Kinit app lets iOS users earn and spend Kin cryptocurrency in apps

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 22, 2018
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

The Kik messenger service launched its Kin cryptocurrency last fall, and now it is launching its Kinit app on iOS to let people earn and spend cryptocurrency inside apps.

Kik also said that Kin is now the most active cryptocurrency running on Ethereum, with Kik and the Kinit app claiming more than 8,600 active users while all of the other decentralized apps (DApps) on the Ethereum blockchain have approximate 7,700 users. This is just from Android users alone, so adding iOS users will quickly increase this number.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.