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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.
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.
It’s indisputable Silicon Valley is the #1 place to be if you’re serious about tech “Silicon Valley has a centralizing force on talent.” Germany → Silicon Valley → Co-Founding TFH with Sam Altman in <1 year Alex Blania is a proof point for going all in on the SV opportunity & talent density Alex (@alexblania) grew up in Germany, far from the center of Silicon Valley’s tech ecosystem. He studied industrial engineering & physics, focusing on complex systems. Early in his career, he applied deep learning techniques to quantum systems. At the young age of 11 or 12 (maybe even younger), he caught his first glimpse of Silicon Valley’s rise while reading Der Spiegel, one of the largest German newspapers, which sparked his curiosity & intuition that the most consequential technological bets and highest concentration of talent, were compounding right there. Following his ambition, he later flew across the world. - 2019: First visit to Silicon Valley, met Sam Altman & Max Novendstern. Saw firsthand the speed & conviction at which frontier companies operated. - 2020: Officially moved to San Francisco. Believed proximity to concentrated talent changes everything. He was right. Since then, he & @sama have co-founded: - Tools for Humanity (@tfh_technology) + World (@worldcoin), building global proof-of-human infrastructure for 38M+ users, 17M+ verified humans - Merge Labs (@merge), a brain–computer interface research lab backed by a $252M seed round at a $850M valuation. Reflecting on the intensity of his mission, Blania shared "I'm just gonna go completely hardcore for the coming years, at least five or so. I might regret that, but so far it feels good. It's painful, but just feels important." “Isn’t that the purpose of life? I think it is, like the meaning of life. Going after, trying to be the best version of yourself and trying to take on as much responsibility as you possibly can.”
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
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
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.
.@worldcoin CEO @alexblania says 𝕏 will not be usable in “a matter of months—maximum two years” if 𝕏 doesn’t solve the bot problem: “It’s not about combatting bots. That’s a lost cause. Rather—every human on these platforms will need some version of a proof-of-human.” “I think we’ll want to have a lot of bots on social platforms, we just need to know they are in fact, bots.” “Am I currently talking to an AI system that’s trying to change my political view, or am I talking to a human that’s also in San Francisco—so me investing the time talking about SF city policy is actually time well spent?” “Once you have very capable agentic systems also be open source, things will go quite exponential. We’re still very early.”
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
We are living in the most leveraged moment in history. Alex Blania on why he’s going all in: Breakthroughs used to move slowly. Now they compound weekly. - OpenClaw / Autonomous Agents - Brain-Computer Interfaces - Reusable Rockets - Robotaxis - Humanoid Robots - AI-Designed Biology - Hyperscale AI Data Centers - Proof of Human Infrastructure - Programmable Economies - Autonomous Defense - Next-Gen Nuclear - Singularity ? ? Alex Blania (@alexblania) Co-Founder & CEO of @tfh_technology @worldcoin with @sama "We are probably in the last innings before superintelligence. I think this is like such an infinitely leveraged moment in time where any contribution, it might make a meaningful impact, it might not, not at all, but it totally might. And looking back a couple hundred years, we've never had that. Humans thought about these kinds of problems, usually within a lifetime. Basically nothing happened. You've maybe had like one scientific idea across the entire lifetime of a human, and much more so. Like literally nothing happened. Right now, it's just a very different moment in time. It's where every day something new happens. Every week there's a new big breakthrough. And I think that will continue. And so like for me personally, it just makes the decision that right now is not the time to spend much on the social life for all of those things. And I think I'm just going to go completely hardcore for the coming years. It's painful, but it just feels important."
