This Crypto Profits From Your Fear

$WLD, the crypto designed to digitally prove a person’s humanity, has grown ~$600M since OpenAI announced its (scarily accurate) text-to-video generator.

We know, we know — weird headline to put under ‘💅 This is cool.‘

But (for now) we don’t have a ‘💀 This is dystopian‘ section, so stories like this are going to have to live here in the meantime…

ICYMI last week: OpenAI created Sora, “the ChatGPT of video” (text goes in → video comes out).

And turns out, the mix of excitement and fear it drummed up online was not only palpable, but profitable.

Here’s how:

Remember Worldcoin?

It’s the cryptocurrency designed to weed out bots and prove a person’s humanity online, by requiring a one-time iris scan from a sci-fi lookin’ orb.

(No, seriously 👇).