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The ‘World App’ for iOS and Android has now been downloaded 4 million times, according to data collected by its development team, Tools for Humanity. Iris-scanning project Worldcoin has reached a new milestone, as its mobile World App has now been downloaded over 4 million times, according to a November 1 blog post from the project’s team. If this number is eventually confirmed by Coingecko, it could place World App in sixth place in Coingecko’s list of most downloaded software wallets. The Worldcoin development team, called “Tools for Humanity,” also claimed that it now has over 1 million monthly users, double the number it had six months ago. World App now has more than 1 million monthly active users, 4 million downloads and 22 million transactions. Not bad for six months pic.twitter.com/pagXxTfc8E — Tools For Humanity (@tfh_technology) November 1, 2023 Worldcoin is a project that allows users to prove their humanness by having their irises scanned. Once the user has their i...

ZK proofs could help online privacy by only revealing relevant user information, solving the internet's “biggest problem,” says Brennen Schlueter. Zero-knowledge proofs could be used to solve the “biggest problem” plaguing the internet today — privacy, according to one cryptocurrency executive. Speaking with Cointelegraph at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) the marketing chief at privacy-focused infrastructure platform Aleo, Brennen Schlueter, said while ZK proofs have become a popular solution to provide blockchains with improved scalability through ZK rollups, they have the potential to reshape the entire internet . ZK proofs enable the transfer of information to take place between two parties in which the originator only needs to reveal relevant information to the receiver. For example, to prove an individual is of age to enter a bar without revealing their actual age or identity to a security guard. Schlueter said the modern internet was not built to prioritize the...