Overview

World Chain is a cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure developed as part of the Worldcoin project, which aims to create a global digital currency that is equitable and accessible. The primary goal of World Chain is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the emerging world of cryptocurrencies, offering a seamless platform for users to engage in various financial activities. This infrastructure supports a wide range of services, including payments, remittances, and decentralized applications (dApps).

Explorer

https://worldscan.org/

Wallets Types

BitGo enables holding Worldchain in the following wallet types:

Multisig Cold Multisig Hot MPC Cold MPC Hot
Custody
Self-Custody

Ticker Symbols

Mainnet Testnet
world tworld

Faucet

You can use a faucet to obtain free testnet Worldchain for development and testing purposes.

Faucet: https://www.alchemy.com/faucets/world-chain-sepolia

Units

Each world consists of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) wei, so not even a single world can be stored numerically without exceeding the range of JavaScript numbers. Gas fees use gwei.

  • 1 world = 1018 wei
  • 1 wei = 10-18 world
  • 1 gwei = 10-9 world

For that reason, only string balance properties are available, which are balanceString, confirmedBalanceString, and spendableBalanceString.

Tokens

The Worldchain natively supports ERC20 tokens.

Create Wallet

export BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST="<YOUR_LOCALHOST>"
export COIN="tworld"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
export LABEL="<DESIRED_WALLET_NAME>"
export PASSPHRASE="<YOUR_BITGO_LOGIN_PASSPHRASE>"
export ENTERPRISE_ID="<YOUR_ENTERPRISE_ID>"

curl -X POST \
 http://$BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST/api/v2/$COIN/wallet/generate \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "label": "'"$LABEL"'",
    "passphrase": "'"$PASSPHRASE"'",
    "enterprise": "'"$ENTERPRISE_ID"'",
    "walletVersion": 4
}'

Create Address

export WALLET="585c51a5df8380e0e3082e46"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
https://app.bitgo-test.com/api/v2/tworld/wallet/$WALLET/address

Consolidate Balance

Consolidation Fee Source: Worldchain Gas Tank Worldchain uses forwarders, so it does not support manual consolidation

Estimate Fee

export COIN="tworld"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

curl -X GET \
 https://app.bitgo-test.com/api/v2/$COIN/tx/fee \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN"

Transact

Withdrawal Fee Source: Wallet Base Address

export BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST="<YOUR_LOCALHOST>"
export COIN="tworld"
export WALLET_ID="<YOUR_WALLET_ID>"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
export ADDRESS="<DESTINATION_ADDRESS>"
export AMOUNT="<AMOUNT_IN_BASE_UNITS>"
export WALLET_PASSPHRASE="<YOUR_WALLET_PASSPHRASE>"

curl -X POST \
 http://$BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST/api/v2/$COIN/wallet/$WALLET_ID/sendcoins \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "address": "'"$ADDRESS"'",
    "amount": "'"$AMOUNT"'",
    "walletPassphrase": "'"$WALLET_PASSPHRASE"'"
}'

Stake

Staking is out of scope for these chains as they don’t have native support for them.

See Also