At 12:45 PM EST, stunning news emerged that notoriously popular crypto wallet MetaMask is no longer available on the Apple App Store. This comes in light of a similar circumstance which befell another digital asset wallet, Trust Wallet, in September last year – though they responded swiftly informing their users the issue would be resolved.
This latest occurrence is particularly concerning among the app store’s user base paired with the notable issues it’s had in the past with crypto wallets. Coinbase experienced difficulties when wanting to release an application back in 2022. Co-founder of MetaMask, PM Finaly, hadwords around the practice – referring to the 30% in-app taxes an as “abuse of monopoly”.