Odaily Planet Daily News After losing the legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has relaxed the in-app purchase rules of the US App Store, allowing developers to guide users to external payment channels to avoid the 30% commission. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled on May 3 that Apple cannot prevent app developers from adding links or buttons to external payment channels.
Previously, although NFT and cryptocurrency transactions could be conducted on the App Store, Apple's 30% in-app purchase commission (or 27% external payment commission) had to be paid. After the ruling, OpenSea and other iOS applications that previously only supported browsing functions may add transaction modules, and applications that rely on built-in browsers such as MetaMask will obtain more compliant payment solutions. (The Block)