Google confirms non-falseer portfolios exempt from new crypto app rules on Play Store

Google said it will update its Play Store policy for software portfolios this fall, so that initial concerns among users of digital asset will create the changes of self-spice portfolios on Android devices.

Google Play requires digital wallet apps, such as those of stock exchanges, jurisdiction-specific licenses-inclusive mica-authorization in the EU, FCA registration in the UK and the registration of fincing in the US for distribution in those markets, with transitional arrangements in France and Germany.

But crypto holders do not have to sound the alarm, according to the tech giant, who referred Decrypt to be Help center After being contacted.

“Non-right portfolios fall outside the scope of the policy of the cryptocurrency exchanges and software portfolios,” is the Help Center.

The platform will start to maintain its land -specific requirements on 29 October, according to a blog post from the company.

Google’s clarifying comments come after Crypto Twitter had deposited against the planned policy changes on Wednesday.

The core of the social media was the concern that the guidelines could apply to self-coastal applications on Android devices, which are largely not registered with supervisors in their respective areas of law.

The Android operating system works on more than 70% of all mobile phones, according to a report from 2025 from Poland-based software solutions company Neontri.

Jacob Wittman, general counsel for the Plasma Foundation,, however, rejected concern about the changes of the digital content platform and called them a ‘nothing hamburger’.

“The Google Play Wallet ‘Ban’ is a gigantic Niets-Burger in many ways,” Wittman said Wednesday in a social media post on X.

Nevertheless, the policy change “shows that technical giants control distribution and we are still in their grill,” he said.