Privacy-centric computing network and app ecosystem Blockstack has paused its App Mining pilot due to a range of challenges.

Rolled out in 2022, the App Mining projection is designed to incentivize developers to build apps on Blockstack. Although the startup has ostensibly seen a salubrious app growth throughout 2022 — from 46 to more than 400 apps so far, — it admitted an assortment of challenges in running a program of increasing size and complexity, according to a Feb. 10 blog mail.

Three key challenges to be solved

As such, Blockstack has decided to pause the pilot until it resolves key problems, which include objectively fair distribution, privacy-preserving analytics and decentralization. Blockstack expects to produce better ranking metrics used to reward apps that provide high-quality user experience and put users into control over their data and privacy.

Further, the company is gear up to develop a tool for tracking an app's user action that does not use users' information and privacy. Such quality metric would assistance Blockstack place how successful an app is. Finally, the company is faced with the chore to determine what potential independent entity or tool tin can adequately distribute Stacks (STX) tokens to App Mining participants.

"Blockstack PBC will no longer run the App Mining program. We're calling for a major overhaul of the App Mining program and non incremental improvements. Whatever new version of App Mining will exist driven by individuals or entities other than Blockstack PBC and probable volition not launch until Stacks 2.0 is operational," the post pointed out.

Blockstack'southward recent developments

Last August, Blockstack partnered with Lambda School to enable students enrolled in the programme to acquire how to code Blockstack apps and earn monthly acquirement through its App Mining Program.

At the time, Blockstack also planned to supply a range of tools needed for quality control. Each student-developed, decentralised app was prepare to exist subject to reviews and comprehensive user-testing videos.

As Cointelegraph reported last July, Blockstack gained SEC approval for its $28 million public token offering. That was the beginning SEC-sanctioned offering under Regulation A+, which would offering a token rather than a share.