{"id":37802,"date":"2022-12-02T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37802"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:25:00","slug":"coinbase-wallet-nft-transfers-blocked-from-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/coinbase-wallet-nft-transfers-blocked-from-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Wallet NFT Transfers Blocked From App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbasewallet\/status\/1598354819735031809\">Coinbase<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33820575\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbasewallet\/status\/1598354819735031809\"><p>You might have noticed you can&rsquo;t send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature.<\/p><p>Apple&rsquo;s claim is that the gas fees required to send NFTs need to be paid through their In-App Purchase system, so that they can collect 30% of the gas fee.<\/p><p>For anyone who understands how NFTs and blockchains work, this is clearly not possible. Apple&rsquo;s proprietary In-App Purchase system does not support crypto so we couldn&rsquo;t comply even if we tried.<\/p><p>This is akin to Apple trying to take a cut of fees for every email that gets sent over open Internet protocols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that, even with IAP, apps aren&rsquo;t allowed to use NFTs to unlock content. So they only have value outside of the app\/device. Normally that&rsquo;s where IAP restrictions don&rsquo;t apply. You don&rsquo;t have to use IAP to transfer funds using Venmo or your banking app. You can also use apps to trade stocks without paying Apple 30% of the brokerage&rsquo;s fee.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/01\/iap-for-nfts\/\">IAP for NFTs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase (Hacker News): You might have noticed you can&rsquo;t send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature.Apple&rsquo;s claim is that the gas fees required to send NFTs need to be paid through their In-App Purchase system, so that they can collect 30% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-02T20:25:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"f5185fe2-bb2b-4379-be65-eedc58352aa6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-02T20:25:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9Rhf4rsrQ3m-Ze7cWDUqpg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,1910,522,31,2185,26,2157],"class_list":["post-37802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-coinbase","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-non-fungible-token-nft"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37803,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions\/37803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}