App Stores Plan to Remove Coinbase’s DApp Browser

Google suspended Ethereum (ETH) wallet and decentralized application (DApp) MetaMask from Google Play app store, and Apple decided to follow. Now cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase can be forced to delete the DApp browser from its crypto wallet application in the app stores.

According to the post published in r/ethereum Reddit thread on December 28, Coinbase is removing the browser from their DApp in order to comply with App Store policies. The exchange CEO Brian Armstrong commented on the matter:

“Coinbase CEO here. This is really unfortunate to see. Apple seems to be eliminating usage of Dapps from the App Store. […] Presumably this would extend to other wallets as well (Trust, Argent, Metamask) it’s beyond Coinbase and IMO a very big threat to the ecosystem.”

Armstrong also noted that if users want to continue using DApps they have to ask Apple for permission to do so. He proceeded to say that ”This is an important area of innovation in finance, and many developers and early adopters of this technology have millions of dollars worth of crypto tied up in these financial applications, which they will no longer be able to use on Apple mobile devices if this app store policy continues.”

App Stores’ Total attack on cryptocurrency

We have already said that not so long ago Google suspended Ethereum wallet and MetaMask from the Google Play app store. As the developers say, the main reason Google provided for doing so was prohibition on mobile mining because the software was not designed for this purpose.

The MetaMask’s post on Twitter clearly reflects this: “The appeal rejection cited the same policy: No mining on @Android. We don’t.”

Cryptocurrency influencer Omar Bham suggested that large companies attempt to secure themselves on the market by subduing their decentralized competitors. His tweet from December 28 reads:

”Web3 is in direct competition with Google & Apple. We should expect continued censorship on MetaMask, Coinbase, & other dapp browsers.”

Earlier in December YouTube launched an attack on crypto content, removing videos. When YouTubers started to speak up, some videos were reinstated. Two days ago YouTube claimed that this happened due to the mistake in in the review procedures. After the incident influencers started to move to decentralized content sharing platforms such as LBRY.