WLD · nothing is minted, and the supply still grows faster than almost anything we track.
WLD is the token of World, the identity network behind the eye-scanning Orb, and it runs on its own chain alongside Ethereum — 3,617M circulating out of a fixed 10,000M that was made in a single moment in 2023 and can never grow. The cap is settled. Everything that happens from here is the other 6,383M being handed out.
Sell pressure. 370.4M over 90 days — 150.0M released to early investors and the team on a fixed drip, and 220.4M pushed out by the project itself, most of it a 194.4M sale to strategic buyers on Jul 24 2026.
Buy pressure. 44.4M, and only because that share of the sale went straight into new contracts sealed until Jul 24 2027. No buyback exists, and no coin can ever be destroyed.
Net. About 9.01% goes to market over 90 days, and roughly 7.01% next — easing, because the release rate was cut 43% on Jul 24 2026, but still heavy.
- Investor + team drip, now at the lower rate~117.0M unlockedAug 28 2026 – Nov 26 2026 · added to market
- Community lock keeps releasing to the treasury~143.7M releasedAug 28 2026 – Nov 26 2026 · added to market
No WLD has ever been created after the first day. All 10,000M exist already — they were made in one go at launch in 2023 — and the contract read exactly 10,000M at both ends of the 90 days. There is no block reward, no staking payout and no fee mint, and the network's own chain charges its gas in ETH rather than WLD. The one door to more coins opens in July 2038, fifteen years after launch, and even then it is capped at 1.5% a year. Everything else on this page is coins that already existed changing hands.
Early investors and the founding team hold roughly 2,380M WLD, and it is handed to them on a fixed drip, a set amount every day, that began in July 2024. That drip was cut on Jul 24 2026, from 1.9M WLD a day to 1.3M. The window caught 55 days of the old rate and 35 of the new one, which is 150.0M WLD. The next 90 days run entirely at the lower rate, so 117.0M. Worth knowing: these coins count as tradable the day they are handed over, whether or not the holder moves them. The custody contracts holding the still-locked remainder — 929M WLD across eight of them — only paid out 39.1M in the window, so more was released on paper than actually walked out the door.
This is the heavy row, and every coin in it was read off the chain. The project's own foundation released 674.6M WLD from the community lock into its treasury safe on Aug 11 2026, and pushed 220.4M back out over the 90 days. Two things did it. First, 194.4M was sold on Jul 24 2026 to a handful of strategic buyers, in dollar-round lots at about 27 cents each — roughly a 52.5M dollar raise, and each buyer got a one-unit test transfer two days beforehand. Second, 26.1M went out as user grants and ecosystem spending. What is still being watched: the treasury safe now holds 1,398M WLD and grew by 442M over the window, a settlement safe holds 69.7M, the grant wallets hold 113.1M, and 3,500M more sits in community lock contracts on a calendar running to 2038. If any of those balances falls between refreshes, the outflow lands in this row at the next refresh.
There is no bankruptcy estate, no trustee and no court-supervised distribution attached to WLD. Nothing is queued behind this row.
There is no buyback. The project spends no money buying WLD back, and it has never announced a programme that would. It is doing the opposite — selling its own coins to fund the business, which is what the third sell row above measures.
Nothing is destroyed, and there is no way to destroy it. Coins can vanish in two different places, so both were read at both ends of the window. The unspendable dead address holds nothing at all on the main chain, 690 WLD on the project's own chain and a fraction of one coin on the third chain — none of it moved. The total number of WLD in existence sat at exactly 10,000M on both dates as well. The reason is structural rather than a quiet quarter: the project's chain charges its fees in ETH, so WLD is never consumed by using the network. The 10,000M cap is a ceiling and a floor at the same time.
The foundation did not buy WLD on the market, and would have no reason to — it is already sitting on 1,398M of it. Its treasury did grow sharply over the window, by 442M, but that is coins arriving from its own lock contract, not demand.
On Jul 24 2026, 44.4M WLD of the coins sold that day never reached open hands. They went straight into four brand-new lock contracts instead, each one sealed until Jul 24 2027 and each still holding its full balance today. That is real supply taken back out of the market for a year, so it is counted here against the sale it came from rather than quietly subtracted from it. Nothing similar is scheduled for the next 90 days.
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