# World Workshop: Our New Products | Mateo Sauton

- Channel: [ETHGlobal](https://streameth.org/ethglobal)
- Date: 2026-08-09
- Duration: 18:18
- Topics: World, Mateo Sauton, Tools for Humanity, Worldcoin, ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026, World ID, ID Kit, Agent Kit, SDKs, proof of humanity, unique human, bot protection, zero knowledge, privacy, credentials, selfie check, liveness, sybil score, passport, NFC, identity attestations, Orb, iris, biometrics, AI agents, human in the loop, agentic commerce, Shopify, delegation, deepfakes, CAPTCHA, KYC, MCP, dev portal, prizes, feedback, tracks, hackathon, workshop
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-ReqlPSWLDv4
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReqlPSWLDv4

## Description

In this workshop at ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026, Mateo Sauton from Tools for Humanity, the company building tools for World (formerly Worldcoin), explains the company's new products and hackathon tracks. He opens on why proof of human matters now: more than half of internet traffic is bots or agents, CAPTCHAs no longer reliably work against agents, KYC and identity checks struggle against deepfakes, so there is a real need to prove there is a human on the other side of the computer without revealing anything else about them. That is the core of World ID, a privacy-preserving, high-assurance authentication layer for bot protection that uses zero knowledge proofs for every attestation and is fully open source. He explains World ID's three credential tiers as assurance levels: the face credential (the new low-friction selfie check, in beta), passport (via the NFC chip, proving citizenship though not uniqueness, since he holds two passports as an Argentinian), and the highest-assurance Orb iris scan, which proves a unique human since iris and DNA are the only biometrics that cannot yet be faked or duplicated.

Mateo lays out the three tracks. Agent Kit ($8,000 across the top three teams) is an SDK that lets a human delegate their humanity to an agent, giving that agent a wallet so it can act on the human's behalf, for example buying on a Shopify store integrated with World that offers human-backed agents a preferred discount, or using human-in-the-loop delegation to require approval before an agent trades over a set amount. He stresses the track needs meaningful, end-to-end use of Agent Kit that verifies an agent is human-backed, and shares new verticals to explore (identity plus payments, agent-to-agent trust flows, regulated workflows), while noting simple agent reputation and free-API-call perks are already overdone. Selfie check ($3,500 across two winners) is the lowest-friction on-ramp to World ID, using the mobile camera for a liveness check and returning a sybil score to flag repeat attempts, with feedback required as a deliverable. Identity attestations (also beta) let a developer gate users on passport attributes like age, nationality, and document type, returning only whether the criteria were met (for example, over 18) without revealing the underlying data, and can be combined with selfie check. He shares the judging rubric (weighting product fit, feedback, quality, technical integration, and live deployment) and closes noting people on chain are the real primitive, with MCPs for the docs and dev portal so agents can handle integrations.

00:00 Introduction
00:11 Meet Mateo and World
00:39 The Three SDKs
00:52 The Peter Sandberger Story
01:41 Why Agents Changed Everything
01:52 Why Proof of Human Is Needed
02:09 Why CAPTCHA and KYC No Longer Work
02:37 The Problem World Solves
02:53 What World ID Is
03:31 The Three Credential Tiers
03:59 The Face Credential and Selfie Check
04:22 The Passport Credential
04:49 Why Passports Do Not Prove Uniqueness
05:00 The Orb and Iris Scanning
05:19 Why Iris Proves a Unique Human
06:11 The Three Hackathon Tracks
06:43 Why Feedback Is a Deliverable
07:09 Agent Kit: Delegating Your Humanity
07:37 The Shopify Discount Example
08:09 All-Chain Delegation and Human in the Loop
08:53 The Agent Kit Track Requirements
09:19 New Verticals to Explore
09:51 The Live Shopify Integration
10:20 What Will Not Qualify for Agent Kit
11:13 Selfie Check: The Lowest-Friction On-Ramp
11:46 The Sybil Score
12:37 The Selfie Check Track Requirements
13:06 Example Use Cases for Selfie Check
13:47 Identity Check and Passport Attributes
14:23 Gating Users by Nationality
14:51 Combining Both Tracks
15:14 Attribute Checks Without Revealing Data
15:39 The Judging Rubric
16:06 Verifying Proofs On Chain or in the Cloud
16:32 Live Deployment and Wrapping Up
17:33 People On Chain Are the Real Primitive
17:48 The Docs, MCPs, and Dev Portal
18:00 Closing

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🇵🇹 *ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026*
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