Verifiably Private Computation
Feb 13, 2023
An overview of how Brave is able to process sensitive data without actually seeing the data, while also empowering users to verify our claims.
Privacy by Design: Published Proxy Config
Jan 27, 2023
How we publish cloud service configuration data so users can verify we can’t track them.
Towards a safer signing experience on Brave Wallet
Oct 26, 2022
Signing DApp transactions for EVM chains is a security nightmare. We are excited to debut a smarter signing experience on Brave Swap for all EVM transactions.
AMA with Peter Snyder
Sep 15, 2021
The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features guests from the Brave/BAT team. The most recent AMA took place on August 18th with Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher and Director of Privacy at Brave.
Building and releasing the Brave browser to tens of millions of users
Jun 25, 2021
Our user base has grown by more than 10x these past years, recently passing 32 million monthly active users, and if you add the increasing number of platforms, channels, and architectures to the mix, then our build and release capacity had to scale 100x.
Using Federated Learning to Improve Brave’s On-Device Recommendations While Protecting Your Privacy
Jun 8, 2021
We propose a new privacy-first framework to solve recommendation by integrating federated learning with differential privacy. This work on private federated recommendation is only one example of how we intend to leverage federated learning with privacy on the Brave browser in the future.
THEMIS RFC&C Wrap Up
May 26, 2021
We received 10 RFC&C proposals from teams focusing on both L1 and L2 tech that brought practical insights on how to improve the original THEMISv2 protocol spec. In this blogpost, we’ll dive into each of the received proposals and provide pointers for the material each team submitted for the RFC&C.
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.
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.
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.
Brave Private Content Delivery Network
Dec 10, 2020
Brave is a company where privacy isn’t just a feature; it’s a requirement. This is perhaps most obvious in the Brave Browser, where we block trackers, prevent fingerprinting, and include a privacy-preserving, opt-in and user-first ad-system, but Brave’s focus on privacy goes far beyond the browser.
How we Choose and Rank Content in Brave News
Dec 10, 2020
We’re using Brave’s new private CDN to fetch RSS feeds anonymously and the browser’s personalization capabilities to rank headlines with a simple algorithm that will make the experience interesting for everyone.
AMA with Brian Clifton
Nov 19, 2020
In our recent AMA we were joined by Brian Clifton, VP of Engineering at Brave, who spent the afternoon fielding both pre-submitted and live questions from the Community on Reddit.
AMA with Luke Mulks
Nov 5, 2020
We were joined on October 7th by Luke Mulks, Director of Business Development at Brave, who spent the afternoon fielding both pre-submitted and live questions from the Community on Reddit.
AMA with Christopher
Oct 6, 2020
We were joined for our most recent AMA by Christopher, who is better-known in the BAT/Brave community and on Reddit as bat-chriscat, Technical Operations Coordinator at Brave.
THEMIS: Towards a Decentralized Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity (Part 1)
Jun 25, 2020
Brave Research presents THEMIS, a private-by-design ad platform that makes a significant and important step toward decentralizing the ad ecosystem.
Johnny Ryan’s privacy keynote for P&G
Jun 15, 2020
Procter & Gamble invited Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave to give a (remote) keynote about how advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future.
Guest AMA with Kindhumans
May 20, 2020
The most recent AMA took place on May 13th, and featured guests Justin “Hoost” Wilkenfeld, Suzi Wilkenfeld, and Dan I. Sack from Kindhumans, a non-profit on a mission to make kindness a viral phenomenon, and to unite and grow the community of kind humans around the world.
Mjolnir: Tooling for BAT Apollo
May 11, 2020
Mjolnir is a tool for easily deploying and benchmarking Permissioned Ethereum Blockchain implementations.
