Worldcoin cuts WLD daily unlocks 43% ahead of July 24

Worldcoin will reduce the daily rate at which WLD tokens unlock by 43% on July 24, cutting new emissions from roughly 5.1 million WLD per day to about 2.9 million per day. The company’s published schedule shows unlocks follow a linear timetable with no cliff, and the change takes effect on that date.

The adjustment halves community-linked daily unlocks from 3.2 million to 1.6 million WLD and lowers TFH investor and team daily unlocks from 1.9 million to 1.3 million. The net reduction is about 2.2 million WLD per day, which equals roughly 803 million fewer tokens entering unlock schedules over a year.

Worldcoin reported 4.9 billion WLD had been unlocked as of April 10, representing 49% of the token’s 10 billion total supply. At that time the company reported 3.3 billion WLD in circulation. Market trading data showed about 3.52 billion WLD circulating on July 8. On July 9 the token traded near $0.38, implying a market capitalization close to $1.34 billion and a 24-hour trading volume around $192 million.

In April the project outlined a revenue model for World ID in which applications pay fees while end users remain free. The company described fees ultimately settling in WLD and outlined options for those receipts to be allocated to network operations or to token burns. The project reported that nearly 18 million people have verified their identity at an Orb and that the network spans 160 countries.

Worldcoin cited integrations and pilots intended to expand use beyond crypto-native channels, including work with major collaboration and document platforms and pilots that reference third-party partners and asset-manager-linked testing. The company’s materials present application fee volume, token-settled usage and burns or protocol mechanisms as potential indicators of recurring token demand.

Regulators have taken actions related to Worldcoin’s data processing. Spain’s data protection authority ordered Tools for Humanity to stop collecting and processing personal data in Spain in March 2024, citing complaints about user information, collection of minors’ data and limits on withdrawing consent, and noting that biometric data receives special protection under the GDPR. In February 2026 that regulator warned the company about a planned restart, and the company indicated a temporary postponement of relaunch plans while it reviews the issues. Germany’s Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision concluded an investigation in December 2024 and issued corrective measures requiring a GDPR-compliant deletion procedure to be applied when processing personal data across Europe.

The July 24 adjustment changes the pace of new token unlocks and sets a clear date for the updated drip rate. The company’s published figures and product posts list specific metrics-application fee volume paid in WLD, token-settled usage and token burns-as measures that would register recurring demand in token accounting.