Live from Zoomtopia: “Our partners offer additional layers of security that can work in the background of your meetings, like @world_id for Zoom, which uses hardware-backed biometric checks to give Zoom participants a verified human badge.” — Russell Dicker, CPO at @Zoom

Building a trust layer for the Internet requires both network resilience and Proof of Human. Excited to welcome @worldnetwork as our Marquee Partner for #CloudflareConnect# in SF, Oct 19–21! Let’s build what’s next, together.

In 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup transferred $25.6 million after joining a video call where every other participant was a deepfake. Since then, AI has advanced significantly and is making impersonation increasingly convincing, causing challenges for financial institutions in particular. As autonomous agents begin handling more financial activity on behalf of people, establishing an added layer of trust and security behind a transaction or sensitive conversation is becoming an urgent need. Introducing @world_id for banking and finance, a suite of technologies that helps institutions establish trust through privacy-preserving cryptographic Proofs. World ID for Zoom lets meeting participants confirm they are the same Orb-verified human connected to their account, while World ID for agents allows AI agents to carry Proofs delegated by people. Bain Capital, OpenExchange, Outtake, Pantera Capital, and VanEck Funds are initial design partners, bringing World ID into some of finance's most consequential interactions.

Trust is becoming the internet's scarcest resource and most valuable commodity. We hope to see you at @money2020 where World and @tfh_technology co-founder @alexblania will discuss human infrastructure for the age of AI.

Online trust still runs on a broken binary built around anonymity vs. identity. Proof of human preserves privacy while adding trust to online interactions. Via @hackernoon: