$H just pulled a clean 4x out the gate, hit $124M FDV, and now it’s catching attention for fixing digital identity with palm scans and zk proofs, and in the euphoric can’t fade the meta phase. Solid idea.
Sound familiar?
$WLD launched with the same bold pitch to verify the world, kill the bots, and build a new financial rail around real humans.
It pumped 10x in months then spent its time round-tripping into a slow bleed.
So why the déjà vu?
Technically, both ride the same identity thesis: proof of personhood, Sybil resistance, UBI rails, anti-AI spam. But their flavors differ.
🔹 $WLD scans irises, stores nothing, but relies on a hardware Orb empire
🔹 $H scans palms, starts with mobile selfies, and moves to palm vein with zk shards
🔸 $WLD builds on Optimism & Ethereum, now launching World Chain
🔸 $H builds its own zkEVM L2 with Proof-of-Humanity as consensus
▫️ $WLD is about world-scale UBI, real-world deployments, and ambition
▫️ $H feels like a crypto native response. Same mission, cleaner UX, less eyeballs.
→ Worldcoin had the hype, the Orb, Altman, even pseudo-UBI energy.
But it also had the same problem that $H now faces, which is building a narrative before there was demand.
There’s no recurring use case outside of airdrops, governance, or being early.
#Humanity Protocol is more privacy-preserving, more open, more web3-native.
No Orbs, just palm scans from your phone. That’s a clear UX win.
And their Proof-of-Humanity consensus model is novel, tying real people to the chain’s security layer.
But that same model needs millions of real humans to keep working.
The network is sybil-resistant but still untested at scale.
No one's fighting to pay gas in $H yet, dApps aren’t queuing to integrate.
I’m not bearish on the tech. Both $H and $WLD are trying to solve a real problem, distinguishing real humans from AI noise.
But I am bearish on timing. Identity is a slow game.
✨ Is $H the next $WLD?
Maybe. In the best way and the worst. A huge vision, big unlocks, big expectations followed by the long, quiet work of building real usage.
Problem is, $WLD proved what happens when price > usage. 10x → fade → 90% downtrend.
It’s early. But don’t confuse a hype cycle for product-market fit.