In brief
- Grayscale has filed with the SEC to launch the first U.S. ETF tied to Worldcoin, the biometric crypto project co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
- The Grayscale Worldcoin ETF would hold WLD and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD, with BitGo as custodian and BNY Mellon as transfer agent.
- WLD rose around 8% on the news, though it remains down about 5.5% on the week.
Worldcoin’s WLD token jumped after asset manager Grayscale filed to launch the first US exchange-traded fund tied to the biometric crypto project, moving to bring Sam Altman’s eye-scanning venture a step closer to Wall Street.
WLD climbed about 8% over 24 hours following the filing to an intraday high of $0.387, trimming a rough week that still left it down around…
