The World Foundation noted in a blog post that it has been entrusted with the mission of stewardship of the World Protocol, including its token treasury. As part of that particular role, the World Foundation says that it is responsible for the capitalization of the project in order “to ensure economical funding of the project’s operational and ecosystem needs.”
Where feasible, the project’s expenditures are “settled in WLD, including Orb operator remuneration, ecosystem grants, and growth and integration partnerships.”
The World Foundation claims that it is continually increasing “the proportion of costs settled in WLD relative to fiat-based methods.”
According to the latest update, a meaningful shift in this direction “has come with a batch transfer of 93.7M WLD this week to Tools for Humanity (TFH), one of World’s core contributors, for the completion of several major project milestones across 2025.”
This is reportedly the first WLD settlement for TFH’s services.
The milestones completed include launching Orb operations in several new markets, the completion of the new Orb design (aka Diamond) as well as manufacturing pipeline, “surpassing goals of monthly active verified users (11M verified MAUs), launching the first L3 on World Chain (Mythical Games), and the integration of World ID into Razer’s gaming platform, amongst other notable milestones.”
As covered earlier this month, virtual accounts in the World App, initially piloted in the US, are now reportedly available in more nations such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and across Latin America. World App users are now able to access a new capability: personal virtual account numbers that connect their everyday financial life to the always-on digital economy.
With virtual accounts, enabled by Bridge, users can “receive paychecks directly in World App (without an employer needing to navigate across blockchains or understand network fees), add funds from their bank.”
After the funds are in users’ World Wallet, they can “send or spend the USDC globally.” Every deposit is converted to USDC and ready “to move without borders, banking hours, or fees.”