
In this Itwelt interview, KOBIL founder İsmet Koyun assesses Sam Altman's World project — which offers iris scans in exchange for a "World ID" tied to a wallet, cryptocurrency, and social network — and argues it solves the wrong problem. He credits World's ambition to build unified digital identity but rejects its execution: identity managed by a single private company, tied to a cryptocurrency incentive, using biometric data that can't be changed if compromised.