The World Foundation, the entity behind Sam Altman-linked Worldcoin, has sold roughly 239 million WLD tokens in an over-the-counter transaction worth about $65 million—pricing the deal near the token’s recent lows.
Details in circulation suggest the blocks were placed with four institutional counter-parties and settled via World Assets, Ltd., with execution beginning around March 20. The average price cited for the sale was roughly $0.27 per WLD, only slightly above the trough levels WLD printed earlier in March, 2026.
A Steep WLD Discount, Structured To Limit Instant Market Shock
The headline number is not just the size of the sale, but the gap to history: the implied price is far below WLD’s March 2024 peak near $11.82. That kind of draw-down makes the transaction look more like operational financing than opportunistic re-balancing—raising cash while the market is weak.
The sale was structured as a private OTC placement rather than open-market selling, which typically reduces direct order-book pressure but can come with negotiated pricing. About $25 million of the proceeds—around 38% of the total—was reportedly tied to a six-month lock-up, a partial guardrail against immediate resale by buyers.
Not all of the purchased tokens appear to be restricted, however, meaning some portion of the block could still reach exchanges quickly if counter-parties choose to de-risk.
WLD Token Supply Overhang: Still a Big Part Of The Story
Beyond near-term price action, WLD’s supply schedule continues to loom over sentiment. Circulating supply has been cited around 3.1 billion tokens out of a 10 billion total, with unlocks and vesting extending into mid-2028 and large allocations for team and early backers released over years. One of the biggest remaining cliff unlocks comes on 23 July 2026.
According to DefiLlama’s vesting schedule, beyond 52% of Worldcoin’s (WLD) total token supply are yet to be poured into the markets, likely stirring an immediate or delayed price reaction.
That dynamic—combined with the need to fund hardware-heavy ambitions like Orb devices and ongoing R&D—helps explain why a foundation might accept depressed pricing to secure runway.
The moral of the story is a reminder that tokenomics can matter as much as product narratives: even OTC sales can reshape the supply-demand balance, especially when executed near cycle lows and against a long unlock calendar.
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