Worldcoin's WLD Liquidity Escape: $65M in Tokens Flee Via OTC While Price Takes a Nasty Spill

Worldcoin's parent organization, World Foundation, just confirmed what nobody wanted to hear—theirWorld Assets subsidiary quietly shuffled approximately $65 million worth of $WLD tokens out the back door via over-the-counter deals with four lucky counterparties over the past week. The token evacuation amounted to around 239 million $WLD, sold at what the filing coyly calls "the disclosed average price." No word on whether those counterparties got a bulk discount for their silence.

Of that $65 million liquidation, a suspiciously generous $25 million worth of tokens got handcuffed to a six-month vesting schedule—presumably so buyers don't immediately flip their new bags like panic sellers at a memecoin launch. The first settlement hit wallets on March 20, 2026, with the rest flowing out from a dedicated World Assets multisig wallet like water through a leaky faucet. The proceeds allegedly fund core operations, R&D, manufacturing of those gloriously expensive iris-scanning Orb devices (each one probably costs more than a Lambo), and ecosystem expansion.

For those keeping score at home, blockchain sleuths at Lookonchain previously caught Worldcoin moving 117 million $WLD tokens worth $39 million through similar OTC exits. Currently, $WLD is taking its medicine at roughly $0.27, nursing a 13.5% wound over the past week. The token's glory days saw it photobombing price charts at $11.70 back in March 2024—a distant memory like your portfolio from 2021.

Tom Lee's Eightco Holdings continues its reign as the largest publicly traded $WLD bag holder, clutching 277 million tokens as of March 20 like a dragon hoarding digital gold. For the uninitiated, Worldcoin was hatched in 2019 by Sam Altman, Alex Blania, and Max Novendstern—dreaming big about biometric identity verification meets crypto for a global proof-of-personhood utopia. The ecosystem encompasses Orb-based World ID verification, the beloved $WLD token