World Network digital passport holders a unique experience by allowing users to scan their iris in exchange for an account that provides “identity verification.”
- World Chat is the latest version of World's ongoing efforts to help people distinguish between bots and real people in the age of artificial intelligence.
Sam Altman's blockchain project World Network is entering the messaging market with a new feature: World Chat.
The new feature, a “mini-app” accessible through the World App wallet, will offer World Network digital passport holders a unique experience by allowing users to scan their iris in exchange for an account that provides “identity verification.”
World Chat is the latest version of World’s ongoing efforts to help people distinguish bots from humans in the AI era. “By connecting World ID, World Chat lets you know when you’re chatting with a verified user,” the developers of World Tools for Humanity told CoinDesk.
Those who haven’t used World’s Orb iris scanner will also have access to a new chat feature. The new messaging app borrows design elements from Apple’s iMessage, which uses blue chat bubbles for iPhone users and green for everyone else. “Conversations with verified World ID holders will display a blue chat bubble and a unique World ID gem in the upper-right corner,” Tools for Humanity explains. “Conversations with unverified accounts will display a gray chat bubble and no gem.”
According to Tools for Humanity, mini apps launched as early as October 2024, and more than 250 million mini apps were opened in the first two months of 2025.
“The World App has grown so much in the last year that we’ve heard repeated requests for a DM layer. We think for some actions, like sending money, it would be much more natural and engaging than going into your wallet and sending a transaction,” Tiago Sada, head of product at Tools for Humanity, told CoinDesk. “People have been asking for a chat product specifically.”
World Chat will be available in the World app for Android and iPhone iOS users starting Thursday.
In addition to World Chat, World and the Friends With Benefits social protocol are teaming up with Alchemy, Bain Crypto Capital, Blockchain Capital, and Variant Fund to launch an incubator program called World Build. The program includes hackathons, building retreats, and a demo day, and aims to encourage developers to build “mini apps.”
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