A World of Human Possibilities

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Tools and Humanity shows concrete primitives: World ID proves a unique human with zero‑knowledge and three credential tiers (Orb iris scan, passport, face); the network hits 38 million World App installs, 18 million verified humans and ~7.5 million active users while bots claim ~45–50% of traffic. Agent Kit maps humans to agents so agents act with human‑in‑loop approvals (e.g., trades over $1,000), supports Shopify commerce and an x402 challenge flow that verifies agent signatures against the agent book. Proof Kit is a Rust‑like DSL for Noir enabling client‑side, post‑quantum ZK proving.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:11Meet Mateo and Tools for Humanity
3. 0:55Proving a Human Is Behind the Interaction
4. 1:17Why Bots Are Half of Internet Traffic
5. 2:13Entering Phase Three of the Project
6. 2:53Becoming the Biggest Human Financial Network
7. 3:19World App by the Numbers
8. 3:45The Mini Kit SDK and Mini Apps
9. 4:08Enterprises Building on World
10. 4:54The Star Product: World ID
11. 5:23Proving You Are a Unique Human
12. 6:01The Three Credential Tiers
13. 6:33Why the Orb Is the Most Reliable
14. 7:15Integrating ID Kit
15. 7:55Introducing Agent Kit
16. 8:19Why a Wallet Cannot Tell If a Human Is Behind It
17. 8:49Mapping Humans to Agents in the Agent Book
18. 9:17Capability One: Acting for a Human
19. 9:42Agentic Commerce With Shopify
20. 10:22The x402 Challenge Flow
21. 11:29Why Every Agent Ties Back to One Human
22. 11:51The Three Access Modes
23. 12:36The Tool Router Integrations
24. 13:20Introducing Proof Kit and Noir
25. 13:46Client-Side, Post-Quantum ZK Proving
26. 14:48Why This May Power World ID's Future
27. 15:15Case Study: The Shopify Hat
28. 16:12Case Study: credit.cash
29. 17:43Case Study: Morpho and Increased Yield
30. 18:22Case Study: Tinder Boosts
31. 19:08Go and Build: The Four Tracks
32. 20:12Why Projects Should Outlast the Weekend
33. 20:30Resources and QR Code
34. 20:50Q&A: Cross-Referencing and Privacy
35. 22:18Why Each Website Is Isolated
36. 23:05Q&A: Can You Verify Who Someone Is
37. 23:46Q&A: Preventing Duplicate Verification
38. 24:46Q&A: Post-Quantum in Noir Circuits
39. 25:11Closing