Worldcoin Launches Token and Payments Processor Alphapo is Hacked
Jul 24, 2023
Market Update After weeks of choppy price action, crypto markets fell this morning, with Bitcoin dropping 3.18% and $ETH dropping 2.26%. Higher beta altcoins were hit harder - $ARB, $SOL, and $OP declined 5.50%, 5.82%, and 4.43, respectively. Despite poor performance from most mid-cap altcoins, on-chain activity on Ethereum has remained relatively high, with many on-chain coins such as $UNIBOT, rising significantly, perhaps pulling liquidity away from the altcoins listed on centralized exchanges. Interestingly enough, an exception to the marketwide decline was $DOGE, which is up 3.60% today after Elon Musk changed Twitter's name to "X" on the website and put the Dogecoin logo in his bio, leading to speculation that he may integrate $DOGE could to the site. Traditional markets are up slightly, SPX has risen 0.39%, and NDQ has risen 0.02%. The dollar (DXY) continues its bounce from last week - up 0.18%. Worldcoin, the crypto project led by Sam Altman, co-founder of Open AI, has successfully launched its $WLD token and Mainnet today. The launch was announced on Twitter by the Worldcoin Team. Altman describes Worldcoin as a protocol intended to be the world's largest identity and financial public network, open to everyone regardless of background. Worldcoin was founded three y