World ID: increasing trust for online dating, gaming and event ticketing

You match with someone on a dating app and want to know if the connection is real. You read a comment thread and suspect half the accounts are bots. You try to buy concert tickets and lose to automated scalpers before the page finishes loading. You climb a gaming leaderboard only to discover you were competing against a bot.

These are not edge cases. They are the everyday internet, and they share a common thread: the platforms people rely on for connection, competition, and culture are constantly evolving new ways to confirm that the person on the other end is, in fact, a person.

World is bringing proof of human into the platforms where people spend their time. From dating to live events to gaming, World ID is becoming the trust layer underpinning the experiences that matter most.

Tinder: real connections start with real people

Last year, World and Match Group launched a World ID pilot with Tinder in Japan, providing individuals with a privacy-preserving way to help confirm there is a real human behind the profile. Today, that integration is live globally, bringing World ID’s proof of human to Tinder at scale.

The experience is simple: verify with an Orb once, get a badge and show there's a real, unique person on the other side of the screen on Tinder. That kind of confidence changes how people show up — and when people show up authentically, better connections follow. As World ID expands on Tinder in select markets, including Japan and the United States, Orb-verified humans are eligible to:

1. Stand out with a verified human badge and increase higher-quality connections by showing you’re real, and
2. For a limited time, receive five free Boosts, a paid in-app feature that makes your profile one of the top profiles in your local area.

The partnership with Match Group builds on a growing roster of consumer platforms adopting and exploring proof of human technology. World's partnership with Razer is already establishing Razer ID, verified by World ID, as a standard for proof of human in gaming. Another collaboration with Mythical Games extends that work to player-owned game economies, where the distinction between human and bot is especially consequential. And Reddit recently signaled that it is exploring privacy-first proof of human options, including World ID, for accounts flagged as automated.

Concert Kit: tickets for humans, not bots

Live events are one of the most visible places where dreaded bots cost real fans real money. Concert Kit, a new tool from World that launches today, gives artists the ability to reserve tickets for verified humans, powered by World ID.

Your proof, your privacy

To use your World ID, you simply open World App on your phone. No complicated processes, no additional proof of human verification required. What connects all of these integrations is a shared privacy model. When you use World ID to verify on any of these platforms, the platform receives a cryptographic attestation that you are a real, unique human. That's it. Your name, your location, your activity, your personal details remain entirely yours. No platform in this ecosystem receives personal data from World ID. There is no central database for anyone to breach. Zero-knowledge proofs ensure that the verification is strong and the data footprint is zero.

With World ID and the upcoming release of World ID app, proof of human is becoming something you carry with you across the internet. A single verification that works wherever you need it: on the platforms where you connect, compete, discover, and create. World Network participants span 160 countries. Nearly 18 million people have verified their humanness at an Orb.

Each of these partnerships and integrations extends the places where that proof has value, and each one makes the case that the experiences people care about most are the ones that should be reserved for real people.

From dating to tickets to gaming, the pattern is the same: platforms work better when you know you're dealing with a real human. World ID makes that possible without collecting your personal data. No central database. No identity tracking. Just proof that you're real. That's the foundation for a more trustworthy internet, and it's already here.

Get your free World ID at world.org/find-orb.