Apps for Kik's Crypto Are Beginning to Appear on Apple and Google Stores

The number of mobile apps built around kin - the cryptocurrency created and launched by mobile messaging app Kik - is growing.

A quick summary: kin was created by the Canadian messaging app company Kik.

These apps don't have to compete solely on cool factor and user experience like most do, as the new kin-enabled apps pay users directly for their participation.

Put another way, think of kin as the means by which users are incentivized to fire up the apps and participate.

The following apps are currently live on Google Play: Reveald, Kinguist, Nearby, GoChallenge.

All of these apps have straightforward ways to earn and spend kin, as required by the developer program.

Forty were ultimately chosen, and in the end, 32 made it far enough in the developer program to submit their apps to either the Google Play or iOS stores.

All of the apps can be said to aim at a common goal: to see if cryptocurrencies can improve traditional mobile uses cases, whether it's a dating or task-tracking apps.

What's more, the apps being built around kin have taken what could be called an atypical path compared to other decentralized apps seen on the market today, wherein most ask users to connect with their own wallets.

Kin apps seem to be turning that approach on its head, with each app generating a fresh wallet for each user.