After the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin was officially launched on July 24, it has received a lot of attention from the community. According to Dune data , the total number of WorldApp wallets has exceeded 1 million, and the number of $WLD that has been claimed has exceeded 8.5 million. Each claimant has received an average token value of US$57.84.
However, for users in Taiwan, it is a pity that Orb iris scanners are not yet available. The nearest location is in Hong Kong, so DongZone will fly readers to Hong Kong today to explain to you how to scan the iris scanner and apply for it. Token details.
If you have not yet registered a WorldApp account, you can refer to " Worldcoin World Coin Receiving Full Tutorial: How to register an account, scan iris, and apply for WLD airdrops?
Go to Hong Kong Orb Scan Point
At present, there are a total of three locations in Hong Kong with Orb iris scanners. We went to the flagship store at No. 66 Shanghai Street, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong , which is diagonally opposite Jordan Temple Street, the most famous night market in Hong Kong.
The other two Orb scanning points in Hong Kong are located in Tower 3 of Cyberport and Wanzhaofeng Centre.
The author arrived at the evening of last weekend in Taiwan time. There were two Orb iris scanners installed at the scene, and two staff members were there to assist in the operation. Unexpectedly, there were not as many people queuing up as expected; even Without using WorldApp to make an online reservation, the on-site queuing will actually not take too much time.
1. How to perform iris authentication?
(1) After coming to the Orb iris authentication machine, first click "Verify with an Orb" on the WorldApp homepage
(2) Then click "Verify now" > "Get a new World ID" > agree to the terms of use
(3) Then use the QRcode generated by the App, and turn the screen of the mobile phone to the Orb to scan the lens. After a while, you can squat down slightly, align your eyes with the Orb lens scanner, and start the iris scan.
You need to take off your glasses during the process, and the whole process will be completed in about tens of seconds. A green ring will appear on the Orb, and it will be successfully completed after the ring is filled. The staff in the flagship store will assist you throughout the process, and you can ask any questions.
2. How to apply for WLD?
(1) After the verification is successful, you will see your World ID change from gray to black on the home page, and the center ball shows a green symbol.
(2) Then you can click the "$" symbol in the lower left corner to claim (Claim now). Our measured members received a total of 25 Genesis Grants + 1 Welcome Grant. (The system sets a 2-hour countdown lock when receiving the Genesis Grant).
According to the official statement, registrants who have scanned their irises can receive 1 WLD every week as a Genesis Grant reward, which is expected to be airdropped every month in 2023.
3. How to trade WLD?
(1) In the WorldApp wallet, you can see how much WLD balance you have at the bottom, and the dollar value in the current market at the top. Click Withdraw in the center of the screen to withdraw, and you can choose a different blockchain.
(2) Let’s take the Binance Exchange as an example. Open the Binance APP, go to the home page > store value > search for WLD, and you will be able to enter the store value page, select the public chain you want to use (OP’s gas fee is cheaper) and copy the coin The wallet address given by Ann.
(3) Go back to WorldApp, fill in the number of WLD to be sent, paste it into the Binance address, and click OK.
(4) In the Binance spot trading market, you can choose WLD /BTC, WLD /USDT.. and other markets to sell WLD into other types of tokens. Binance’s flash swap function also includes the WLD option.
Feel after experiencing Orb
This time, the team of the dynamic zone went to Hong Kong to experience the actual operation of Worldcoin’s Orb. It felt very smooth , and the store was not as overcrowded as imagined. The queuing time was less than 5 minutes. It is speculated that the Worldcoin project may have caused some communities to question “selling irises” "There will be a danger of data leakage or misuse, and there is no crowd of people queuing up to scan and make money.
Just for the process of scanning the eyes, which was quick and didn't encounter any problems, it should give the Orb a pretty high score.
Other than that, there are still a few curious parts.
There are four lenses on the Orb iris scanner, which are the telephoto infrared main lens, the infrared close-up lens, the infrared wide-angle lens and the visual spectrum lens. Logically, it can shoot images of several wavelengths to achieve time-of-flight 3D imaging. Captures the user's complete iris shape. But when using the Orb to scan the eyeball, it will give users a feeling that they don't know whether the lens will capture their facial features.
In addition, Worldcoin currently releases a relatively small number of public Orb placement locations around the world, but as many as 450,000 testers have scanned irises in poor countries in the early days, and the number of Orbs used must be far more than the current public. At present, Worldcoin There is also no clear pipeline for Orb application and installation. Where are the Orbs that were previously used officially?
