据称 Lido 联合创始人正在密谋与 Sam Altman 的世界网络竞争

新的数字身份平台Y放弃了世界网络有争议的生物特征认证，转而采用基于用户在线活动的系统。

Crypto veterans, including the co-founders of decentralized finance (DeFi) juggernaut Lido (CRYPTO: LDO), are preparing to launch "Y," a blockchain identity platform aimed squarely at competing with World Network, formerly known as Worldcoin.

加密货币资深人士，包括去中心化金融（DeFi）巨头 Lido（CRYPTO：LDO）的联合创始人，正准备推出“Y”，一个区块链身份平台，旨在与 World Network（以前称为 Worldcoin）竞争。

CoinDesk obtained an internal planning document for the new project, and a person close to Cyber Fund, the venture firm led by Lido co-founders Konstantin Lomashuk and Vasiliy Shapovalov, confirmed the document is genuine. It lays out a vision for a new blockchain-based identity platform that skips World's controversial eyeball-scanning Orb.

CoinDesk 获得了新项目的内部规划文件，一位与由 Lido 联合创始人 Konstantin Lomashuk 和 Vasiliy Shapovalov 领导的风险投资公司 Cyber​​ Fund 关系密切的人士证实该文件是真实的。它提出了一个基于区块链的新身份平台的愿景，该平台跳过了世界上有争议的眼球扫描 Orb。

Cyber Fund declined to comment. Ekram Ahmed, the head of marketing and communications for the blockchain infrastructure project Celestia, told CoinDesk he was also joining Y as an advisor. The upcoming project is not otherwise connected to Celestia, Ahmed said.

网络基金拒绝置评。区块链基础设施项目 Celestia 的营销和传播主管 Ekram Ahmed 告诉 CoinDesk，他也将以顾问的身份加入 Y。艾哈迈德说，即将推出的项目与 Celestia 没有其他联系。

The document, titled "Y vs. WorldCoin," describes how Y plans to play up World Network’s controversies — from privacy concerns, to accusations of exploitative user recruitment practices, to a generalized phobia of the project's metallic iris-scanning orb — as it courts users.

这份题为“Y vs. WorldCoin”的文件描述了 Y 计划如何渲染世界网络的争议——从隐私问题到剥削性用户招募行为的指控，再到对该项目的金属虹膜扫描球的普遍恐惧症——因为它正在寻求用户。

Rather than biometric data, Y will look at the traces people leave behind while using the internet to verify they are human. This method, according to the Y planning document, addresses privacy risks and minimizes fraud — in sharp contrast to World’s reliance on iris scans.

Y 将查看人们在使用互联网时留下的痕迹来验证他们是人类，而不是生物识别数据。根据 Y 规划文件，这种方法可以解决隐私风险并最大限度地减少欺诈，这与 World 对虹膜扫描的依赖形成鲜明对比。

Over time, Y's creators apparently intend to build a "Crypto SuperApp that allows users to privately build and earn from their digital identity." The vision isn't far off from that of World Network, whose product suite includes an identity-centric blockchain, crypto wallet and app ecosystem.

随着时间的推移，Y 的创建者显然打算构建一个“加密超级应用程序，允许用户私下构建并从其数字身份中获利”。这一愿景与 World Network 的愿景相距不远，其产品套件包括以身份为中心的区块链、加密钱包和应用程序生态系统。

The Y document is scarce on implementation details, focusing instead on how Y will be marketed as a "direct competitor to WorldCoin" – a strategy explicitly designed to "attract maximum attention."

Y 文件很少提及实施细节，而是重点关注 Y 将如何作为“世界币的直接竞争对手”进行营销——这一战略明确旨在“吸引最大程度的关注”。

Like World, Y will ostensibly help internet users identify themselves as humans, which is expected to become increasingly important as AI tools and AI-generated content fool legacy identity solutions.

与 World 一样，Y 表面上将帮助互联网用户识别自己的人类身份，随着人工智能工具和人工智能生成的内容愚弄传统身份解决方案，这一点预计将变得越来越重要。

The key difference between the two platforms will be how they authenticate users.

这两个平台之间的主要区别在于它们如何验证用户身份。

Whereas World assigns users "World IDs" using biometric data – those creepy iris scans – Y "aggregates data from users’ existing socials and blockchain activity, and also employs the Ethereum Attestation Service" to verify users. The Ethereum Attestation Service is a set of tools people can use to formally "attest" to the accuracy of certain data, which can be useful for applications like user authentication.

World 使用生物识别数据（那些令人毛骨悚然的虹膜扫描）为用户分配“世界 ID”，而 Y“聚合来自用户现有社交和区块链活动的数据，并使用以太坊证明服务”来验证用户。以太坊证明服务是人们可以用来正式“证明”某些数据的准确性的一组工具，这对于用户身份验证等应用程序非常有用。

According to the authors of the planning document reviewed by CoinDesk, Y's authentication processes are designed to address some of WorldCoin's shortcomings, such as "eliminating risks related to biometric data leaks and minimizing opportunities for fraud."

根据 CoinDesk 审查的规划文件的作者的说法，Y 的身份验证流程旨在解决 WorldCoin 的一些缺点，例如“消除与生物特征数据泄露相关的风险并最大限度地减少欺诈机会”。

Y's "social-graph-based" approach is also meant to provide a more "nuanced numerical score" to determine a user's "personhood" compared to World's Orb, which delivers a simple binary reading on whether or not a person is human.

与 World 的 Orb 相比，Y 的“基于社交图”的方法还旨在提供更“细致入微的数字分数”来确定用户的“人格”，World 的 Orb 提供简单的二进制读数来判断一个人是否是人类。

According to the planning document reviewed by CoinDesk, Y's marketing will focus on World Network's "controversial aspects."

根据 CoinDesk 审查的规划文件，Y 的营销将集中在 World Network 的“有争议的方面”。

Chief among the project's controversies has been its reliance on biometric data. World maintains that it securely encrypts iris scans, but as the authors of the Y document note, the service has nonetheless "sparked serious privacy concerns, resulting in bans in countries like Spain and Kenya."

该项目的主要争议在于其对生物识别数据的依赖。 World 坚称它可以安全地加密虹膜扫描，但正如 Y 文件的作者指出的那样，该服务仍然“引发了严重的隐私问题，导致西班牙和肯尼亚等国家被禁止”。

World has also led to the proliferation of black markets, where users can buy and sell scans to create fake accounts. Moreover, its reliance on centralized hardware and connections to OpenAI have sparked concern among some decentralization-minded crypto natives.

World 还导致了黑市的激增，用户可以在其中买卖扫描来创建虚假帐户。此外，它对中心化硬件的依赖以及与 OpenAI 的连接引发了一些具有去中心化思想的加密货币原生者的担忧。

If Y intends to compete head-on with World, it will need to make up a lot of ground in terms of user numbers. World launched in 2023 and has since onboarded more than 15 million users, according to numbers released last month by the project. Seven million of those users have reportedly been authenticated by World's Orb, with the rest opting for a lower-tier World ID that doesn't require eyeball scanning.

如果Y想要与World正面竞争，就需要在用户数量上抢占先机。根据该项目上个月发布的数据，World 于 2023 年推出，迄今已拥有超过 1500 万用户。据报道，其中 700 万用户已通过 World's Orb 进行身份验证，其余用户则选择不需要眼球扫描的较低级别的 World ID。

Lido is the largest decentralized finance app on Ethereum, with more than $26 billion in "staked" deposits from investors who "stake" ETH with the platform to help power Ethereum's security.

Lido 是以太坊上最大的去中心化金融应用程序，拥有超过 260 亿美元的“质押”存款，投资者通过该平台“质押”ETH，以帮助增强以太坊的安全性。

In addition to leveraging their clout among crypto netizens to promote Y, Lido's founders are likely to seize on World's connections to OpenAI in their bid to attract users.

除了利用他们在加密货币网民中的影响力来推广 Y 之外，Lido 的创始人还可能利用 World 与 OpenAI 的联系来吸引用户。

"With Sam Altman, co-founder of both WorldCoin and OpenAI, we have a real possibility that WorldCoin may follow the same path as OpenAI," the Y document states, noting that "OpenAI started as an open-source, non-profit project, but later became a closed-source for-profit corporation."

Y 文件指出：“与 WorldCoin 和 OpenAI 联合创始人 Sam Altman 一起，我们确实有可能 WorldCoin 可能会走与 OpenAI 相同的道路，”Y 文件指出，“OpenAI 最初是一个开源、非营利项目，但后来成为一家闭源营利性公司。”

It's unclear how — or whether — Y will leverage ties to Lido or any of Cyber Fund's other portfolio companies, which include the

目前尚不清楚 Y 将如何（或是否）利用与 Lido 或 Cyber​​ Fund 的任何其他投资组合公司的联系，其中包括