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BAT Roadmap 2.0: Update 1

Apr 7, 2021

At Brave, we want to make crypto usable and defi accessible for everyone, and towards that end we are excited to share the progress we have made since we published the BAT Roadmap 2.0 in February 2021.

Brave News now lets users add RSS feeds to customize their favorite content

Apr 5, 2021

Brave News, the privacy-preserving news reader integrated into the Brave browser, now features RSS feeds for users. This option is available today with Brave’s iOS app update (v1.24), and coming soon to the Brave desktop browser.

Brave and Gala Games Unveil Their Second Physical NFT Collectible

Mar 30, 2021

During a recent livestream AMA broadcast, Brave and Gala Games revealed a second upcoming collectible NFT collaboration: the Brave x Gala Games Farm Bot Pickaxe Physical NFT, coming exclusively to the Brave Swag Store on April 1st, 2021.

Announcing The Brave Marketer Podcast

Mar 29, 2021

The world is waking up to the power of crypto. We'll cover topics like: NFTs, DeFi, wallets, DAOs, Web3, Layer 1 protocols, privacy, and the creator economy.

AMA with Ben Livshits and Gonçalo Pestana

Mar 25, 2021

Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist) and Gonçalo Pestana (Sr. Research Engineer) from Brave participated in the latest Ask Me Anything on r/BATProject.

Brave (BAT) Joins the BSC Ecosystem To Accelerate DeFi Adoption

Mar 19, 2021

Basic Attention Token (BAT) is now also available on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) as wrapped BAT. BAT holders can use numerous bridges that connect Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain to participate in the DeFi ecosystem on BSC.

Brave Sponsors Upcoming Tournament in Gala Games’ Agricultural Simulation Game, Town Star, With $5000 in BAT

Mar 11, 2021

Brave and Gala Games are teaming up again, this time to bring fans the first-ever BAT Tournament in Gala Games’ Town Star, the blockchain-based agricultural simulation game from one of the founders of Zynga and some of the creative minds behind FarmVille and Words With Friends.

Brave and dentsu international Show that Advertisers’ Messages Resonate with Ad Choosers

Mar 10, 2021

New whitepaper provides overview of privacy-preserving digital campaigns where Brave Ads served to “Ad Choosers” outperformed those compared to publishers with more traditional ad models.

THEMIS RFC&C: Update #2

Mar 9, 2021

The THEMIS RFC&C event, which started early February, has brought independent researchers and over 10 companies together with the Brave research team to comment and propose directions for the future of the Brave Ads protocol.

Comparing the Network Behavior of Popular Browsers on First-Run

Mar 8, 2021

You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security.

Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop

Mar 3, 2021

Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.

Brave and Splinterlands Announce Upcoming BAT Tournaments, Discounts When Using BAT for Land Purchases in Splinterlands, and Limited NFTs

Mar 2, 2021

In October of 2020, Brave announced a partnership with Splinterlands, the most popular blockchain game. Brave and Splinterlands both share a similar mission of rewarding users for their time and attention, as well as increasing their privacy on the Web.

BAT Roadmap 2.0

Feb 22, 2021

Capitalizing on our user base and the success we have had with BAT adoption, we intend to make crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible and usable for everyone through the following efforts.

Brave Introduces Support for NFT Purchases on the Brave Swag Store, Powered by Origin

Feb 18, 2021

We are excited to introduce support for NFT purchases on the Brave Swag Store. The new implementation allows customers to purchase Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), such as limited-edition digital collectibles tokenized on the blockchain…

AMA with Brave and IPFS

Feb 8, 2021

The ongoing AMA series is an opportunity for our users and fans to get to know the Brave team, and, as of recently, guests from Brave’s partners.

THEMIS RFC&C Update

Feb 8, 2021

A month ago we announced an RFC&C for the THEMIS protocol which is meant to progressively decentralize the Brave/BAT Ads infrastructure, while providing users and advertisers with the ability to verify that the protocol is properly computing user rewards.