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Coins
You Can Now Move Brave Browser Rewards On-Chain With a Solana Wallet
Brave, the company behind the privacy-focused Brave browser, is bringing on-chain Solana payments with its long-time Brave Rewards program, the company announced on Thursday. The on-chain Solana feature, Brave said, will allow Brave browser users to transfer BAT tokens from their local machines to a self-custody Solana wallet, without involving a centralized exchange. “We chose Solana as the ideal network for the launch of on-chain Brave Rewards given its high transaction speed and low fees, whi...
Aug 3, 2023
Technology
Brave's New Image and Video Search Doesn't Rely on Google or Bing
Privacy-focused internet browser firm Brave announced on Thursday the launch of its latest feature—a custom image and video search feature that doesn’t rely on Google or Microsoft’s Bing to serve up media. Brave says search results will now only serve images and video results from its own index, removing the need for users to choose between Bing or Google for such assets when using the crypto-friendly web browser. “It was always our intent to be 100% independent from Big Tech, but we built this...
Nov 26, 2021
Markets
Basic Attention Token Defies Wider Crypto Market Rout, Hits All-Time High
The market capitalization of the entire crypto industry has plummeted in the past 24 hours, falling from $2.8 trillion to roughly $2.5 trillion. And though leading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have both seen their prices tumble, one token is showing surprising resilience: BAT. Basic Attention Token (BAT) is currently up 9.9%, at press time, after hitting an all-time high of $1.81 earlier this morning. The cryptocurrency is currently trading at $1.52, according to CoinGecko. BAT is...
Nov 9, 2021
Markets
Basic Attention Token Up 25% Following Brave's Solana Integration
Basic Attention Token (BAT), the cryptocurrency of privacy-centric browser Brave, has shot up more than 25% in the last 24 hours. BAT's 25.7% surge follows yesterday's announcement that the Brave browser will integrate with Solana, the fourth most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap. According to a blog post shared on Brave's website, the integration will see Solana become the default blockchain for decentralized app (dapp) support within the browser, because of its high speeds and low costs....
Nov 8, 2021
Technology
Privacy Browser Brave Expands Beyond Ethereum to Solana
Privacy-centric crypto browser Brave today announced an integration with Solana, the cryptocurrency network behind the market's fourth-most valuable coin. Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, said, “With more and more users and creators requiring tools for fast and affordable access to the decentralized Web, this integration will seamlessly pave the way for the next billion crypto users to harness applications and tokens.” Brave is turning to Solana due to the crypto network’s high speeds and low cos...
Aug 31, 2021
Technology
Brave Users Have a New Way to Cash Out Their BAT After Viewing Ads
Privacy browser Brave has long believed that if web users are subjected to ads, they should be compensated. While using Brave, each ad that customers agree to watch nets them a small amount of Basic Attention Token (BAT), Brave's own cryptocurrency. You can recirculate that BAT to content providers you enjoy or, being the greedy crypto user you no doubt are, you can trade it for cash or other assets. A new integration makes both easier. Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Wi...
Jun 23, 2021
Technology
Brave Takes on Google With Launch of Private Search Engine
Privacy-focused browser developer Brave has launched its own search engine, the imaginatively named Brave Search. The beta version of the search engine is now available to all Brave users as a search option on desktop, Android, and iOS, and is available for other browsers at search.brave.com. First announced in March 2021, Brave Search is based on the Tailcat project. Tailcat was developed by the team behind the now-defunct Cliqz search engine and was acquired by Brave earlier this year. The new...
Mar 3, 2021
Technology
Brave Takes Aim at Google, Set to Launch Privacy-First Search Engine
Brave, the privacy-first, crypto-friendly web browser, is gearing up to launch a search engine later this year. Brave Search is the company’s attempt to take a bite out of Google’s dominance—currently, Google’s search engine has 92% market share. In a press release, the company said it’s building the search function around a recent acquisition: a project called Tailcat, which was developed by the team behind the now-defunct Cliqz search engine. Brave Search will be powered by Tailcat’s own indep...
Feb 19, 2021
Technology
Brave Is Leaking Browsing History From Anonymous Tor Browser
Brave, a Chromium-based, privacy-first browser that integrates the anonymous Tor web browser, has been leaking private .onion addresses to domain name system providers. Tor obscures users’ web browsing activity by bouncing web traffic across a global network of relays. That makes it near-impossible to trace a user’s web history, making the browser a perfect home for anyone in need of privacy: mostly activists, dark web drug barons and hackers. But the bug, addressed in a beta and soon-to-be-...
Jan 19, 2021
Technology
How to Use the Uncensorable Web on Privacy Browser Brave
Since launching in 2018, Brave has built a loyal following by giving Web users what they want: more privacy and fewer ads. Now, it’s letting users give back by making the internet more censorship-resistant. The privacy-centric Brave browser has tucked a nifty new integration into today’s software update that lets Brave users view content via the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Our CTO and co-founder @brianbondy details the work our team has done for the first deep @IPFS integration of its ki...
Dec 31, 2020
Business
Brave Crypto Browser Now Supports Apple's M1 Macs
Crypto-powered browser Brave has rolled out a new version of its desktop browser, adding native support for Apple's new M1 Mac processor. The v1.18.77 update sees Brave join rival browsers Chrome and Firefox in supporting Apple's ARM-based M1 system on a chip; a version of Microsoft's Edge browser with M1 support is also available in its Canary release channel. Our last desktop browser update of the year (v1.18.77) features native support for M1 Macs, a localization fix for Brave Rewards, and f...
Nov 2, 2020
Business
Crypto Browser Brave Hits 20 Million Monthly Users
Crypto-friendly privacy browser Brave today announced that it has passed 20 million monthly active users and 7 million daily active users. That’s a 2.3x increase from this time last year, when it reported 8.7 million monthly active users and 3 million daily active users. Brave is a Chromium-based browser with crypto baked in. Instead of lining Google’s pockets, Brave pays you in BAT, its ERC-20 based cryptocurrency token, when you watch web advertisements. Brave's user base is going up. Image:...
Oct 19, 2020
Technology
Top Crypto Game Splinterlands Now Supports Brave’s BAT Token
Privacy-centric and crypto-friendly web browser Brave today announced a partnership with blockchain-based competitive card game Splinterlands, which will see the two allies collaborate on marketing initiatives and integrations across the two products. Brave will be the official web browser of Splinterlands, with the developers planning content to detail the benefits of the browser while also recommending that players use Brave to play the web-based game. On the other end, Brave will begin showi...
Oct 9, 2020
Business
Brave Is Now the Top-Rated Browser on Google Play Store
Privacy-centric browser Brave has soared past competitors on the Google Play Store, becoming the top-rated browser and leaving Google's own Chrome browser in the dust. With a rating of 4.8 stars out of 5 from over 238,000 total reviews, Brave has gained a serious advantage over the competition, edging out Chrome, Firefox, and many others by a noticeable margin. "Brave on Android is now the top rated browser on the PlayStore," tweeted Des Martin, head of marketing at Brave. "Ahead of Chrome (4.1...
Oct 5, 2020
Business
Privacy Browser Brave Now Available From the Dark Web
The crypto-friendly web browser Brave today announced another integration with the privacy-first gateway to the dark web, Tor: it’s made its Brave pages viewable from the dark web. Tor is a browser that lets you access .onion links. This is the so-called dark web, on which lie black markets filled with the best illegal drugs Bitcoin can buy. But the dark web isn’t just black markets and Bitcoin; it’s also used by activists, researchers, and journalists in parts of the world with restrictive Int...
Sep 8, 2020
Technology
Brave Browser Now Protects You From Crypto Phishing Scams
Brave, the privacy-centric web browser that blocks ad tracking and awards users its Basic Attention Token (BAT), announced today that it has further beefed up its security with the addition of anti-phishing tools. The browser now implements the open-source technology of PhishFort, an anti-phishing and brand protection firm. PhishFort is already partnered with crypto companies such as Binance Labs and MyEtherWallet, and has been at the forefront of detecting and spreading the word about Web3 phis...
Jul 9, 2020
Business
Brave forces rival browser 'Braver' to change its name
A fork of the popular cryptocurrency-powered web browser, Brave, today changed its name after facing legal threats. Braver, which forked from Brave back in June, is now named Bold Browser after a member of the project’s team was threatened with financial harm, the team behind the browser said in a tweet today. The dispute stemmed from the fact that “Braver” looks and sounds a little too much like “Brave.” Due to legal threats sent to one of our community members by a certain party, specificall...
Jun 24, 2020
Technology
How crypto can help make Andrew Yang's ‘data dividend’ a reality
Former presidential candidate and crypto advocate Andrew Yang took to the op-ed pages of the LA Times on Tuesday to lay out his vision for how to make companies pay for their users’ data. And lucky for Yang and his acolytes, there are crypto startups already working to make this happen. In his op-ed, Yang announced the creation of a public-benefit corporation, the Data Dividend Project, which aims to help enable people to control the use of their data and allow for compensation of approved use o...
Jun 9, 2020
Coins
Developers are forking Brave to remove affiliate links
A group of developers has decided to launch a fork of the Brave Browser to remove all affiliate links, adware, and even the Basic Attention Token (BAT). This will create an alternative version of the browser, that users can choose to switch to. Brave browser is a privacy-first browser. Image: Shutterstock. The move follows the revelation that Brave users were being sent to in-built affiliate links for crypto exchanges, such as Binance, whenever they began to type the name of the exchange into th...
Jun 3, 2020
Technology
Joe Rogan uses the crypto-friendly privacy browser Brave
Privacy-centric and crypto-friendly web browser Brave’s fan base keeps surging, and the company can count podcast host Joe Rogan and musician Reggie Watts amongst its users. Rogan mentioned Brave during the most recent episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast, posted yesterday. As seen in a clip shared to r/CryptoCurrency, episode guest Watts said that he will sometimes use Brave to explore products from sponsored ads without worrying about his browsing being tracked. In response, Rogan affi...