Daniel Shorr

building @worldnetwork. prev @countablemagic, @stanford

[Daniel Shorr @realDanielShorr]

https://t.co/B6ZvJ5jOuI

[Arjun Narayan @narayanarjun]

SpaceX drops the hypiest IPO filing and says "we believe we have identified the largest TAM in human history", and you're like, my interplanetary east India company, what delectable spice have you decided to ship across the stars, and it's like... 22 trillion dollars of b2b saas

[World @worldnetwork]

The agentic web needs a human layer.

As agents increasingly act on behalf of real people, it's crucial to know that a verified human stands behind them. World ID and AgentKit provide the infrastructure to make human-backed AI provable at scale.

[Daniel Shorr @realDanielShorr]

https://t.co/8byYwNDZN5

[World @worldnetwork]

Selfie? Check.

@realDanielShorr breaks down the newest feature of the Proof of Human stack.

[World @worldnetwork]

“Humans should have a right to exceptional privacy and security, and our tools must measure up without compromising on the powerful features our users expect.” – @realDanielShorr at last week’s Lift Off

Read our blog to learn more about World ID 4.0

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder. https://t.co/XvXletnj1m

[a16z @a16z]

a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, co-founder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, to cover deepfakes, proof of human, what AI means for identity, and more.

They cover the technical challenge of proving human uniqueness at scale using iris biometrics, the privacy architecture behind World ID, why platforms from social networks to dating apps to video conferencing will soon require proof of human verification, and more.

Introduction
Three big ideas people were interested in
The Orb verification piece
Social media bots: Psyops and propaganda
We had proof of personhood for the longest time
US go-to-market
Levels of verification

@alexblania @tfh_technology @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

[Alex Blania @alexblania]

Great conversation with @bhorowitz and @eriktorenberg!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It’s time for Proof Of Human.

[Alex Blania @alexblania]

Agentic capability is improving fast. We believe Proof of Human is becoming critical for the internet and many of the platforms we use (like X).

This paper explains why FaceID, face biometrics & government IDs won’t solve the problem, and what properties are most important.

[Sandro Herbig @sandroherbig]

1/ Proof of Human is becoming increasingly critical. In the limit democracy and human agency depend on it.

But building Proof of Human is unexpectedly challenging.

FaceID doesn't prevent one person to fabricate human presence for thousands of AI agents.

Government ID based Proof of Human is a surveillance risk and only 1b out of 8 billion people have verifiable IDs.

An anti-surveillance and effective Proof of Human that actually empowers people requires new technology [paper linked in thread] 🧵

[World @worldnetwork]

Join us on April 17th for Lift Off, a live World ID launch event in San Francisco. Hosted by Alex and Sam. With special guests.

[World @worldnetwork]

As millions of agents start to come online, the internet needs to distinguish bot armies from the agents acting on behalf of humans.

Introducing AgentKit, the human layer for agentic automation. Built on World ID, the AgentKit beta unlocks human-verified automation, a new primitive for the agent economy.

[Ben Nowack ☀️🌎🪞 @bennbuilds]

Built a space mirror, launching soon

[Daniel Shorr @realDanielShorr]

@reldev @nayr_oac thank you, steven!! couldn't have done it without you!!

[World @worldnetwork]

Open-sourcing our advanced ZKML library brings verifiable, on-device machine learning closer to widespread adoption.

[Daniel Shorr @realDanielShorr]

@dcbuilder @nayr_oac what a journey! feel so lucky to have gotten to meet such lovely, talented people and we're just getting started :)

[World Chain @world_chain_]

Announcing Remainder: World’s GKR prover for machine learning is now open-source

Our cryptography and zero-knowledge proof system, now enables users to run ML models on their own device and generate cryptographic proofs for each correct execution.

This unlocks powerful use cases, like local World ID upgrades that eliminate Orb revisits, further strengthening privacy, security, and trust.

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: Inside Sam Altman's "Proof of Human" Company 'Tools for Humanity'

CEO & Co-Founder, Alex Blania

As agents like OpenClaw explode, OpenAI calls the future “extremely multi-agent”

If bots can act human at scale, humanity becomes the ultimate infrastructure.

We unpack:
• 38M+ users, 17M+ verified humans
• Why “combating bots is a lost cause”
• Why platforms will need proof-of-human
• 99%+ of internet traffic could be AI
• The “last innings before superintelligence”
• Why platforms like X may not be usable very soon

+ we dive into Merge Labs, @alexblania & Sam's latest co-founding, a BCI research lab with $252M in seed funding at a $850M valuation

This is the most in-depth look at @worldcoin, @merge, & the breakthrough entrepreneur hand picked by @sama to lead Tools for Humanity

Highlights:
(00:00) Alex Blania
(01:27) World Explained: ID, Chain, App — The Full Stack
(04:47) World Card, Stablecoins & Encrypted World Chat
(08:22) 37M Users, 17M Verified
(11:02) “Fail-Safe Privacy” — Why This Can’t Break
(12:18) Where Proof of Human Actually Wins: Social, Dating, Gaming
(14:04) Stop Fighting Bots
(16:49) How Alex Met Sam Altman
(22:25) Operating with Sam While Building Two Companies
(24:39) Inside Merge Labs — Why It Took 18 Months
(24:58) “Last Innings Before Superintelligence”
(32:38) Launching Merge Labs — $252M Seed Round
(34:01) OpenAI Funding + Support
(37:30) Brain–Computer Interfaces 101 — Why Bandwidth Matters
(42:14) Mind Control? Privacy? The Real BCI Misconceptions

[Alex Blania @alexblania]

Great conversation with @MollySoShea :)

Proof of Human is about to become critical infrastructure; the last couple of weeks have made clear both why and how. OpenClaw is only the first glimpse of how the internet is about to change in the coming months.