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SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, April 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. Under the...

Up to $3 Million in BAT Incentive Allocated and More Planned as Brave Passes 2 Million Monthly Active Users Today we are distributing the first part of our Million Dollar referral program directly to online publishers and content creators. Brave will now transfer...

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. Over the past few months, we've been developing a new Brave browser that is based on Chromium (as is the...

Over 50,000 sites received donations via Brave Payments 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...

Twitch Streamers Can Now Earn Revenue With The Brave Browser New million dollar referral program starts today to reward more creators Today we’re announcing that Twitch streamers can earn revenue in connection with the Brave browser. As part of our commitment to...

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 service provided by the Internet...

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 innovative browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that it is launching an up to...

Upgrade Simplifies Management of Multiple Sites and Channels 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...

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. Version 0.20.29 is available for download now on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and delivers  new...

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 YouTube Channels (With Over 100 Million Subscribers) Have Joined the Platform We’re pleased to...

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 support their favorite sites and content creators....

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 to share some of what we achieved together in the past year and what...

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 writing of our Linux desktop packages and...

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 compromise user data.  To combat this, we’ve integrated...

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 directly to their favorite sites and YouTube channels. Brave...

With the recent announcement that Brave Wallets can now be used to support your favorite YouTube Creators (as well as bloggers, and more), there have been a few questions about how a user funds their wallet. It is our aim to make that process clear in this short...

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 Attention Tokens (BAT).   YouTube viewers can either...

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 Play store. The app design provides easy...