Nov 13, 2019
Over the past 4 ½ years I’ve been helping to build a “big” new startup named Brave. It’s been a wild ride, far exceeding anything I could have imagined. The company has grown from a team of 2, to over 100 passionate mission-driven teammates. Our user base has grown to 8.7 million monthly active users. Our users help support over 300,000 registered content creators via micropayments. And our community is growing and thriving more every day.
Mar 8, 2019
Brave’s Opt-In Private Ad Platform Enters Second Phase with BAT Rewards for Users and Reporting for Brands Preview available for testing and feedback in Brave Developer Channel Today, the Brave Ads Developer Channel Preview advances from phase one to phase two. Phase...
Mar 7, 2019
Brave at Mobile World Congress #MWC19 Last week, Brave attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and unveiled its experiential booth to explain how it’s reinventing online advertising with its global ad platform built on privacy. Check out Brendan Eich’s showfloor...
Feb 27, 2019
Significant Battery Savings with Brave on Mobile: Brave Consumes 40% Less Battery than Other Leading Browsers Brave mobile users can expect up to two and a half extra hours of browsing per battery charge. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello,...
Feb 26, 2019
Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership Two Blockchain Pioneers Join Forces to Reward Users for Attention and Help Brands Reach New Audiences Through Private Ads Barcelona – Feb. 26, 2019 – Brave Software, an innovative privacy...
Feb 21, 2019
AMA with Ben Livshits Welcome to the thirteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of...
Feb 15, 2019
Memory Savings in Brave: 33% to 66% memory reduction over Chrome This research was conducted by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. We are continuing our series of posts evaluating Brave browser’s...
Feb 13, 2019
Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months Never Stop Marketing Research and Brave Software Collaborate to Help Enterprise Marketers Harness Blockchain Potential Rapidly New York and San Francisco, February 13, 2019 —- Never Stop Marketing...
Feb 12, 2019
Script Blocking Exceptions Update We have received many questions about script blocking exceptions being reported by several news outlets and blogs. This conversation is about script loading, not tracking. Loading a script from an edge-cache does not track a user...
Feb 6, 2019
Earn Basic Attention Token, or BAT, With Coinbase Earn In an effort to make BAT easier to use and easier to understand, Brave Software is working with Coinbase Earn, a product that allows users to earn utility tokens by viewing and completing educational tasks. $5...
Jan 31, 2019
AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky Welcome to the twelfth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to...
Jan 29, 2019
Cheddar Partnership CHEDDAR AND BRAVE PARTNER TO OFFERPREMIUM CHEDDAR CONTENT TO BRAVE BROWSER USERS NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 29th, 2019 – Cheddar, the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company, and Brave Software, an innovative...
Jan 17, 2019
AMA with Tom Lowenthal Welcome to the eleventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the...
Jan 15, 2019
Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel New online advertising model upends current systemwith 70% revenue share to users and privacy by design Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and...
Jan 5, 2019
Brave passes 5.5 million monthly active users and features over 28,000 Verified Publishers 2018 highlights include 5X MAU growth, major product redesigns, and key partnerships As we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward...
Dec 22, 2018
Brave Rewards Update Brave Rewards is our anonymous donation system integrated directly into the Brave desktop browser. It is accessible to users from the URL bar via the BAT (Basic Attention Token) logo, and though off by default, can be easily switched on with the...
Dec 20, 2018
New BAT Tipping Banner for Brave Creators, Available with Today’s Desktop Browser Update Today we’re releasing Brave 0.58, the latest update to our Chromium-based desktop browser, available for download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Along with this update,...
Dec 19, 2018
Brave Software Joins AdLedger Non-Profit Blockchain Consortium Unites Industry-LeadingTechnology Companies To Reform The Future Of Digital Advertising New York, NY — December 19, 2018 — AdLedger, the non-profit research and development consortium building...
Dec 13, 2018
AMA with Ryan Watson and Kamil Jozwiak Welcome to the tenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give...
Dec 12, 2018
New Brave version now available for download for iPhones and iPads, with significant performance gains We are excited to announce that the latest version of Brave (1.7) for iOS is now available for download at the App Store. This is a major release as we have replaced...
Dec 7, 2018
Brave Upgrades Users of its Desktop Browser to its Redesigned, Faster Version New Chromium-based release automatically replaces previous Muon-based version with seamless migration Starting today, Brave users who are currently browsing with our Muon-based desktop...
Nov 29, 2018
AMA with Alex Wykoff Welcome to the ninth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the...
Nov 27, 2018
“Best of the Brave” Video Contest Winners Are Rewarded with 115K BAT On September 26, we launched a video contest for Brave-verified online publishers and creators. Participants were asked to upload a video to YouTube in order to celebrate our recent milestone of 4...
Nov 26, 2018
AMA with Luke Mulks Welcome to the eighth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the...
Nov 15, 2018
SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web This post is an abbreviated version of this report, based on research conducted at Brave by Andrius Aucinas (Performance Researcher), Peter Snyder (Privacy Researcher), and Dr. Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist), as...
Nov 15, 2018
AMA with Brian Brown Welcome to the seventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the...
Nov 1, 2018
AMA with Sampson Welcome to the sixth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project...
Oct 31, 2018
Brave Sponsors Cal Hacks 5.0, the World’s Largest Collegiate Hackathon Prizes Available for Participants who Create a Brave Browser Extension From November 2-4, 2018, Brave will be at U.C. Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium as one of Cal Hacks’ sponsors, alongside...
Oct 19, 2018
AMA with Yan Zhu Welcome to the fifth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an...
Oct 18, 2018
New Brave Browser Release Available for General Download on Brave.com Redesigned Chromium-based desktop version replaces previous Muon-based browser and delivers 22% faster load time Starting today, users who download a new version of the Brave desktop browser from...
Oct 18, 2018
The New Brave is 22% Faster Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Brave Muon Version, on Average This research was conducted by Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. Back...
Oct 5, 2018
AMA with David Temkin Welcome to the fourth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the...
Sep 27, 2018
Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing Today we’re releasing the first beta version of our upcoming Brave 1.0 browser for testing on our new Brave Beta Channel. This beta is a work in progress for developers and...
Sep 26, 2018
Brave Launches 100K BAT “Best of the Brave” Video Contest for Online Creators and Publishers Brave recently passed the 4 million bar of monthly active users (MAU), and has over 21,000 Verified Publishers. We’re celebrating this MAU milestone by inviting...
Sep 21, 2018
Civic to Offer Secure Identity Verification Services on the Brave Publisher Platform Brave-verified Publishers with Civic Reusable KYC will be able to collect earned BATs with their own Ethereum wallets Civic, the global digital identity leader, and Brave, an...
Sep 13, 2018
Fast and Private Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as its Default Search Engine in France and Germany PARIS, France, and SAN FRANCISCO, USA — September 13th, 2018 – Brave, which combines an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising...
Sep 10, 2018
Sep 6, 2018
CNET
If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: A new version of the ad-blocking browser arrived Thursday that makes it as customizable as Google’s rival Chrome.
Sep 10, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
ccn
Brave Software has announced that its eponymous web browser has been downloaded from the Google Play Store 10 million times, doubling its user base in just four months. This was revealed in a post on its official Twitter handle last Friday.
Sep 10, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
Journal Du Coin
Les nouvelles se succèdent pour le navigateur Brave, et elles sont plutôt bonnes. Après avoir annoncé sa prochaine évolution consistant à rémunérer les comptes Twitter et Reddit de ses utilisateurs avec ses tokens BAT, on apprend que Brave a dépassé le chiffre de 10 millions de téléchargements !
Sep 10, 2018
Aug 17, 2018
InfoWorld
Being the creator of JavaScript has been a blessing and a curse for Brendan Eich. On the one hand, JavaScript has the distinction of being the most popular programming language in the world. On the other, no language has been the target of more snark.
Sep 10, 2018
Jun 28, 2018
CNET
Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web.
A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs. Tor helps keep you anonymous…
Sep 10, 2018
Jun 20, 2018
TechCrunch
Brave, an ad-blocking web browser with a blockchain-based twist, has started trials of ads that reward viewers for watching them — the next step in its ambitious push towards a consent-based, pro-privacy overhaul of online advertising.
Sep 10, 2018
Jun 18, 2018
The Wall Street Journal
Digital advertising has a serious problem: fraud.
Widespread fraudulent practices are inflating measures of the traffic that digital ads attract, leading some advertisers to pay higher rates than they should.
Sep 10, 2018
May 21, 2018
ccn
Cryptocurrency-powered web browser Brave has now been downloaded more than five million times from the Google Play mobile app store.
The ad-blocking browser, which was co-founded by Mozilla Firefox creator Brendan Eich, reached this significant milestone last Thursday…
Sep 10, 2018
Apr 19, 2018
CNET
Startup Brave soon will give cryptocurrency-like payment tokens to anyone using the ad-blocking web browser, a move that won’t let you line your own pockets but that will make it easier to fund the websites you visit.
Sep 10, 2018
Apr 18, 2018
TechCrunch
It looks like at least one major news publisher is on-board with Brave, the ad-blocking web browser founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.
Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group announced today they will be partnering in a deal that will bring Media Group content…
Sep 6, 2018
AMA with Johnny Ryan Welcome to the third post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series, which will run until January 2019, is...
Aug 29, 2018
Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private Preliminary results of a user study This ongoing research is being conducted by Ruba Abu-Salma, a Ph.D student in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), and Brave’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Ben...
Aug 23, 2018
AMA with Brian Bondy On August 16th, the BAT Community successfully kicked off an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) series with CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich. The series, scheduled to run from August 2018 through January 2019, features several different guests from the Brave...
Aug 17, 2018
AMA with Brendan Eich On August 16th, BAT Community hosted the first in an upcoming series of AMAs (Ask Me Anything!) with Brendan Eich in the r/BATProject subreddit. Over the course of the AMA, Brendan answered a mix of pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors...
Aug 10, 2018
Understanding Redirection-Based Tracking This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Peter Snyder and Ben Livshits. It is the third in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly...
Aug 3, 2018
Brave Browser iOS App Now Offers DuckDuckGo Search in Private Tabs We recently partnered with DuckDuckGo to improve privacy on the web by integrating a new DuckDuckGo search feature within Private Tabs in Brave’s desktop browser. We’re excited to announce that this...
Jul 26, 2018
Into the Blockchain: Brave with MetaMask The decentralized web is there for exploring. Trails are being blazed with decentralized applications built on the Ethereum blockchain, with the MetaMask extension providing a bridge to explore and handle decentralized...
Jul 18, 2018
The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Antoine Vastel, Peter Snyder, and Ben Livshits. It is the second in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision....
Jul 12, 2018
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Jun 28, 2018
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Jun 20, 2018
Brave is pleased to announce that Dr. Johnny Ryan is joining the company as Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.
Jun 19, 2018
We’ve been busy building our new Basic Attention Token (BAT) platform, which includes a new consent-based digital advertising model that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers.
Jun 6, 2018
Brave launches $500,000 BAT giveaway per month for browser users, alongside monthly payments to Brave Publishers.
May 25, 2018
This week, Brave unveiled new research that is under submission to an upcoming conference regarding how to improve and automate ad blocking with AdGraph, a graph-based machine learning approach for detecting ads and trackers on a given web page.
May 16, 2018
Today we released a new desktop version of Brave (0.22.714) which features significant performance improvements for users who typically use many tabs and windows.
May 11, 2018
Last week, Brave gave multiple presentations in a flash tour across Asia and signed a lease for new space for its London office.
May 3, 2018
Brave, which is combining an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Townsquare Media, Inc., which owns and…
Apr 27, 2018
Brave is excited to announce partnerships with Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco as we continue our mission of providing a better deal for online creators.
Apr 18, 2018
Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.
Apr 12, 2018
Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.
Mar 28, 2018
The Brave 1.0 browser for desktop operating systems is coming later this year and it will include several significant improvements that we’d like to share now.
Mar 24, 2018
In January, we announced that we’d distribute $1 million worth of promotional BAT (Basic Attention Token) via user grants to Brave desktop browser wallets — ultimately to be contributed to website publishers and YouTube creators via Brave Payments.
Mar 1, 2018
Today we’re announcing that Twitch streamers can earn revenue in connection with the Brave browser. As part of our commitment to Twitch, we have added up to an additional $1 million to our referral program for creators.
Feb 27, 2018
Let’s Encrypt Sponsorship Why Supporting Let’s Encrypt Matters… …and Why Brave Integrates HTTPS Upgrades Today Brave is proud to announce its corporate sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA). Let’s Encrypt is a...
Feb 15, 2018
Brave Launches Million Dollar Referral Program Supporting Publishers And YouTube Creators With Crypto-Tokens Creators Earn Approximately 5 USD Worth of Promotional BAT for Each Active User They Bring to the Brave Browser Brave Software, which is combining an...
Feb 1, 2018
As part of our effort to make the Basic Attention Token platform even more efficient and easy to use for our thousands of verified sites and content creators, we recently upgraded our Publishers website to allow a single publisher account to manage multiple properties.
Jan 31, 2018
Today we’re releasing a desktop browser update with highly-awaited features and performance improvements, as well as multiple fixes for issues reported by our user community.
Jan 24, 2018
Brave-verified Publishers Double in One Week with Ongoing $1 Million Crypto-token Giveaway Update: All of the tokens in this giveaway have been claimed. We’ll have more in the future, so please check back in later. Less Than 50% of Promotional BAT Remain; 6,000...
Jan 17, 2018
Brave Announces $1 Million Crypto-Token Giveaway Update: All of the tokens in this giveaway have been allocated and/or claimed. Please check back in later for more promotions. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our $1M BAT giveaway so our users can...
Jan 12, 2018
Update: Brave Browser and BAT Achievements in 2017 and Goals for 2018 We would like to take a moment to thank all of our users and supporters for an amazing 2017, and we look forward to welcoming what is sure to be an exciting 2018. As such, we thought it appropriate...
Dec 20, 2017
An Inside Look at Brave Development Welcome to the first edition of our development blog detailing the progression of work being done at Brave Software. As the engineer tasked with Linux packaging and Linux Widevine support at Brave, my position encapsulates the...
Dec 14, 2017
Brave and DuckDuckGo Partner to Improve Privacy on the Web Private Search in Private Browser Tabs Gives Users Unmatched Online Privacy Brave and DuckDuckGo are thrilled to announce a partnership today to radically improve Internet privacy. Standard browsing and search...
Dec 6, 2017
Brave Grants 300,000 Promotional Tokens to Browser Users Brave Giving Away ~5 USD Grants in Tokens Per User on First Come, Time-Limited Basis Today we’re announcing a limited time promotion that grants Brave browser users utility tokens that can be contributed...
Nov 16, 2017
Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube YouTube creators can now earn BAT for their content With today’s release of Brave browser 0.19.95 for the desktop, audiences can use the Brave Payments system to reward their favorite YouTube creators with Basic...
Nov 9, 2017
Tips and Tricks for Brave on Your Phone Brave Browser for Android Passes One Million Downloads; New Brave iOS 1.5 Now Available, with Support for iPhone X Tips and Tricks for Brave on Your Phone Brave on Android recently exceeded one million downloads in the Google...
Oct 20, 2017
ETHWaterloo Hackathon: Integrating MetaMask into Brave This past weekend, a few members of our engineering team packed up and traveled to Waterloo, Ontario, to join 100 teams (over 400 developers from 32 countries) at ETHWaterloo, the world’s largest Ethereum...
Oct 12, 2017
BAT Mercury Launch Today we’re pleased to announce that the first phase of BAT Mercury is complete, four and half months after our token sale. BAT integration into Brave 0.19 makes the Brave browser the first application on the BAT platform. The Brave Payments system...
Aug 25, 2017
Brave expands its leadership team with Ben Livshits as Chief Scientist and David Temkin as Chief Product Officer We’re excited to welcome Dr. Ben Livshits as Chief Scientist and David Temkin as Chief Product Officer to our 30-member staff. Ben and David are...
Apr 25, 2017
QUIC in the wild Update: This post has been edited to correct errors of fact about developer tools and APIs with respect to QUIC. Also, the original post implied that Google might be using QUIC in an anti-competitive manner. We regret the errors, and we apologize for...
Mar 30, 2017
Their connection, your data. Why should users care about privacy, and protecting their data from being collected and sold by third parties? To put it simply, your digital data trail is the evidence of your human presence online. Your data is valuable, private, and...
Mar 11, 2017
Unpublishing Link Bubble Today we are unpublishing Link Bubble from the Google Play Store. To our loyal Link Bubble users, rest assured: if you have installed Link Bubble, you can continue to use it. The code will remain open source, so you can build, customize, and...
Sep 1, 2016
Introducing Brave Payments As part of our 0.11.6 release of Brave for desktop today, we are pleased to announce the beta version of Brave Payments, our Bitcoin-based micropayments system that can automatically and privately pay your favorite websites. For the first...
Apr 8, 2016
#BeBraveDay We’ve been busy at Brave building a solution designed to give users and publishers the fair deal they deserve on the Web. Today we’re releasing our 0.9 developer version, which delivers what thousands have been asking for: the beginning of...
Apr 7, 2016
Brave’s Response to the NAA: A Better Deal for Publishers The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program. This...
Mar 31, 2016
Brave’s Payment Spec Out for Developer Input The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program. This program has...
Jan 27, 2016
How Brave Works for You The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program. This program has not yet launched for...
Jan 20, 2016
How to Fix the Web The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will...
