popular this week cryptocurrency wallet service provider MetaMask had begun to ban all wallets associated with Iranian IP addresses. Today, many crypto money and NFT community members shared news on social media that their access to MetaMask services was completely cut off.
MetaMask Claims The Problem Is Caused By The Infura Service They’re Working With
In response to the backlash, MetaMask was forced to publish a short blog post. In the blog post, it was reported that the access barriers were implemented as per an agreement with Infura, a service provider the company uses to retrieve Blockchain information. As a result, MetaMask announced that they will not be able to serve in some regions due to legal incompatibilities.
After this blog post was written, Infura made a series of tweets, saying that the bans were deliberately imposed, but applied too broadly for a technical reason.
The project’s official Twitter account said in a statement:
“Some of the configurations we had to change due to new sanctions directives from the United States and other countries were applied to a larger area than they should have been due to an error. This was something we overlooked and we are grateful for letting us know. After we figured out what the problem was, we fixed it, and our service continues to work in the current situation.”
Iranian Users Can’t Access OpenSea Also
However, MetaMask was not the only Web3 platform to restrict logins from Iranian users. Many Twitter users today are the world’s largest NFT also reported that they could not access OpenSea, which is the market. According to reports, a wide-ranging ban has begun to apply to registered user accounts through Iran.
It was described as a serious problem that these applications, which were built on the ideal of a decentralized internet, which should not have any controller, blocked some users. In decentralized applications, no person or institution should be able to decide who can access which services. That’s why these latest bans were met with anger by users.
In addition, some sources recently reported that MetaMask is based in Venezuela. Ethereum He also shared information that he blocked his transfers.