NEAR, MetaBUILD 2, and Brave Head to ETHDenver

Feb 15, 2022

NEAR and Brave will be at ETHDenver 2022 for the MetaBUILD 2 Hackathon. The mission: Support the global community of developers in building a multi-bridge, multi-chain world!

Announcing bitFlyer integration for Brave Rewards Android Users in Japan, and major Brave Rewards UI/UX updates on Android

Feb 9, 2022

We are excited to announce the expansion of our partnership with bitFlyer for our Brave Rewards users on Android in Japan. Users will also notice major UI/UX updates on Android.

Crypto Goes Mainstream: Introducing Season 4 of The Brave Marketer Podcast

Jan 31, 2022

Crypto marketers share how they’re leveraging this exciting moment in time in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer podcast.

Brave welcomes Annie Lee to its leadership team as its first Chief Marketing Officer

Jan 27, 2022

Brave is excited to announce that Annie Lee has joined the company as its first Chief Marketing Officer. She was most recently at Twitch, an Amazon subsidiary.

Google's Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

Jan 26, 2022

The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.

Privacy And Competition Concerns with Google’s Privacy Sandbox

Jan 26, 2022

The UK CMA (along with other regulators and web activists) are largely evaluating Google’s Privacy Sandbox as an isolated, independent set of features. Evaluations that fail to consider how Privacy Sandbox will interact with other upcoming Google proposals will miss how radical and harmful Privacy Sandbox will be to the Web in practice. This piece presents how Privacy Sandbox, when considered with other upcoming Chrome features, will harm user choice, privacy, and competition on the Web.

STATE OF THE BAT: 2021 Recap and 2022 Outlook

Jan 18, 2022

2021 was a significant year for the growth and development of Brave and BAT. Brave grew over 2x to 50.2 million monthly active users in 2021, with over 8 million users earning BAT through Brave Rewards, becoming the 11th most distributed token by on-chain holders according to etherscan.io.

Nouns DAO and Brave: Engaging with the Web3 community to champion transparency and decentralized collaboration

Jan 12, 2022

A unique collaboration that led to a novel on-chain transaction to purchase paid advertising space by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)

Grab bag 3: fixing pool-party, improving fingerprinting protections, more debouncing, and less Chromium

Jan 7, 2022

Brave continues to ship the most aggressive and broad privacy protections available in any popular browser. Starting in Brave 1.35, Brave includes protections against all known practical forms of “pool-party” attacks.

Brave Passes 50 Million Monthly Active Users, Growing 2x for the Fifth Year in a Row

Jan 5, 2022

For the fifth year in a row, we’ve doubled the number of our monthly active users, going from 24 million MAU on December 31st, 2020, to over 50 million by the end of 2021.

Partitioning network-state for privacy

Dec 22, 2021

Brave now includes network-state partitioning features, protecting Brave users from an even greater range of online tracking techniques.

Brave Wallet Beta Release now Available on Android and iOS, Enabling Mobile Users to Test Crypto Access

Dec 16, 2021

Brave Wallet is now available in beta release for Brave mobile, enabling users to store, manage, grow, and swap their crypto portfolio from a crypto wallet built into the Brave mobile browser.

Preventing pool-party attacks

Dec 15, 2021

Brave has identified a new category of tracking vulnerability, forms of which are present in all browsers. We call this category of attack “pool-party” attacks because the attack uses collections (or “pools”) of limited-but-shared resources to create side channels.

Brave and UC San Diego announce SugarCoat, a new solution to strengthen the protection of Web users’ privacy while not breaking websites

Nov 18, 2021

Brave is pleased to announce SugarCoat, the result of a year-long research collaboration with University of California San Diego to create a new system to improve Web privacy without sacrificing compatibility at Web scale.

Introducing the Brave Wallet, a Browser-Native Crypto Wallet With No Extension Required

Nov 16, 2021

Today, we launch the Brave Wallet, a native wallet built into the browser, enabling users to store, manage, grow, and swap crypto from within Brave.

Brave partners with Solana to integrate it into the browser and make it the default for DApp support

Nov 8, 2021

Brave will integrate the Solana blockchain, providing default Solana ecosystem support to Brave's 42 million MAUs and 1.3 million verified Creators.

Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser

Oct 19, 2021

Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.

Challenger Brands Take Over Season 3 of The Brave Marketer Podcast

Oct 18, 2021

Marketers from challenger brands unveil the strategies and tactics behind the risks they’ve taken in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer Podcast.

Debouncing

Oct 14, 2021

Brave is releasing additional protections against certain forms of bounce tracking. We call these new protections "debouncing". As of desktop version 1.32, Brave will protect users against bounce tracking by recognizing when the user is about to visit a known tracking domain, skipping visiting the tracking site all together, and instead directly navigating the user to the intended destination.