Worldcoin (WLD) Steadies at $0.38 as Altman Floats US Government AI Stake

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Worldcoin (WLD) traded near $0.38 on July 2 as its co-founder, Sam Altman, moved to the center of an unprecedented push to hand Washington direct equity in America's largest artificial-intelligence firms. Altman's OpenAI has proposed that the US government take a 5% stake in the company, a holding worth roughly $42.6 billion against OpenAI's latest $852 billion valuation. The pitch frames public ownership as the cleanest way to share AI's upside with citizens. For holders of the WLD altcoin, trading far below its all-time high, the proposal matters because Altman's dual role links the token's identity-verification network — whose units were first spread through a wide airdrop — directly to the policy fortunes of the Worldcoin ecosystem he helped build.

The mechanism under discussion borrows explicitly from the Alaska Permanent Fund, the state vehicle created in 1976 that channels oil revenue into investments and pays residents an annual dividend. Under the concept, leading AI developers would place about 5% of their equity into a comparable public wealth fund, distributing returns to American citizens rather than concentrating gains among a handful of investors. Altman has floated the idea since 2025 and escalated it this spring, reportedly briefing President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Senator Bernie Sanders. The cross-party outreach signals an attempt to defuse both Republican and Democratic unease over AI wealth concentration.

Crucially, the proposal is not confined to OpenAI. The blueprint envisions the White House holding roughly 5% of each major US AI developer through a single government investment vehicle, potentially sweeping in Anthropic, Google, and Meta. Trump is expected to meet those companies alongside SpaceX next week to weigh the arrangement, though no firm has signed anything and it remains a one-sided offer. A sovereign-wealth-fund structure could house the combined stakes. Anthropic has separately promoted a rival “digital dividend” idea that would tax AI profits and redistribute the proceeds, underscoring how quickly equity-for-citizens frameworks are becoming the industry's shared political vocabulary.

The plan extends a pattern the administration has already road-tested with direct equity purchases. Last August, the government paid $8.9 billion for common stock representing about 10% of chipmaker Intel, and Trump later said he should have demanded a larger slice. Washington has also taken positions in IBM and in several quantum-computing and critical-minerals ventures, with the president describing state ownership as making Americans “partners” in the technology revolution. That precedent gives the AI proposal a template, but it also raises the stakes: converting regulatory oversight into shareholder alignment reshapes how the government polices the firms it now co-owns.

Security anxieties are driving the timing. Washington has grown wary of cybersecurity flaws in frontier models just as Chinese open-source systems approach top US capabilities at far lower cost. OpenAI recently delayed the full public rollout of its GPT-5.6 model at the government's request, while Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were briefly frozen under Commerce Department export controls before access was restored on July 1. Against that backdrop, some operators view an equity stake as a route to policy flexibility rather than pure regulation. The same national-security logic that shields chatbots increasingly touches identity networks like Worldcoin that anchor human verification.

The capital-supply side is tightening in parallel. Nvidia unveiled a model that ties it directly to smaller AI-infrastructure operators such as Sharon AI and Firmus through revenue-sharing and credit support, effectively bankrolling downstream buyers so they can keep purchasing chips and expanding data centers. Analysts read the combined moves — government equity plus vendor financing — as validation of the “sovereign build-out” thesis, in which states and corporations underwrite AI infrastructure as strategic assets. Abu Dhabi's $49 billion MGX fund, which counts both OpenAI and Anthropic among its targets, illustrates how deep sovereign capital is already flowing into the sector.

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