The .brave Website-Building Challenge

More than 1,200 builders stepped up to create, experiment, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with .brave domains, Brave Wallet, BAT, and onchain Web experiences. The challenge—which we introduced in our October announcement and hosted through an official contest hub—brought together designers, developers, creators, and onchain enthusiasts from around the world, all building fully functioning sites using a .brave domain.

Over several weeks, builders submitted personal websites, onchain games, interactive experiments, creator tools, and niche utilities that showed just how creative and powerful onchain website building can be inside the Brave ecosystem.

Now that judging has wrapped and the results are in, we’re excited to share the top 10 winners, our People’s Choice Award recipients, and a curated list of outstanding honorable mentions worth exploring.

What Was the .brave Website-Building Challenge?

The 2025 .brave Website-Building Challenge was an open global competition inviting anyone to build a fully functioning website using a .brave domain. Participants were encouraged to claim a domain, create and publish a site, and showcase what an onchain website could look like in the Brave ecosystem. The challenge ran over a one month period beginning October 15th, 2025 and included a dedicated submission period, three weekly People’s Choice Awards, a full week of judging, and a final winners announcement on November 20.

More than 1,200 creators entered the competition, submitting a wide range of projects including personal websites, creator tools, games, interactive experiments and Web3 applications. A total of 15,000 BAT, $18,000 USD in .brave credits, and exclusive badges and Brave merchandise were awarded to the top 10 winners, and each People’s Choice Award winner won 300 BAT and $700 in .brave domain credits.

People’s Choice Awards (Community Voted)

Throughout the competition, community members voted in weekly People’s Choice Award rounds, shining a spotlight on builders whose sites resonated with the Brave community.

The People’s Choice Award winners were:

• Lease.brave
• Dao.brave
• Triwikrama.brave

These three projects stood out for design, creativity, and engagement, earning additional BAT rewards and .brave credits during the submission period.

While the main judging panel focused on technical execution, creativity, usability, and performance, the People’s Choice Awards represented the heart of the Brave community, rewarding projects that inspired, entertained, or delighted everyday users.

Top 10 Winners Of The 2025 .brave Website-Building Challenge

After an intensive week of judging, evaluating every site page by page, feature by feature, here are the 10 projects that rose above the rest.

1st Place: TravelNotes.brave

Our first place winner, TravelNotes.brave, delivers a visionary look at how travel experiences could evolve in a privacy-first, onchain world. The concept imagines a BAT-powered travel platform where users earn tokens for sharing photos, writing reviews, and publishing local guides, all authenticated onchain to preserve trust and originality. By integrating Brave Wallet and Brave Search, the project weaves together identity, discovery, and rewards in a way that feels seamless and intuitive.

What sets TravelNotes.brave apart is its clear sense of direction: a clean, user-friendly interface paired with a forward-looking model for how travelers and creators might interact without relying on centralized platforms. It demonstrates the potential for BAT to unlock new verticals and new forms of value exchange in everyday digital experiences. This thoughtful execution and ambitious vision earned TravelNotes.brave the top spot in the 2025 .brave Website-Building Challenge.

2nd Place: guanny.brave

Taking second place, guanny.brave stands out as a serene and beautifully executed calligraphy progressive Web app. The project blends traditional artistry with modern onchain technology, featuring a lifelike brush engine that responds smoothly to stroke pressure and direction. Its timeless grid layout provides structure without limiting creativity, creating an experience that feels meditative and precise all at once.

Thoughtful touches of Brave and BAT functionality show how classic creative practices can evolve in an onchain environment, offering new ways for artists to publish or potentially monetize their work. The level of polish, craft, and engineering quality in guanny.brave impressed judges across the board, earning it a strong second-place finish.

3rd Place: djh23.brave

In third place, djh23.brave delivers a clever and forward thinking demonstration of how music creators could sell tracks directly to fans using BAT and Brave Wallet. The concept removes intermediaries entirely, showcasing a streamlined peer-to-peer model where listeners support artists instantly and transparently.

The site pairs this idea with a sleek, intuitive UI, playful animations, and a reactive star filled backdrop that makes engaging with the demo genuinely fun. djh23.brave highlights how onchain domains and Brave’s tools could power a new wave of creator-first digital marketplaces, earning its well deserved spot in the Top 3.

4th–10th Place Winners

These entries impressed judges with their originality, UI/UX quality, interactivity, and alignment with the Brave spirit:

• 4th place: Innovledia.brave
• 5th place: buttfonts.brave
• 6th place: triwikrama.brave
• 7th place: ethpay.brave
• 8th place: dao.brave
• 9th place: conqueror.brave
• 10th place: retroweb.brave

Every one of these projects demonstrates what’s possible when onchain identity, creativity, and accessible Web3 tools intersect.

Honorable Mentions And Notable Entries

With so many submissions, limiting the winners to 10 was challenging. Here are some standout entries that caught the judges’ attention but didn’t place, showcasing clever concepts, impressive engineering, or unforgettable design. Others, such as heis.brave, used their .brave domain as a redirect to a traditional web destination, highlighting that onchain domains can also serve as flexible gateways that point anywhere you want your audience to go.

• Brandable.brave
• Dreadnet.brave
• Heis.brave
• Primer.brave
• Si.brave
• word4today.brave

Thank You, Brave Builders

To all 1,200+ entrants, People’s Choice Award voters, and everyone who supported the challenge: Thank you for bringing so much creativity and energy to the .brave Website-Building Challenge.

This is just the beginning of what’s possible with onchain domains, Brave Wallet, and Web3-powered publishing.