{"id":122247,"date":"2023-07-14T03:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/google-embraces-digital-assets-with-updated-play-store-policy-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T03:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:42:55","slug":"google-embraces-digital-assets-with-updated-play-store-policy-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/google-embraces-digital-assets-with-updated-play-store-policy-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Embraces Digital Assets With Updated Play Store Policy\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Google has given the green light to mobile app developers embracing digital assets and NFTs, with the Google Play Store updating its policies to welcome blockchain-based content within supported applications.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, Joseph Mills, Google Play&#8217;s group product manager, announced the policy change in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2023\/07\/new-blockchain-based-content-opportunities-google-play.html\">blog posts<\/a>,  Google said the policy changes followed close consultation with Play&#8217;s developer community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re pleased to share that we&#8217;re updating our policy to open new ways to transact blockchain-based digital content within apps and games on Google Play,\u201d Mills said. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom reimagining traditional games with user-owned content to boosting user loyalty through unique NFT rewards, we&#8217;re excited to see creative in-app experiences flourish and help developers expand their businesses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mills added that Google Play will soon talk to &#8220;industry partners&#8221; regarding improving its support for &#8220;blockchain-based app experiences, including in areas such as secondary markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Google appears to be expanding its presence in the web3 industry.  Over the past year, Google Cloud has inked partnerships with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/google-cloud-polygon-partnership\">Polygon<\/a>Solana, Near Protocol, and Hedera.<\/p>\n<p>Google Cloud also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/google-node-management-services\">Launched<\/a> node management services for Ethereum validators in October 2022 and expanded the service to support other Proof of Stake blockchains in March 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Digital Asset Restrictions<\/h2>\n<p>The move marks a change in direction from Google, which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-44980936\">banned<\/a> crypto mining apps back in July 2018 and struggled to fight <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_in\/research\/21\/h\/fake-cryptocurrency-mining-apps-trick-victims-into-watching-ads-.html\">fraudulent<\/a> crypto applications in the following years.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Mills emphasized Google&#8217;s desire to balance fostering innovation in digital assets with protecting Play Store users from associated risks.<\/p>\n<p>Apps must declare when one of their apps sells or allows users to earn tokenized digital assets, and must not \u201cpromote or glamorize\u201d any earning opportunities related to digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Google also warned that apps must pass Play&#8217;s gambling eligibility requirements to accept money in exchange for the opportunity to win assets with unknown monetary value, such as NFTs, including &#8220;loot box&#8221; mechanisms offering randomized items to purchasers.<\/p>\n<p>While Google Play already hosts blockchain-related applications, the company hopes to foster new &#8220;immersive digital experiences with tokenized digital assets&#8221; on the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has given the green light to mobile app developers embracing digital assets and NFTs, with the Google Play Store updating its policies to welcome blockchain-based content within supported applications. On July 12, Joseph Mills, Google Play&#8217;s group product manager, announced the policy change in a blog posts, Google said the policy changes followed close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-122247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122249,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122247\/revisions\/122249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}