MetaMask ETH Wallet Banned From Google Play Store

MetaMask ETH wallet as one of the first points to crypto-based logins and dapps got banned from the Google Apps Store. The reason was that the platform allowed phone-based mining which the wallet provider denied as we are reading further in the Ethereum news today.

The MetaMask ETH wallet denied its services that involve mining but the case is still being processed by Google’s compliance teams. The app store was extremely strict about the crypto-based apps mainly those that offered financial services. Google Play hosted a lot of legitimate apps but has also faced a lot of fakes as well which led to wallets getting hijacked and assets lots.

Mobile mining is a very unknown phenomenon in the crypto space and the only project that offers mobile mining was the Electroneum wallet which is still available on the Google Play platform. The wallet offers simulated mining that doesn’t overload processors but redistributes a pool of mining ETN coins already available. For that reason, removing the ETH wallet seems suspicious. The MetaMask wallet which is linked to the Ethereum network can be used for one form of simulated mining. The current active smart contract allows for the creation of the HEX token in exchange for ether coins. This process is similar to the one of buying a token rather than mining but it also differs from Google’s rules on offering crypto-enabled finances.

MetaMask offers a way to mine the HEX tokens but it is mostly considered as a scam activity. The wallet, however, is agnostic for most use cases and the team is now trying to fight to get the wallet back on the Google Play app. This decision got a lot of support from the crypto community. MetaMask has been one of the preferred tools to access multiple distributed apps and got integrated as a browser plugin and became one of the best-used Ethereum wallets. The suspension came at a time when the Internet giants have one again trashed the crypto space and YouTube started deleting crypto content producers and videos.

Google Play keeps hosting some of these apps and there is a new approach to present them. The search function got disabled for crypto terms and made it even more difficult to discover the wallets and the applications. The ban is mainly hard for the Ethereum ecosystem which is still one of the most used platforms for crypto and token activity, gaming, DeFi, and other use cases.