“STEPN”, a game that earns by walking, can be paid with Apple Pay | coindesk JAPAN

The Solana-based move-to-earn game “STEPN” has partnered with the payment service “Apple Pay” to enable in-app purchases with legal currency, aiming to spread the app. rice field.

With this integration, users will be able to purchase NFT (non-fungible token) sneakers required for gameplay with Apple Pay. With Apple Pay becoming a fiat currency payment method, users no longer need to connect their cryptocurrency (virtual currency) wallets to purchase in-game assets, removing barriers to new players joining the STEPN ecosystem. That’s what it means.

STEPN’s COO Shiti Manghani told CoinDesk that by incorporating payment methods like Apple Pay, which are familiar to iOS users, it will reach the next 100 million users. He said it could be pulled into Web3. It adds that Stepn is the first blockchain game app to offer Apple Pay integration.

“It is a great honor and privilege to be approved by Apple for such an integration. Such a large platform will expose us to a much larger audience,” Mangani said. Says. “Our effort has always been to diversify both the app and Web3, revealing the benefits it brings to an audience that is not confined within the Web3 community.”

According to data platform Dune Analytics, STEPN quickly scaled up to more than 700,000 monthly active users in May 2022, but has since declined to about 23,000. Jerry Huang, co-founder of Find Satoshi Labs (FSL), which operates STEPN, said in a press release that using Web2 and Web3 hybrid technology will bring more users into the ecosystem. said to be a useful tool for

“With this integration with Apple Pay, we are making the user experience more seamless, removing barriers to entry for everyone who wants to make money, and reaching the maturity needed for the Web3 space to become mainstream. No doubt about it,” Huang said.

In November 2022, FSL rolled out its native NFT marketplace MOOAR to allow users to purchase in-game assets natively within their applications. In July of the same year, Stepn reported a profit of $123 million in the second quarter ahead of the arrival of the “crypto winter.”

｜Translation: coindesk JAPAN
｜Editing: Toshihiko Inoue
｜Image: Stepn
｜ Original: Web3 Move-to-Earn App STEPN Integrates Apple Pay for In-Game Purchases