BlockBeats report: On April 18, World released a major upgrade to the World ID protocol, reaching approximately 18 million users globally who have verified via Orb and expanding to over 160 countries, hailed as the most significant version update to date. This upgrade introduces several practical use cases:
Integrated with Tinder to provide users with a "Real Person Verification Badge" to enhance authenticity in social connections.
Integrate Zoom to implement anti-deepfake verification, confirming that call participants are real humans.
Launch Concert Kit, a ticketing tool for event ticket authentication and anti-scalping.
Additionally, World is simultaneously launching a standalone World ID app (beta) as a cross-platform identity verification tool and open-sourcing its SDK to allow third-party applications to build their own authentication systems.
On a technical level, this upgrade introduces multi-key management, key rotation, account recovery, and session management mechanisms, and proposes the concept of "Human Continuity," emphasizing continuous verification of the same real individual across multiple interactions, rather than merely verifying devices or accounts.
In terms of ecosystem adoption, Reddit is exploring its use for identifying automated accounts, while Razer and Mythical Games have already integrated this standard into gaming scenarios.
On the business model, World ID will charge applications a fee based on active users, while remaining free for end users. Fees can be settled via on-chain wallets or third-party services and support automated distribution at the protocol layer.