How Does InterLink Solve the Bot Problem in Web3?

Bots and fake wallets are one of the biggest problems facing Web3 today, because creating a new wallet costs nothing and takes seconds, letting a single person or script control thousands of identities at once. 

InterLink Labs is one project trying to fix this with a system called Proof of Personhood, which ties network access to a verified human face instead of an anonymous wallet address.

Why Are Bots Such a Big Problem in Web3?

Most blockchains treat every wallet as equal, regardless of who or what controls it. That design choice is what makes decentralization possible, but it also opens the door to what's known as a Sybil attack: one actor creating many fake identities to gain outsized influence over a network.

In practice, this shows up in a few recurring ways:

• Bots farming airdrops meant for genuine early users, diluting rewards for real participants
• Fake accounts swinging DAO governance votes in a direction the real community never chose
• Automated wallets inflating engagement and transaction metrics to make a project look more active than it is
• Spam and gas abuse that clogs networks with junk transactions

As large language models get better at mimicking human writing and behavior, the line between a real user and an automated one has become harder to draw, widening the gap between a wallet and an actual person.

How Does InterLink's Proof of Personhood System Work?

InterLink's answer is to make every account provably human before it can take part in the network. Here's how the pieces fit together.

Human Nodes and Identity Verification

Users download the InterLink app and complete a facial recognition and liveness check. This generates an encrypted identity hash stored on-chain, confirming a unique human without duplicates or farmed accounts. No biometric data itself is stored on-chain, only a zero-knowledge proof that the user is a unique human. 

Once verified, a user becomes a "Human Node" and can take part in governance, mini-apps, and rewards. The project reported more than 5 million verified users as of early 2026, though no more recent figure has been published, so that number may already understate current adoption.

To stay active, a Human Node must re-verify roughly every four hours by reopening the app, and each successful check earns ITLG points that convert to tokens at the eventual token generation event.

The project uses a dual-token structure: ITLG as the primary governance and utility token, and ITL as a secondary token for external payments and institutional use. 

How Does InterLink Compare to Other Identity Projects?

The closest comparison people draw is to World, formerly Worldcoin, since both projects use Proof of Personhood and both claim to be the Sybil-resistant identity layer for an AI-heavy Web3. The two diverge on hardware: Worldcoin verifies people through the Orb, a dedicated iris-scanning device, while InterLink relies on a smartphone camera and app, which is faster to scale but harder to defend against sophisticated deepfakes over time.

Worth noting: a separate, unrelated project also called World launched on July 1, 2026, as a fully onchain prediction market on Solana, live inside the Phantom wallet and built on Chainlink's oracle infrastructure for market data. 

That platform lets users trade contracts on things like crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and it is explicitly a different project from the Sam Altman-backed human verification network, despite the shared name. 

Conclusion

Bots and Sybil attacks remain a structural weakness in Web3, letting a small number of actors distort airdrops, governance votes, and engagement data. InterLink addresses this by requiring biometric human verification for every account and tying rewards to periodic re-verification. Its supply is most reliably reported as a fixed 10 billion tokens, its official token has not yet listed on major exchanges, and its cross-chain and NIST-alignment claims remain unverified, so those details are worth checking against InterLink's own documentation rather than third-party trackers.

Resources

1. InterLink Official Website: Main site describing InterLink ID, InterLink App, Mini-App Marketplace, and the SDK/MDK developer tools
2. InterLink Whitepaper – Introduction: Overview of the Human Network, InterLink ID, and core ecosystem components
3. InterLink Whitepaper – InterLink Genesis Token ($ITLG): Official page on ITLG's role, minting through verification, and supply mechanics
4. InterLink Whitepaper – InterLink Token ($ITL): Official page on ITL's function as the institutional/reserve token
5. Interlink Network Review by Plisio: Balanced review covering ITLG tokenomics, Proof of Personhood mechanics, the Worldcoin comparison, and naming-confusion warning