AppCoins News Update, or ANU for short, is a regular bi-weekly update by the AppCoins team. As usual, we are going to cover dev updates, market reports, team members and upcoming events. This week’s focus is on the latest updates regarding the upcoming Ritchie Release, and an overview of the business developments that have taken place over the last 7 months for the success of the AppCoins project.

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We’ve been actively working on the release of the 2nd of September — named as Ritchie Release — which will come with a lot of changes that remove adoption friction and will enable users to start using APPC to pay for in-app items as easily as they do today. We’ll go as far as to say that until the end of the year we’ll be able to have payments using Blockchain tech faster than users have today when using credit cards.

As we’ve explained in the last ANU, we are also working on easing the life of app developers when it comes to In-App Billing (IAB) integration using APPC. Those devs who integrated the App Store Foundation (ASF) SDK and had to manage their in-app items (SKUs) exclusively by themselves in the SDK/app and possibly using their backend will be able to integrate a billing system very similar to the one from Google Play.

App developers will be able to have purchases and SKUs managed by our infrastructure and rely on Blockchain tech for verifiability and data reliability.

The AppCoins Wallet will perform the role that the Google Play app performs in the Google Billing System, as it will be the artifact doing the calls to our API.

We plan to release the SDK and the AppCoins Wallet with this functionality during the next 2 weeks, which means we’ll be doing a major-minor release before the Ritchie release. We are fortunate to be already working with several developers and want to have them test the system in order to have it completely ready for the Ritchie release.

As we’ve also mentioned in the last ANU, we’re working to give users the ability to use their credit card to pay for in-app items as they do now, while maintaining the advantages of Blockchain tech to verify their purchases. This will be published on the Ritchie release. This is a major development for the AppCoins project because it shatters one of the greatest sources of friction to the adoption of the protocol, and of cryptocurrencies in general for that matter.

In addition, we’re working hard on the Unity plugin to make its integration as smooth as possible. We’ve been solving a few issues and making the plugin more robust and reliable. At the same time, we’re making sure it stays up-to-date with the native SDK developments.

Lastly, we are working on microsites that will cover the App Store Foundation conference in early November, as well as a page about the SDK which details better its added value for developers.