In June 2018, Brave released a pay-to-surf test-version of the browser.

On 20 January 2016, Brave Software launched the first version of Brave with ad-blocking capabilities and announced plans for a privacy-respecting ad platform.

On, CEO Brendan Eich and CTO Brian Bondy founded Brave Software. Īs of August 2022, Brave claims to have more than 57.42 million monthly active users, 19.3 million daily active users and a network of more than 1.6 million content creators. īrave Software's headquarters are in San Francisco, California. Users can then send contributions to websites and content creators, which support BAT in the form of tips along with the ability to keep the cryptocurrency they earned. It also provides users the choice to turn on optional ads that pay users for their attention in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks website trackers in its default settings.

X86-64, IA-32 (Windows only), ARM (Mac only)īrave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc.

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