Apple facilitates the NFT, crypto rules for iOS applications after an antitrust decision

The antitrust case of Fortnite Maker Epic Games against Apple benefited the cryptography industry on Thursday, when the iPhone manufacturer softens the restrictions to the capacity of developers to offer the United States applications that direct users to non-standard purchasing methods or digital collectibles.

Apple has updated its iOS app store Examine After an American district judge discovered this week that the Tech Titan had “voluntarily” violated a judicial injunction published in 2021. In the future, the Federal Court prohibited Apple from receiving costs on purchases made outside of its iOS applications (currently 27%) or to limit the capacity of developers to direct the users to third -party websites.

In an email obtained by DecipherApple has informed iOS developers that “applications on American stores are (more) prohibited from including buttons, external links or other calls for action when you allow users to browse the NFT collections belonging to others.”

“The prohibition to encourage users to use a purchase method other than the purchase integrated into the application does not apply to the store in the United States,” added the email.

Although the relaxed restrictions do not apply to integrated features, such as the purchase of premium content or the increases in the game, they can lead to a “Golden Golden Consumer Crypto Bull Run”, Wojciech Kulikowski, software engineer at Stuff,, wrote on the decentralized media protocol.

“This will allow more experimentation with crypto-swimming mobile applications which were previously blocked from the Apple App Store (iOS),” he said Decipher.

In practice, NFT markets as Opensea have limited features via their iOS applications. Users can browse a panoply of NFT collections, but they cannot buy them.

Some companies, including Magic Eden, have published digital portfolios that allow users to make integrated purchases using a browser integrated into their application. The characteristic reflects auto-carvial portfolios offered by companies like Metamask, Coinbase and United.

The IOS journal directives of the Apple App Store still include strict restrictions on cryptocurrencies. Crypto applications cannot offer currency to accomplish tasks, facilitate offers of initial parts, also called ICO, or use user devices to use digital assets.

Google updated its Google Play Store policies in 2023, allowed NFTS to unlock the content in the application, it doesn’t matter where they were purchased. Apple’s main rival in the mobile space has also forced game developers to reveal if their experiences were based on blockchain, similar to the epic game platform.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for a comment from Decipher.

Edited by Andrew Hayward