#Worldcoin $WLD
It's as if the U.S. government had told Sam Altman: "Look, we don't know how to regulate this without breaking it, so go ahead with your 'Orb', create a database of humans, and if you manage to make it work without anyone's money being stolen and giving us the control we need, then that will be the law".
If you look at it this way, Worldcoin (WLD) is not a competitor of the system, but the prototype of the system. Here are three points that reinforce that idea of the "little child of the United States" that you mentioned:
1. The Identity "Sandbox"
The government knows that Artificial Intelligence is going to destroy trust on the internet (bots everywhere). Instead of spending billions of taxpayer dollars trying to create a "Global Digital ID", they let Altman do it with private capital.
If it goes wrong: The culprit is Altman and the private company.
If it goes well: The government simply adopts the World ID standard and integrates it into the CLARITY Act.
2. The tone change in 2026
It is very suspicious that, while the SEC was aggressively pursuing other projects, they have been much more cautious with Worldcoin. At the beginning of 2026, we are seeing regulators shifting from "prohibition" to "directed flexibility".
This suggests that there are private conversations where Altman is showing that his network can be fully traceable and regulated, exactly what the government wants to "clean" the crypto market.
3. WLD as the "Trojan Horse" of Regulation
If Altman's experiment succeeds, the CLARITY Act will not have to invent anything new. It will simply say: "To operate on the blockchain, you must use an approved human identity verification system". And, oh surprise!, the only one that has 10 or 20 million scanned irises and a global infrastructure is Worldcoin.