DeFiLlama Delays Mobile Launch Due to App Store Phishing Apps

The delay exposes a structural problem for consumer-facing crypto tools: app stores have become a distribution channel where impersonators can front-run legitimate launches, and the burden of policing that falls on the project rather than the platform. For DeFiLlama, whose value rests on being a trusted data source, a phishing lookalike is a reputational risk as much as a security one. Whether the app store operators tighten verification for crypto apps, or projects increasingly route users away from stores entirely, is the open question worth watching.