Developers & community

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.

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.

Guest AMA with Matthew Liu & Nick Poulden of Origin

Apr 20, 2020

The most recent AMA took place on April 16th, and featured guests Matthew Liu (Co-founder) and Nick Poulden (Senior Engineer) at Origin.

Brave 1.0 Performance: Methodology and Results

Jan 21, 2020

Keeping the web open to everyone with built-in privacy protections and significant efficiency gains. This blog was written by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researchers at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. In 2019, Brave reached a major milestone with the release of the 1.0 version. As ever, web browsing performance is a key priority for Brave, so we set out to evaluate in detail how it stacks up against the competition and devised a methodology for doing so. In our “1.0 reviewer guide”, we summarized the significant savings Brave users can expect. In the spirit of transparency, we here present our methodology and detailed results.

Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (P3A)

Aug 22, 2019

Most of the software you use includes some sort of product analytics, or usage data collection, as does every major browser. And for good reason — knowing which features are resonating and which need work is an important part of making software that’s a pleasure to use.

Guest AMA with Alex Wilson & Patrick Duffy of The Giving Block

Jul 22, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on July 17th, and featured guests Alex Wilson and Patrick Duffy, Co-founders of The Giving Block.

Guest AMA with Taylor Monahan & Jordan Spence of MyCrypto

Jun 27, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on June 25th, and featured guests Taylor Monahan (Founder and CEO) and Jordan Spence (CMO) of MyCrypto.

Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance by 69x with New Engine Implementation in Rust

Jun 26, 2019

Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.

AMA with Marshall Rose

Jun 20, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on June 19th and featured Marshall Rose, Principal Engineer at Brave. Marshall fielded both pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors concerning a variety of topics, such as the differences between BAT Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, the three work phases outlined in BAT Roadmap 1.0