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Welcome to the Brave blog, your front page for feature releases, privacy enhancements, company updates, info for advertisers, and more.
Jun 19, 2018
We’ve been busy building our new Basic Attention Token (BAT) platform, which includes a new consent-based digital advertising model that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers.
Jun 6, 2018
Today, we are starting a monthly giveaway of about 500,000 USD in promotional Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) to Brave desktop browser users on a first come, first serve basis.
May 25, 2018
This week, Brave unveiled new research that is under submission to an upcoming conference regarding how to improve and automate ad blocking with AdGraph, a graph-based machine learning approach for detecting ads and trackers on a given web page.
May 16, 2018
Today we released a new desktop version of Brave (0.22.714) which features significant performance improvements for users who typically use many tabs and windows.
May 11, 2018
Last week, Brave gave multiple presentations in a flash tour across Asia and signed a lease for new space for its London office.
May 3, 2018
Brave, which is combining an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Townsquare Media, Inc. announced today that they are partnering to enable Townsquare to re-engage ad-blocking users.
Apr 27, 2018
Brave is excited to announce partnerships with Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco as we continue our mission of providing a better deal for online creators.
Apr 18, 2018
Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.
Apr 12, 2018
Today we are distributing the first part of our Million Dollar referral program directly to online publishers and content creators. Brave will now transfer accrued BAT to publishers and creators on a recurring monthly basis.
Mar 28, 2018
The Brave 1.0 browser for desktop operating systems is coming later this year and it will include several significant improvements that we’d like to share now.
Mar 24, 2018
In January, we announced that we’d distribute $1 million worth of promotional BAT (Basic Attention Token) via user grants to Brave desktop browser wallets — ultimately to be contributed to website publishers and YouTube creators via Brave Payments.
Mar 1, 2018
Today we’re announcing that Twitch streamers can earn revenue in connection with the Brave browser. As part of our commitment to Twitch, we have added up to an additional $1 million to our referral program for creators.
Feb 27, 2018
Today Brave is proud to announce its corporate sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA).
Feb 15, 2018
Brave Software, which is combining an innovative browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that it is launching an up to Million Dollar referral program to reward online publishers and YouTube creators.
Feb 1, 2018
As part of our effort to make the Basic Attention Token platform even more efficient and easy to use for our thousands of verified sites and content creators, we recently upgraded our Publishers website to allow a single publisher account to manage multiple properties.
Jan 31, 2018
Today we’re releasing a desktop browser update with highly-awaited features and performance improvements, as well as multiple fixes for issues reported by our user community.
Jan 24, 2018
We’re pleased to report that nearly 100,000 grants of our Million Dollar promotional Basic Attention Token (BAT) giveaway have already been claimed.
Jan 17, 2018
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our $1M BAT giveaway so our users can support their favorite sites and content creators.
Jan 12, 2018
We would like to take a moment to thank all of our users and supporters for an amazing 2017, and we look forward to welcoming what is sure to be an exciting 2018.
Dec 20, 2017
Welcome to the first edition of our development blog detailing the progression of work being done at Brave Software.
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