Brave

Twitch Support

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.

Let’s Encrypt Sponsorship

Feb 27, 2018

Today Brave is proud to announce its corporate sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA).

Brave Launches Million Dollar Referral Program Supporting Publishers And YouTube Creators With Crypto-Tokens

Feb 15, 2018

Brave Software, which is combining an innovative browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that it is launching an up to Million Dollar referral program to reward online publishers and YouTube creators.

Multi-property Support Now Live for Brave-verified Creators

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.

New Brave Release Available For Desktop Users With Across-the-board Improvements And Updates

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.

Brave-verified Publishers Double in One Week with Ongoing $1 Million Crypto-token Giveaway

Jan 24, 2018

We’re pleased to report that nearly 100,000 grants of our Million Dollar promotional Basic Attention Token (BAT) giveaway have already been claimed.

Brave Announces $1 Million Crypto-Token Giveaway

Jan 17, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our $1M BAT giveaway so our users can support their favorite sites and content creators.

Update: Brave Browser and BAT Achievements in 2017 and Goals for 2018

Jan 12, 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.

An Inside Look at Brave Development

Dec 20, 2017

Welcome to the first edition of our development blog detailing the progression of work being done at Brave Software.

Brave and DuckDuckGo Partner to Improve Privacy on the Web

Dec 14, 2017

Brave and DuckDuckGo are thrilled to announce a partnership today to radically improve Internet privacy. Standard browsing and search compromise user data.

Brave Grants 300,000 Promotional Tokens to Browser Users

Dec 6, 2017

Today we’re announcing a limited time promotion that grants Brave browser users utility tokens that can be contributed directly to their favorite sites and YouTube channels.

Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

Nov 16, 2017

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 Attention Tokens (BAT).

Tips and Tricks for Brave on Your Phone

Nov 9, 2017

Brave on Android recently exceeded one million downloads in the Google Play store. The app design provides easy access to Brave Shields.

ETHWaterloo Hackathon: Integrating MetaMask into Brave

Oct 20, 2017

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 hackathon.

BAT Mercury Launch

Oct 12, 2017

Today we’re pleased to announce that the first phase of BAT Mercury is complete, four and half months after our token sale.

Brave expands its leadership team with Ben Livshits as Chief Scientist and David Temkin as Chief Product Officer

Aug 25, 2017

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Ben Livshits as Chief Scientist and David Temkin as Chief Product Officer to our 30-member staff.

QUIC in the wild

Apr 25, 2017

Back-story: Brave users reported ads getting past our ad-blocking shields in previous Chromium versions, beginning with reports of ads displaying on YouTube.com on October 11, 2016.