Oh no!

The app store thinks my crypto game is an exchange?

How do I get past this?

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the app store has a very black and white criteria, they probably said "if it's not a wallet and you can use crypto with it, then we will classify it as an exchange"

for them even signing transactions is equivalent to using crypto, and they don't want apps moving money without taking their share, so there's no incentive to change their mind

so if the answer to the question "are you moving money with your game" is even an inch close to "yes" (e.g. gas payments) it's going to be very hard to get your app approved, in my experience

I would say that's an oversimplification, but it's not too far from the truth, you can check the guidelines, there are very few categories: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#cryptocurrencies

my point is that they don't care, Apple is very proud of the quality of the apps in the app store and crypto is a bad look, so, in my experience, if you want to store data onchain, avoid making it look crypto (tokens, transactions, etc)

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so if there are 2 apps where you simply click buttons, one app registers and stores data on AWS and another onchain, in that last case it'll be evaluated by apple as a crypto exchange? lol

with that approach it's apple who is the biggest party today that decelerates crypto adoption

Apple is one of the pinnacles of centralization right now, we devs are at their mercy and they don't like crypto

the key is to convince the reviewers that your app is not crypto focused, because crypto = bad

one way to do this is by using a credit system like warps, another way to do it is focusing solely on the game aspects like https://www.scoopit.lol/

but I think scoop has external wallets so that makes it easier for them to abstract the crypto part from the app

So there is an embedded wallet. What will they think abo it that? Does that make it an exchange?

Yeah just gas payments right now.