The Worldcoin project, co-founded by Open AI CEO Sam Altman, plans to launch an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain that prioritizes authenticated humans over robots, CryptoPotato reported. Worldcoin currently has more than 10 million users, 50% of whom have verified their human identity using the project's Orb. In a blog announcement on April 17, Worldcoin introduced its new human-centric blockchain, called World Chain, which will be built on Optimism's Superchain. Worldcoin is the largest protocol on Optimism, an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution that accounts for 44% of user transactions on the network, sometimes even more than 80% at peak times. The Worldcoin Foundation aims to prioritize human transactions on the World Chain network, an area that is mainly controlled by robots. Worldcoin hopes to solve this problem by focusing on users who verify their identities with World ID, which will allow them to get free gas quotas and "faster confirmation times" than robots. In addition, Ether (ETH) will serve as the native token of World Chain, but verified users can use Worldcoin (WLD) tokens to pay fees when claiming their token grants. The launch of World Chain is planned for this summer, and developer previews are expected to happen soon. However, Worldcoin still faces regulatory hurdles in different countries, and potential privacy violations have attracted the attention of data protection regulators.