BATCommunity.org Now Live
Mar 29, 2019
Today we are excited to launch batcommunity.org, the official new homebase for the Basic Attention Token Community.
AMA with Holli Bohren
Mar 28, 2019
The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams.
New Brave Nightly Channel Now Available to Test the Most Recent Desktop Browser Builds
Mar 20, 2019
Today we’re launching the Nightly Channel, our fourth desktop browser download channel alongside the current Developer, Beta, and Release channels.
New Brave Version for Android Features Bottom Toolbar and Brave Rewards Beta
Mar 14, 2019
The latest version of Brave for Android (1.0.88) is now available for download at the Google Play Store. With Brave Rewards, you can choose to reward the content creators you love at the amount that works for you, while keeping your browsing history private. We are happy to say that this is now available in beta.
Brave’s Opt-In Private Ad Platform Enters Second Phase with BAT Rewards for Users and Reporting for Brands
Mar 8, 2019
Today, the Brave Ads Developer Channel Preview advances from phase one to phase two. Phase one provided the first public opportunity for brands, marketers, developers, and the community to test the Brave Ads experience from our Developer channel.
Brave at Mobile World Congress #MWC19
Mar 7, 2019
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.
Significant Battery Savings with Brave on Mobile: Brave Consumes 40% Less Battery than Other Leading Browsers
Feb 27, 2019
Brave mobile users can expect up to two and a half extra hours of browsing per battery charge.
Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership
Feb 26, 2019
Two Blockchain Pioneers Join Forces to Reward Users for Attention and Help Brands Reach New Audiences Through Private Ads
AMA with Ben Livshits
Feb 21, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on February 20th and featured Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist.
Memory Savings in Brave: 33% to 66% memory reduction over Chrome
Feb 15, 2019
In this post we demonstrate that Brave’s privacy benefits from ad-blocking go hand-in-hand with performance improvements. Specifically, a well-implemented ad blocker can deliver 33% to 66% memory savings or 500 MB to as much as 1.9 GB across just 10 pages open in a single session.
Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months
Feb 13, 2019
Never Stop Marketing Research, the leading research firm on the intersection of blockchain and marketing, and Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the release of a new tool to showcase the growth of blockchain solutions for marketers via the Blockchain MarTech Landscape.
Script Blocking Exceptions Update
Feb 12, 2019
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.
Earn Basic Attention Token, or BAT, With Coinbase Earn
Feb 6, 2019
$5 million, denominated in BAT, is being designated for this Coinbase Earn opportunity, and 100% of the BAT will go directly to users.
AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky
Jan 31, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on January 30th and featured Joel Reis, Senior Software Engineer for iOS, and Sergey Zhukovsky, Senior Software Engineer for Android at Brave.
Cheddar Partnership
Jan 29, 2019
Cheddar, the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company, and Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that they are partnering to provide free subscriptions to premium Cheddar content for users of the Brave browser. Brave has committed to funding hundreds of thousands of Brave users to take advantage of the premium Cheddar subscription.
AMA with Tom Lowenthal
Jan 17, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on January 16th and featured Tom Lowenthal, Brave’s Privacy & Security Product Manager.
Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel
Jan 15, 2019
Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and testers using the latest desktop browser build for macOS and Windows can activate opt-in Brave Ads within the Brave Rewards settings in the browser.
Brave passes 5.5 million monthly active users and features over 28,000 Verified Publishers
Jan 5, 2019
As we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward users for their attention with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), we wanted to share some of our 2018 milestones and thank our users and partners for their support during this busy year.
Brave Rewards Update
Dec 22, 2018
Brave Rewards is our anonymous donation system integrated directly into the Brave desktop browser.
New BAT Tipping Banner for Brave Creators, Available with Today’s Desktop Browser Update
Dec 20, 2018
Along with this update, Brave-verified publishers and creators can customize Tipping Banners for their sites, YouTube channels, or Twitch streams, in order to directly connect with the audiences that wish to seamlessly reward their content.
