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 <li><strong>WLD bounced from the lower boundary of its rising channel.</strong></li>
 <li><strong>The 0.618 Fibonacci level rejected the first breakout attempt.</strong></li>
 <li><strong>RSI and volume are weaker than on the late September rally.</strong></li>
 <li><strong>A SwissBorg listing and lower daily unlocks support the backdrop.</strong></li>
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<p>Worldcoin (WLD) is trading at $0.5469 on Saturday, October 10, up 7.83% on the daily candle and 9.56% over 24 hours after buyers defended the lower boundary of a rising channel near $0.50, and the rebound has carried price straight into the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement at $0.5593. The session high of $0.5761 cleared that level before sellers pushed price back below it. The move comes three days after SwissBorg listed the token and with daily unlocks running 43% lower than in the first half of the year, although WLD remains 7.25% down on the week.</p>
<figure style="width: 100%" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://ethnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/wld-usdt-tradingview-10-10-2026.jpg" alt="WLD/USDT daily chart showing a rebound inside a rising channel with Fibonacci retracement levels, the 50 and 200 EMAs, and RSI." width="1280" height="713">
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  WLD/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView / Alexander Stefanov
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<h2 id="two-supports-stacked-at-0-50-stopped-this-week-s-pullback">Two supports stacked at $0.50 stopped this week’s pullback</h2>
<p>The bounce started from the lower boundary of the rising channel that has guided price since the mid-September low near $0.36. That boundary now sits around $0.50, almost on top of the 0.5 Fibonacci retracement at $0.5088, which marks the halfway point of the decline from the June high at $0.7229 to the August low at $0.2947. When a trendline and a retracement level fall on the same price, traders who follow either one place their buy orders in the same narrow band, and that is why the selling dried up there.</p>
<p>The trend behind the bounce has improved as well. The 50-day EMA ($0.4606) crossed above the 200-day EMA ($0.4359) at the start of October, which means the average price of the past 50 days is now higher than the average of the past 200. This week’s low near $0.47 held above both lines. With the 0.382 retracement at $0.4583 sitting beside the 50-day EMA, the $0.458 to $0.461 area is the main floor under the current structure.</p>
<h2 id="sellers-pushed-wld-back-under-0-5593-after-a-spike-to-0-5761">Sellers pushed WLD back under $0.5593 after a spike to $0.5761</h2>
<p>The 0.618 retracement at $0.5593 is the immediate test, and the channel midline runs through the same zone. Today’s wick above it shows that buyers can reach the level and cannot yet hold it. A daily close above $0.5593 would put the early October peak near $0.62 back in play, followed by the 0.786 level at $0.6313, where the last advance stalled. The June high at $0.7229 would complete the retracement.</p>
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    <th style="background: #0b1f4b; color: #ffffff; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right;">Price</th>
    <th style="background: #0b1f4b; color: #ffffff; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;">Distance</th>
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    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #b42318; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>0.786 Fibonacci</strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #7a271a;">Last advance stalled here</span></td>
    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">$0.6313</td>
    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;"><span style="background: #b42318; color: #ffffff; padding: 3px 10px; border-radius: 12px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">+15.4%</span></td>
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    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #b42318; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>0.618 Fibonacci</strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #7a271a;">Level to beat on a daily close</span></td>
    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">$0.5593</td>
    <td style="background: #fdecea; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;"><span style="background: #b42318; color: #ffffff; padding: 3px 10px; border-radius: 12px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">+2.3%</span></td>
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    <td style="background: #0b1f4b; color: #ffffff; padding: 12px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #f5b301; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>WLD price now</strong></td>
    <td style="background: #0b1f4b; color: #f5b301; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;">$0.5469</td>
    <td style="background: #0b1f4b; color: #ffffff; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 13px;">Oct 10</td>
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    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #067647; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>0.5 Fibonacci and channel floor</strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #085d3a;">Origin of today’s bounce</span></td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">$0.5088</td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;"><span style="background: #067647; color: #ffffff; padding: 3px 10px; border-radius: 12px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">-7.0%</span></td>
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    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #067647; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>50-day EMA and 0.382 Fibonacci</strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #085d3a;">Main floor of the structure</span></td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">$0.4606</td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;"><span style="background: #067647; color: #ffffff; padding: 3px 10px; border-radius: 12px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">-15.8%</span></td>
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    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; border-left: 6px solid #067647; border-radius: 8px 0 0 8px;"><strong>200-day EMA</strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px; color: #085d3a;">Long-term trend line</span></td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">$0.4359</td>
    <td style="background: #e7f6ec; padding: 11px 14px; text-align: right; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;"><span style="background: #067647; color: #ffffff; padding: 3px 10px; border-radius: 12px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">-20.3%</span></td>
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 <p style="font-size: 13px; color: #5b6577; margin: 6px 0 0 0;">Distance measured from $0.5469.</p>
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<h2 id="rsi-has-printed-lower-peaks-since-early-september-while-price-climbed">RSI has printed lower peaks since early September while price climbed</h2>
<p>Momentum is the weaker part of the picture. RSI reads 57.02, a level that shows buyers in control without the market being overheated, and it has recovered from a dip to the 50 line. It still sits under its own moving average at 59.74. More telling is the pattern of its peaks, which have been getting lower since early September while price made higher highs. Each new high has arrived with less buying strength behind it, a bearish divergence that today’s candle has not resolved.</p>
<p>Volume is lighter too. The rebound has traded 52.86 million WLD so far, lighter than on the late September rally days that carried price up through the channel.</p>
<h2 id="a-close-below-0-50-hands-the-chart-to-the-0-458-floor">A close below $0.50 hands the chart to the $0.458 floor</h2>
<p>A daily close below $0.50 would break the channel and expose the $0.458 to $0.461 cluster, roughly 16% under the current price. Below that, the 200-day EMA at $0.4359 and the 0.236 retracement at $0.3957 come next. A drop through both averages would also undo the crossover that turned the trend backdrop positive a week ago.</p>
<h2 id="swissborg-listed-wld-in-the-middle-of-the-pullback">SwissBorg listed WLD in the middle of the pullback</h2>
<p>The bounce follows three weeks of announcements, the latest from SwissBorg, which <a href="https://twitter.com/swissborg/status/2107773234192216390" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">confirmed the listing</a> on October 7, telling users they can “swap to WLD from 12 fiats or 400+ assets in one tap”. The company serves European clients through BlockNodes SAS, a French entity authorized under MiCA, the European Union’s licensing regime for crypto service providers.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
 <p><a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24WLD&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$WLD</a> Worldcoin is now supported on SwissBorg.</p>
 <p>"World ID proves you're human, not a bot or deepfake. It puts humans first in the AI era, from live events to gaming, social, dating and more."</p>
 <p>With SwissBorg you can swap to WLD from 12 fiats or 400+ assets in one tap.</p>
 <p>Will proof… <a href="https://t.co/YFXO63MHRu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/YFXO63MHRu</a></p>
 <p>— SwissBorg (@swissborg) <a href="https://x.com/swissborg/status/2107773234192216390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 7, 2026</a></p>
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<p>WLD continued lower after the announcement before rebounding, so the listing widened access without triggering an immediate bounce, and the authorization says nothing about World ID’s iris-scanning Orb devices.</p>
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 <p style="margin: 0 0 18px 0; padding: 12px 16px; background: linear-gradient(90deg,#0b1f4b,#3b2a8c); color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 8px;">What reached the market before the rebound</p>
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    <td style="padding: 0 0 24px 0; border: 0; vertical-align: top; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Daily unlocks cut 43%</strong><br><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #475467;">From 5.1M to 2.9M WLD a day</span></td>
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    <td style="padding: 0 0 24px 0; border: 0; vertical-align: top; line-height: 22px;"><strong>World Money rollout</strong><br><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #475467;">Financial app in 150+ countries</span></td>
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    <td style="padding: 0 0 24px 0; border: 0; vertical-align: top; line-height: 22px;"><strong>$49M in OTC sales</strong><br><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #475467;">All tokens locked for one year</span></td>
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    <td style="width: 44px; padding: 0; border: 0; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; background-image: linear-gradient(#d5dbe8,#d5dbe8); background-size: 3px 100%; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="color: #0e9fbf; font-size: 24px; line-height: 22px;">●</span></td>
    <td style="padding: 0 0 24px 0; border: 0; vertical-align: top; line-height: 22px;"><strong>World details peaq integration</strong><br><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #475467;">Human verification for robots</span></td>
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    <td style="width: 64px; padding: 0; border: 0; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: #067647; white-space: nowrap;">Oct 7</td>
    <td style="width: 44px; padding: 0; border: 0; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; background-image: linear-gradient(#d5dbe8,#d5dbe8); background-size: 3px 11px; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="color: #12b76a; font-size: 24px; line-height: 22px;">●</span></td>
    <td style="padding: 0; border: 0; vertical-align: top; line-height: 22px;"><strong style="color: #067647;">SwissBorg lists WLD</strong><br><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #475467;">MiCA-authorized access in Europe</span></td>
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<h2 id="why-2-9-million-new-wld-a-day-keeps-volume-in-focus">Why 2.9 million new WLD a day keeps volume in focus</h2>
<p>Light volume matters more for WLD than for most large tokens because the market has to absorb fresh supply every day. Since July 24, World’s <a href="https://world.org/blog/foundational-topics/tokenomics-milestone-wld-unlock-rate-to-decrease-by-43-in-july" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">published tokenomics schedule</a> has released 2.9 million WLD daily, down from 5.1 million, with community allocations halved to 1.6 million and team and investor releases reduced to 1.3 million from 1.9 million. The schedule has no cliff unlocks.</p>
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    <td style="background: linear-gradient(160deg,#0b1f4b,#1d3a8a); color: #ffffff; padding: 18px 14px; border-radius: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%;"><span style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: 800; color: #f5b301;">2.9M</span><br><span style="font-size: 13px;">WLD unlocked per day</span></td>
    <td style="background: linear-gradient(160deg,#3b2a8c,#5b3fc4); color: #ffffff; padding: 18px 14px; border-radius: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%;"><span style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: 800; color: #f5b301;">$47M</span><br><span style="font-size: 13px;">new supply per month</span></td>
    <td style="background: linear-gradient(160deg,#7a271a,#b42318); color: #ffffff; padding: 18px 14px; border-radius: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%;"><span style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: 800; color: #ffd7a8;">~28%</span><br><span style="font-size: 13px;">supply growth per year</span></td>
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 <p style="font-size: 13px; color: #5b6577; margin: 8px 0 0 0;">Calculated from World’s schedule at $0.5441.</p>
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<p>At the current price that flow is worth about $1.58 million a day. Annualized, it adds roughly 1.06 billion tokens to a circulating supply of about 3.8 billion implied by the $2.07 billion market value. A rally on thin volume has to hold against that steady issuance, which is why the late September sessions, with their heavier turnover, produced a cleaner advance than today’s.</p>
<p>One block of supply is out of the equation for now. On September 28 the World Foundation said World Assets, Ltd. <a href="https://twitter.com/worldcoinfnd/status/2104617126518747482" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">had closed a series of OTC sales worth $49 million</a> over the preceding month, all under a one-year lockup. Such deals are negotiated directly with buyers and never touch an exchange order book, and the amount is close to a single month of unlocks. The foundation did not disclose the price or the number of tokens.</p>
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 <p>World Assets, Ltd. has now closed a series of OTC sales for a total of $49,000,000. The sales were closed across the past month. <br>All sales are subject to a 1-year lockup. <br>Some sales have already settled, with the remaining delivery and settlement of WLD completing this week.</p>
 <p>— World Foundation (@worldcoinfnd) <a href="https://x.com/worldcoinfnd/status/2104617126518747482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">September 28, 2026</a></p>
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<h2 id="what-a-close-above-0-5593-or-below-0-50-changes-for-holders">What a close above $0.5593 or below $0.50 changes for holders</h2>
<p>The channel gives WLD a narrow band to resolve. A daily close above $0.5593 would turn the 0.618 level into support and leave $0.6313 as the next ceiling, about 15% higher. A close under $0.50 ends the sequence of higher lows that began in mid-September. Until one of those happens, the divergence on RSI argues for watching whether volume expands on any second push through resistance.</p>
<p>On the supply side, issuance stays at 2.9 million WLD a day under the current schedule, and the tokens sold over the counter become transferable from roughly September 2027. European demand now has a regulated entry point through SwissBorg, though biometric data rules remain a separate matter for World ID in the region.</p>
<p>World began <a href="https://world.org/blog/announcements/world-money" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">rolling out World Money</a> on September 17 with stablecoin balances in eight currencies and Morpho-powered earning programs that include WLD, and on September 30 World detailed how peaq added World ID to its operating system for connected machines. The company <a href="https://world.org/blog/announcements/world-year-three" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said in its July update</a> that it is moving into a phase built around utility. Neither World Money nor the peaq integration requires a user to buy the token.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://ethnews.com/wld-price-up-9-5-but-sellers-erased-the-breakout-within-hours/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">WLD Price Up 9.5%, but Sellers Erased the Breakout Within Hours</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ethnews.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETHNews</a>.</p>

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