The Orb Will See You Now

Since 2019, the project has raised 244 million from investors like Coinbase and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. That money paid for the 50 million cost of designing the Orb, plus maintaining the software it runs on. The total market value of all Worldcoins in existence, however, is far higher--around 1.2 billion. That number is a bit misleading: most of those coins are not in circulation and Worldcoin's price has fluctuated wildly. Still, it allows the company to reward users for signing up at no cost to itself.