PANews reported on October 18 that the digital identity project Worldcoin, supported by Sam Altman, is being renamed World Network, or World for short. The name change comes as the project also announced that its Layer2 network World Chain is now live on the mainnet. World Chain is a second-layer blockchain network connected to the project and secured by Ethereum. Optimism, Alchemy, Uniswap, Safe, Dune, and Etherscan will support the launch of the blockchain. The blockchain is built using OP Stack, and World Network said that user transactions account for about 44% of OP Mainnet activity, making it the largest application on the network.

“As the project scales and the importance of World ID’s human proof of agreement grows, the name ‘Worldcoin’ no longer captures the project’s mission to accelerate development for everyone,” World wrote in a press release. “With World Chain, World ID, and Worldcoin as its three pillars, World is truly building a network of real, verified humans, aiming to realize an optimistic future in which humans will continue to be at the center of AI advancement.”