Crypto
Pantera Capital Leads $52.5 Million WLD Token Raise Amid AI Identity Boom
World Foundation raised $52.5 million in a locked sale of its WLD token on July 24, 2026, led by Pantera Capital.
The funds will be used to expand World ID verification tools for businesses, individual users and artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
The sale involved about 217 million WLD tokens near $0.24 a token, a discount to the market price of roughly $0.37 at the time, according to onchain data.
Cosmo Jiang, General Partner at Pantera Capital, tied the investment to the rise of AI, saying 'the need for proof of human verification is becoming clear as enterprise adoption grows around the technology'.