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Brave is pleased to announce that Dr. Johnny Ryan is joining the company as Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer. Dr. Ryan reports to Brendan Eich, co-founder and CEO, and is responsible for policy and privacy matters, as well as relationships with industry...

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. Our first phase started last Fall with the integration of BAT into Brave Payments, and...

Brave launches $500,000 BAT giveaway per month for browser users, alongside monthly payments to Brave Publishers Today, we are starting a monthly giveaway of about 500,000 USD in promotional Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) to Brave desktop browser users on a first come,...

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. AdGraph alleviates the...

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. With this release, users with multiple tabs and windows (even hundreds) will experience much-improved...

Last week, Brave gave multiple presentations in a flash tour across Asia and signed a lease for new space for its London office. On May 3rd, Brave co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich gave a keynote address at the World Digital Asset Summit (WDAS) in Singapore. The WDAS...

SAN FRANCISCO and GREENWICH, CT, May 3rd, 2018 —  Brave, which is combining an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Townsquare Media, Inc., which owns and operates a large portfolio of digital brands focused on music and...

Brave Partners with YouTube Stars Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco 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. Baker and DeFranco, who respectively have over 10...

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...