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Brave at Mobile World Congress #MWC19

Mar 7, 2019

Last week, Brave attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and unveiled its experiential booth to explain how it’s reinventing online advertising with its global ad platform built on privacy. Check out Brendan Eich’s showfloor interview with Mobile World Live for...

AMA with Ben Livshits

Feb 21, 2019

Welcome to the thirteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an...

Earn Basic Attention Token, or BAT, With Coinbase Earn

Feb 6, 2019

In an effort to make BAT easier to use and easier to understand, Brave Software is working with Coinbase Earn, a product that allows users to earn utility tokens by viewing and completing educational tasks. $5 million, denominated in BAT, is being designated for this...

AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky

Jan 31, 2019

Welcome to the twelfth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...

AMA with Tom Lowenthal

Jan 17, 2019

Welcome to the eleventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...

AMA with Ryan Watson and Kamil Jozwiak

Dec 13, 2018

Welcome to the tenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

AMA with Alex Wykoff

Nov 29, 2018

Welcome to the ninth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

“Best of the Brave” Video Contest Winners Are Rewarded with 115K BAT

Nov 27, 2018

On September 26, we launched a video contest for Brave-verified online publishers and creators. Participants were asked to upload a video to YouTube in order to celebrate our recent milestone of 4 million monthly active users and explain why they’re excited about our...

AMA with Luke Mulks

Nov 26, 2018

Welcome to the eighth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

AMA with Brian Brown

Nov 15, 2018

Welcome to the seventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...

AMA with Sampson

Nov 1, 2018

Welcome to the sixth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Brave Sponsors Cal Hacks 5.0, the World’s Largest Collegiate Hackathon

Oct 31, 2018

Prizes Available for Participants who Create a Brave Browser Extension From November 2-4, 2018, Brave will be at U.C. Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium as one of Cal Hacks’ sponsors, alongside leading technology companies. Brave is helping to connect 2,000...

AMA with Yan Zhu

Oct 19, 2018

Welcome to the fifth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

AMA with David Temkin

Oct 5, 2018

Welcome to the fourth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing

Sep 27, 2018

Today we’re releasing the first beta version of our upcoming Brave 1.0 browser for testing on our new Brave Beta Channel. This beta is a work in progress for developers and users who would like to see our latest advances. On September 6th, we released the first...

Brave Launches 100K BAT “Best of the Brave” Video Contest for Online Creators and Publishers

Sep 26, 2018

Brave recently passed the 4 million bar of monthly active users (MAU), and has over 21,000 Verified Publishers. We’re celebrating this MAU milestone by inviting our community of creators and publishers to produce a short video about it, as well as why they’re excited...

AMA with Johnny Ryan

Sep 6, 2018

Welcome to the third post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series, which will run until January 2019, is twofold: to give fans...

AMA with Brian Bondy

Aug 23, 2018

On August 16th, the BAT Community successfully kicked off an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) series with CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich. The series, scheduled to run from August 2018 through January 2019, features several different guests from the Brave team every month and...

AMA with Brendan Eich

Aug 17, 2018

On August 16th, BAT Community hosted the first in an upcoming series of AMAs (Ask Me Anything!) with Brendan Eich in the r/BATProject subreddit. Over the course of the AMA, Brendan answered a mix of pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors about Brave and the...

QUIC in the wild

Apr 25, 2017

Update: This post has been edited to correct errors of fact about developer tools and APIs with respect to QUIC. Also, the original post implied that Google might be using QUIC in an anti-competitive manner. We regret the errors, and we apologize for the implication....

Unpublishing Link Bubble

Mar 11, 2017

Today we are unpublishing Link Bubble from the Google Play Store. To our loyal Link Bubble users, rest assured: if you have installed Link Bubble, you can continue to use it. The code will remain open source, so you can build, customize, and install it if you like....

Loading Chrome Extensions in Brave

Jan 17, 2017

*This post is outdated. To find the most recent guide for using extensions in Brave, visit this page.Brave appeared on the scene last year and was quick to make a name for itself. Out of the box, Brave users enjoy fewer ads and trackers online. Brave also includes...

#BeBraveDay

Apr 8, 2016

We've been busy at Brave building a solution designed to give users and publishers the fair deal they deserve on the Web. Today we're releasing our 0.9 developer version, which delivers what thousands have been asking for: the beginning of support for Chrome...

Brave’s Payment Spec Out for Developer Input

Mar 31, 2016

UPDATE: some details in this post are obsolete; please see [new post] At Brave Software, we love browsers. We love using them and we love coding them. As the user interface to the Web, we know how important browsers are to the Internet. And – if you've been following...

How to Fix the Web

Jan 20, 2016

The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will always be...