Tools for Humanity, the for-profit company behind Sam Altman’s crypto-driven world network, has updated its “mini apps” with mini apps 1.2. The company is also launching a pilot program of $ 300,000 developer Rewards, tools for humanity that are exclusively shared with Blockworks.
Mini apps version 1.2 makes mini apps faster in the mobile app of the world, adds haptic feedback, makes adjustment possible and allows you to pin your favorite apps at the home screen of your phone without opening the WorldCoin Wallet app, according to the company. Mini apps are also accessible via the search bar on iOS. The app is currently available in 30 countries, including the US.
World now supports more than 150 mini apps, according to data provided to Blockworks. The vast majority of them are from external developers.
Tools for Humanity’s Developer Reward Pilot Program starts on 1 April, allowing developers to earn a $ 300,000 pool from WorldCoin or Wld to develop and update a mini app.
Wld -Price over time, from BlockCworks Research
DEVS can earn up to $ 25,000 a week in Worldcoin if they build a best performing app, Tools for Humanity Chief Product Officer Tiago Sada told Blockworks.
Rewards are distributed on the basis of the number of world-ID-Gereified users who are involved in any mini app.
“Games are popular,” said Sada about what has been trending within the world congregation system. AI apps/assistants, finance -apps, loan apps, airdrop apps, payment -apps with which you can pay with Wld and Esim apps have also won a grip. They can be used with stablecoins or wld, and transactions take place in the world of Ethereum L2, World Chain.
Sada said that many of these mini apps also wages users, in contrast to extracting funds of them. Users will eventually come, but that is not the focus now.
Concepts such as play-to-earn, tap-to-earn and move-to-earn have been a challenge to balance over time, whereby token prices often crash when the earners pay (such as PGX, Notcoin or Stepn’s GMT).
“It was really difficult to have a sustainable system,” said Sada, adding that we now see the turnout instead of apps “who can reward users for actions that are actually valuable, and developers can pay for it because it will not be game.”
For now, the transactions side of things can be a bit tricky because of the App Store rules from Apple and Google. The rules of Apple for Mini apps, for example, state that in-app purchases are required for “digital goods or services to end end users.”
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“All transactions that we support in mini apps go directly to developers.
But he said that transactions such as buying an airline ticket or an ESIM card with a credit card within a mini app would not rise the so-called “Apple Tax” within the World app.
The most important attraction of the world at the moment about Telegram or X/Twitter is that it is easier to say who a bone is and is not. Telegram can also feel a bit overwhelming if you are new in that world, and X is nowadays a sea of politics, memes, bots and chaos.
When I asked Sada for his thoughts about competitors such as Telegram who embrace bots in the app, he said: “I think chatbots and AI are great. You just want to know what is what is.”