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we are showing serious strength now. that 120 mil day was key
BAT GOES EXPONENTIALLY TO $2+
BOOOOOM!
TONIGHT!!!!$2 TO $5
Privacy Browser Brave Expands Beyond Ethereum to Solana
Brave and Solana Labs today announced a joint integration which will see the privacy browser add support for Solana wallets early next year.
By Liam J. Kelly
3 min read
Nov 8, 2021
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 costs, according to a company blog post. Unlike other smart contract-enabled blockchains such as Ethereum, simple transactions on Solana cost as little as 0.000005 SOL, or $0.001, per data from Solana Beach.
The low fees could potentially make interacting with crypto, specifically Eich’s projected “next billion crypto users,” far more attractive.
The move could prove just as beneficial for the Solana ecosystem, as Brave currently boasts 42 million monthly active users. Once the integration is complete in the first half of 2022, millions of Brave users will be exposed to a variety of new Solana decentralized applications, or dapps.
“Deep integration with browsers is key to helping dapps build the best web experiences. Brave’s announcement of Solana wallet support across all versions of their browsers is an important step to onboard the next billion users to Solana,” said Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs, in a press release.
According to data pulled from App Figures, Brave is also currently the third-most downloaded internet browser, after Opera and Google's Chrome. Brave is built using the same free and open-source codebase as Chrome.
The announcement has been particularly bullish for Brave’s Ethereum-based token, the Basic Attention Token (BAT). At the moment, BAT is up more than 19% on the day, according to CoinGecko.
Solana’s native crypto, SOL, meanwhile is down slightly today—a 1.3% dip—after rising above a record-breaking $260 per coin over the weekend.
Solana’s breakout year
Solana has had a breakout year in 2021. On January 1, the cryptocurrency was trading at less than $2. Today, SOL is now trading at $249.
The booming NFT collectibles space and the growth of DeFi products—the sort that allow for trading, borrowing, and lending services without third-party intermediaries like banks—have been primary drivers behind the network’s success.
Last month, for instance, the total value locked on DeFi projects built on Solana hit a record-breaking $12.7 billion, with projects like Raydium, Marinade Finance, and Serum all leading the way. Emerging DeFi projects are also attracting big money from big-brand investors.
https://decrypt.co/85538/privacy-browser-brave-expands-beyond-ethereum-solana?
Brave partners with Solana to integrate it into the browser and make it the default for DApp support
https://brave.com/solana-partnership/
oh ya that worked nice good one
Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser
by BraveOct 19, 2021Announcements, Community, New Features
Brave also debuts its opt-in Web Discovery Project to anonymously crowdsource improvements to Brave Search
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. Privacy-preserving Brave Search now replaces Google as the default search engine used in the address bar for new Brave users in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; Brave Search as default also replaces Qwant in France, and DuckDuckGo in Germany, with more geographies to be added in the next several months. Existing Brave users will keep their chosen search engine default, and can set Brave Search as the default search engine in Brave or most other major browsers.
Today’s Brave desktop browser update (version 1.31), as well as the Brave Android app (version 1.31)* and the Brave iOS app (version 1.32) all automatically offer Brave Search as the default for new users in these five countries, with fully localized versions in non-English geographies. Brave users can easily choose a different search option if they prefer by managing their search engine settings. Brave Search is also available in any other browser at search.brave.com.
Brave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free Premium version in the near future.
“Brave Search has grown significantly since its release last June, with nearly 80 million queries per month. Our users are pleased with the comprehensive privacy solution that Brave Search provides against Big Tech by being integrated into our browser,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave. “As we know from experience in many browsers, the default setting is crucial for adoption, and Brave Search has reached the quality and critical mass needed to become our default search option, and to offer our users a seamless privacy-by-default online experience.”
Brave Search is also launching the Web Discovery Project (WDP), a privacy-preserving system for users to anonymously contribute data to improve Brave Search coverage and quality, and its independence and competitiveness against Big Tech alternatives. The WDP is a strictly opt-in feature and protects user privacy and anonymity by design, so that contributed data cannot be linked to individuals or their devices, and cannot be linked together for a user or set of users; this prevents deanonymization.
The WDP represents a fundamental shift in how a search index is built to serve relevant results for users. It is a major step forward from the typical server-side aggregation used by the industry. Big Tech search providers collect data from users without asking or notifying users, to continuously grow their indexes—the list of billions of web pages they draw from to deliver results—and to ensure results are relevant and never stale. This data can be, and often is, associated with users personally by an identifier or linkable records. Unlike those search providers, the Web Discovery Project is designed so that all data received is unlinkable, making it impossible to build profiles or sessions of Web Discovery Project contributors. This means there’s no data for Brave to sell to advertisers, or lose to theft or hacking, or hand over to government agencies, allowing us to keep promises through technology rather than slogans.
The system contributes anonymous search and browsing data made within the Brave browser from users who have opted in. This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensures Brave Search shows results relevant to search queries. For a URL to be sent, it needs to be visited independently by a large number of people; this is achieved by using the novel STAR cryptographic protocol. The WDP’s privacy-preserving methodology discards search queries that are too long or suspicious looking. It also discards odd URLs (such as capability URLs), URLs of pages that the creator defined as non-indexable, and of course pages that are not public or that require any sort of authentication. The Web Discovery Project runs automatically while a user is browsing the web, so it requires no effort on the part of contributors. Users who have opted in but no longer wish to participate can opt out at any time.
For more technical details, an overview of the Web Discovery Project can be found on Brave’s GitHub repo.
Brave Search is part of the suite of privacy-preserving tools offered by Brave, as millions of users are turning to alternatives to big tech. Brave also offers Brave Ads, Brave News, a Firewall+VPN service, and the recently-released Brave Talk for unlimited, private video calls.
About Brave:
Brave Software’s fast, privacy-oriented browser, combined with its blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is reinventing the Web for users, publishers, and advertisers. Users get a private, speedier web experience with much longer battery life, publishers increase their revenue share, and advertisers achieve better conversion. Users can opt into privacy-respecting ads that reward them with the Basic Attention Token (BAT), a frequent flyer-like token they can redeem or use to tip or contribute to publishers and other content creators. The Brave solution is a win-win for everyone who has a stake in the open Web and who is weary of giving up privacy and revenue to the ad-tech intermediaries. Brave currently has over 38 million monthly active users and over 1.2 million Verified Publishers. Brave Software was co-founded by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla (Firefox), and Brian Bondy, formerly of Khan Academy and Mozilla.
For more information, visit https://brave.com/ or follow the company on Twitter @brave.
* pending approval from the Play Store.
https://brave.com/search-and-web-discovery/
big fan of Moore's Law. I like more upside as well.
what about bat/eth :D
Newssssssss!!!! Brave replaces google!!
Congrats!!!!! Should see a nice $1.50 run
Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser
by BraveOct 19, 2021Announcements, Community, New Features
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. Privacy-preserving Brave Search now replaces Google as the default search engine used in the address bar for new Brave users in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; Brave Search as default also replaces Qwant in France, and DuckDuckGo in Germany, with more geographies to be added in the next several months. Existing Brave users will keep their chosen search engine default, and can set Brave Search as the default search engine in Brave or most other major browsers.
Today’s Brave desktop browser update (version 1.31), as well as the Brave Android app (version 1.31)* and the Brave iOS app (version 1.32) all automatically offer Brave Search as the default for new users in these five countries, with fully localized versions in non-English geographies. Brave users can easily choose a different search option if they prefer by managing their search engine settings. Brave Search is also available in any other browser at search.brave.com.
Challenger Brands Take Over Season 3 of The Brave Marketer Podcast
|by Brave |Oct 18, 2021 |Announcements, Community
Marketers from challenger brands unveil the strategies and tactics behind the risks they’ve taken in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer Podcast.
The Brave Marketer podcast launches Season 3 today and puts the spotlight on marketers from challenger brands and agencies to understand how their strategies and tactics differ from the larger, more established brands. This season you’ll hear from the marketers behind AngelList, CrunchBase, Cult, eToro, Three Wishes and more!
In the last two seasons, the Brave Marketer Podcast featured guests from leading global companies such as P&G, Disney, Fiverr, HP, and Duolingo, and agencies like Publicis, Dentsu, and OMD.
Our first two seasons were a huge success resulting in:
* Over 25,000 unique podcast listeners
* A global reach with listeners in 138 countries
* Ranking in the top 5-10% of all podcasts based on downloads per week
The standout themes from Season 2 were:
* All things NFT: Marketing, Investments and Future Opportunities
* Experimenting with Virtual Gaming
* The Impulse Economy and the Total Collapse of the Funnel
* Measuring and Rewarding Attention in Personalized Ways
Today, we’re launching the first episode of Season 3 of The Brave Marketer podcast, featuring an interview with Helen Min, Head of Marketing at AngelList, who discusses her ongoing experimentation with new marketing channels and her commitment to creating a culture that rewards curiosity across her team.
You can listen to the trailer for Season 3 here:
https://brave.com/brave-marketer-season-3/
Windows 11 kills easy path for changing your default browser — Brave and Firefox fight back
"Brave's v1.30.86 update addresses Microsoft's Edge interception scheme by using EdgeDeflector-influenced code. Firefox may do the same with an upcoming update."
https://www.laptopmag.com/news/windows-11-kills-easy-path-for-changing-your-default-browser-brave-and-firefox-fight-back
In case you hadn't heard:
Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader Integrated Into the Browser
https://brave.com/announcing-brave-today/
Wow, good news thistraderknowsall....
Here's a 1 min. video on the new brave video conferencing (free BTW):
https://youtu.be/l0aWoHApbs0[/url][tag]insert-text-here
BAT altcoin Brave news!!!!!
Unlike Zoom and Google Meet, Brave Talk is a piece of new video conferencing software that aims to provide better privacy than its competitors.
We expect BAT to surge past $5
On these developments.
Congrats!!!
Brave Browser lives up to its name, picks one more fight with Google
They're going to try to make a video chat platform
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/09/22/brave-browser-thinks-were-looking-for-yet-another-video-conferencing-platform/
Very impressive growth for that one year! Also nice chart...I wonder what they can do to add value to their Token, like they obviously accomplish with their main business?
You should keep an eye on Brave browser's daily active users.(DAU)
https://bravebat.info/brave_browser_active_users
Why?
"Metcalfe's Law. Simply put, it says that the value of a communications network is proportional to the square of the number of its (active) users.
The law is said to be true for any type of communications network, whether it involves telephones, computers, or users of the World Wide Web.
While the notion of “value” is inevitably somewhat vague, the idea is that a network is more valuable the more people you can call or write to or the more Web pages you can link to."
Basic Metcalfe's law, modified by Serge Bloch then says as active users of a "web browser" linearly. the value of that service goes up exponentially; n log(n)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/metcalfes-law-is-wrong
Brave Passes 36 Million Monthly Active Users
https://brave.com/36m-mau/
I read and watched the videos https://brave.com/?ref=pen744 one time and left Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari for good, I didn't hesitate
MSFT spams me every day on one of my Windows computers to make Edge my default browser, I have to take some time one of these days and figure out how to stop that annoying crap every time I open my browser, I'm extremely happy that I got rid of all those spamming ads by Chrome / Goog as well.
just takes people time to use and step out of there comfort zone
it has been, is, and will continue to be....cheers
BRAVE BROWSER/BATUSD BAT 34,000,000 USERS as of August 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#:~:text=As%20of%20August%202021%2C%20Brave,of%201.2%20million%20content%20creators.
Go BRAVE/BAT https://brave.com/?ref=pen744
Buy on https://www.coinbase.com/price/basic-attention-token
Good article Investors3.
Ads that aren't controlled are no different that junk mail or unsolicited phone calls.
Annoying people with ads on something they don't need or want isn't really a good strategy for marketing.
New Study by MAGNA & Brave Shows That Consumers Are More Likely to Support Brands in Ad Environments Where They Have Control
Study finds that three in four people find privacy protected ads and the option to control the number of ads they see daily appealing
A new study released today by MAGNA and privacy browser Brave, “Delivering Ad Experiences People Want: Challenging the ‘Status Quo’ Ad Value Exchange,” explored how people really feel about the ‘status quo’ ad value exchange, where people receive free content in exchange for being served ads, along with traditional ad tracking. The study found that most people (80%) feel the trade-off is a one-way street. While most people, including Gen Z and Millennials, understand the role online ads play, the majority report negative feelings about ad load (67%) and ad tracking that feels creepy (70%). For this study, MAGNA partnered with Brave, a web browser with a global advertising platform built for privacy that rewards people for their attention.
The study’s main objective was to find out how people really feel about online advertising today, if the ‘status quo’ ad value exchange can be improved, and how well ads can perform in an alternative ad value exchange. The methodology was two pronged. It consisted of an online survey with 1,005 responses among the general population to gauge attitudes towards advertising and various ad value exchanges. In addition, the research included five ad effectiveness studies across MAGNA campaigns that ran on Brave. These surveys included 10,218 respondents and measured brand impact among people exposed to Brave’s privacy respecting ads (that don’t rely on third party cookies). The ad effectiveness testing spanned both US and Canadian markets, measuring ads for a range of brands, including American Express in Canada, and Canada Dry, MINI, Energizer and Simple Mobile in the US.
“The results of the Brave trial underscore the interplay between a compelling value exchange and an authentic approach to consumer privacy and preference,” said Arielle Garcia, Chief Privacy Officer, UM Worldwide. “Consumers are increasingly attuned to the dynamics of the ad-supported internet, and aware of how their data is used to deliver personalization. Empowering people by giving them more control over how their data is used and greater choice over their online ad experience work hand-in-hand to engender trust – the foundation of a fair value exchange.”
Additional findings of the Brave and MAGNA study include:
* Ad tracking and ad load are palpable: People understand the importance of online ads, but incessant tracking and ad load are a considerable issue. The majority (67%) of people feel bombarded by the number of ads on the internet and well over half (60%) feel that they are constantly being tracked by advertisers online.
* Outright ad blocking isn’t the answer: The study found more control (79%) is preferred over outright ad blocking (73%). In addition, 72% of people felt online ads that are presented separately from web content at a convenient time were just as preferred as no ads at all.
* More user control is good for marketers: If people could control their ad load online, 81% reported they would consider taking positive steps that are good for the advertising industry as a whole, including using more ad supported websites without paying for content (66%), support brands they see ads from (61%), and even spend more time online (60%).
* A safe environment allows for high ad interaction: All four brands that participated in the research found 61% to 74% interacted with their online ads when run in a browser offering more control over ad load in a privacy safe environment.
* Privacy respecting ads yield results: MAGNA advertisers who partnered with Brave saw significant increases in key branding metrics including brand association (+15%-+17%), intent to research products online (+30%) and purchase intent (+9%).
“We know that Brave users are more receptive to our privacy-based ads based on their high engagement,” said Donny Dvorin, Brave’s Head of Sales. “This study confirmed both consumer acceptance of Brave’s advertising model and that Brave’s unique approach to advertising drives real business outcomes across many product categories.”
The full study can be found at brave.com/magna-brave-delivering-ad-experiences-people-want.
About Brave:
Brave Software’s fast, privacy-oriented browser, combined with its blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is reinventing the Web for users, publishers, and advertisers. Users get a private, speedier web experience with much longer battery life, publishers increase their revenue share, and advertisers achieve better conversion. Users can opt into privacy-respecting ads that reward them with BAT (Basic Attention Token), a frequent flyer-like token they can redeem or use to tip or contribute to publishers and other content creators. The Brave solution is a win-win for everyone who has a stake in the open Web and who is weary of giving up privacy and revenue to the ad-tech intermediaries. Brave currently has over 33+ million monthly active users and over 1 million Verified Publishers. Brave Software was co-founded by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla (Firefox), and Brian Bondy, formerly of Khan Academy and Mozilla.
For more information, visit brave.com or follow the company on Twitter @brave.
About MAGNA:
MAGNA is the leading global media investment and intelligence company. Our trusted insights, proprietary trials offerings, industry-leading negotiation and unparalleled consultative solutions deliver an actionable marketplace advantage for our clients and subscribers.
We are a team of experts driven by results, integrity and inquisitiveness. We operate across five key competencies, supporting clients and cross-functional teams through partnership, education, accountability, connectivity and enablement. For more information, please visit our website: https://magnaglobal.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
https://brave.com/magna-brave-study/
Since I bought most of my tokens at $0.09-$0.012 and been holding for a few years that would be a gnarly return of my investment..
BAT goes $1+ soon. Great brave web news!!
OOPS....make that 70%. ( Fat figured another one).
Brave browser is growing rapidly. In the last 8 months it grew by 170% in users......Watch out Google
"In November 2020, Brave reported having 20 million monthly users and in February 2021 it passed 25 million monthly active users mark."
"As of May 2021, Brave has 32.4 million active monthly users and a network of 1.2 million content creators."
Picked up more BAT today...Google is getting WAY too slow.
BAT is trying to get back to a dollar land.. Lets go BAT!!!
BAT surges over $2 on my
Predictions, starts tonight..
London ether based altcoins to surge
On hard fork!!!
I like how you think! I know of other coins that make you purchase their token...and in my opinion, they have no where near the functionality and features of Brave/BAT...
I was wondering if Brave no longer give away BAT what would happen to the price? Will BAT hit $5 in no time? something to think about...hmmmmm
Brave Launches Privacy-Preserving Search Engine in Beta
It’s the latest addition to the browser’s suite of tracking-prevention tools.
Benjamin Powers
Jun 22, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EDT
Updated Jun 22, 2021 at 12:13 p.m. EDT
Brave Launches Privacy-Preserving Search Engine in Beta
Privacy-oriented web browser Brave has launched a new feature in beta, Brave Search, which does not track users’ searches or what they click on.
The browser looks to rival other search engines: Google is top of mind but other firms like DuckDuckGo have carved out a small but growing niche among tracking-wary web users.
“Brave Search extends the same privacy and independence guarantees that Brave has made to browser users,” Brave CEO Brendan Eich told CoinDesk in an email. “Brave Search is based on an independently built search index, whereas other search engines are critically dependent on big tech search engines under the hood.”
The new service offers fully anonymous searching and is transparent regarding how search results are ranked, Brave added.
Brave Search is based on Tailcat, the open search engine Brave acquired in March. The move continues Brave’s march to build a competitive and private alternative to other browsers, with Brave News being another recent addition.
Prior to this, Brave had only been able to offer search through third-party providers. While that met some of the company’s needs, Eich said Brave realized the search experience could be improved upon.
“In spite of the need for a better search experience, most search engines are not equipped to build one,” Eich, the developer of JavaScript and a co-founder of the Mozilla Project, said, adding:
“In fact, nearly every single Western search engine is nothing more than Google or Bing search under a different name, a so-called ‘skin.’ Because we don’t rely exclusively on big tech search engines under the hood as other private search engines do, we’re able to give our users the privacy guarantees they expect from Brave products.”
Read more: Brave Acquires Tailcat to Create Private Search Engine Competitor to Google
Brave Search uses an anonymous crowd-based indexing algorithm (so it can scale user growth to cover pages that matter) and doesn’t have to crawl the entire web just to answer common queries. Some features, like images, will still be accessed from Microsoft Bing.
Google is still the elephant in the room. According to one estimate, the search giant does the number of searches in about 12 minutes what DuckDuckGo does in a day.
Brave Search will not display ads during the initial phase of the beta, but plans to offer both ad-free paid search and ad-supported free search options. The company will consider bringing private ads with BAT (-6.43%) revenue to Brave Search at a later date.
Said Eich: “As Brave Search grows, the anonymized contributions from the community will improve and refine our results, and will help Brave Search provide the relevant results that will make it on par with big search engines – minus the tracking.”
https://www.coindesk.com/brave-launches-privacy-preserving-search-engine-in-beta
BAT crypto price prediction!!!
Watch for the surge up!!
Basic Attention Token has a "strong-buy" rating from analysts at investing.com based on its monthly technicals.
BAT token price prediction 2021
Wallet Investor, an algorithmic forecasting tool, is bullish on the Basic Attention Token (BAT/USD) forecast. It expects BAT’s average price to reach $5 by the end of 2021 - that is a huge growth by year end.
Brave Browser’s Next Trick: Privacy-Preserving News Recommendations
The federated learning approach allows users to keep their data on their local device rather than on a centralized server. “Brave Today” is just step one.
Benjamin Powers
Jun 10, 2021 at 1:36 p.m. EDT
Updated Jun 10, 2021 at 2:28 p.m. EDT
Brave Browser’s Next Trick: Privacy-Preserving News Recommendations
The privacy-focused Brave browser is seeking to walk the line when it comes to preserving users’ privacy while also offering up news recommendations in its recently launched Brave Today, a news aggregator integrated into the browser.
This continues Brave’s incremental progress toward building out a suite of services meant to rival, and exceed, dominant browsers like Chrome and Safari.
In March, Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, an open search engine, to be the basis of its forthcoming product Brave Search. Brave is pitching Brave Search as a non-tracking alternative to Google Search on Chrome and mobile.
Recommendation systems are a feature of the web today. Whether it be YouTube’s recommendation algorithm or Spotify’s weekly playlist offerings, these systems often rely heavily on tracking your behavior online – meaning, essentially, gathering and analyzing your data.
Brave Today allows users to “anonymously subscribe to RSS feeds of their favorite news outlets and stay up to date with all the latest news in a single place.” Users are able to choose from 15 different categories of curated sources and then customize their stream further by adding or removing them (including CoinDesk).
“Starting with on-device recommendation for Brave Today, we want to start offering Brave users a level of personalization powered by models that are trained locally, all while keeping user privacy our first priority,” said Pete Snyder, senior privacy researcher at Brave.
Tracking without the ick factor
To avoid collecting users behavior data in the service of recommendations, Brave is proposing “a new framework for making on-device privacy-preserving recommendations that doesn’t require user interaction data to be collected on a server.”
Brave is using a technique it calls “Federated Learning With Privacy.”
Federated learning is a machine-learning technique that trains prediction models (algorithms) while keeping data locally on devices, rather than feeding that data to a central server (whether that be on the premises of a company or in the cloud) that hosts the model.
“Users train local models on their private data and share only their local model updates with a central server,” said a blog post announcing the proposal. “The central server computes a global model as the aggregate of all local models and sends it back to the users, where the process repeats.”
Snyder said while typical federated learning systems have important implications and risks for user privacy, there is a large and active research community working to improve the privacy of federated learning systems, so that users can collaborate to improve the system’s accuracy, without revealing their private information and behaviors.
Privacy is quickly becoming something large tech firms value. Google, for example, has introduced and implemented a system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), albeit with mixed results. Various browsers, such as Brave, have refused to adopt FLoC and, in fact, have disabled it in its browser.
Snyder said FLoC and federated learning are categorically different. FLoC is a privacy-harming behavioral advertising system proposed by Google and implemented in some Chromium-based browsers, he said.
“While the ‘FL’ in FLoC stands for ‘federated learning,’ this is now a palimpsest of Google’s original implementation plans for FLoC; FLoC doesn’t actually use any federated learning in current implementations,” Snyder said via email. “Google mentions this in their documentation too, where they note ‘no Federated Learning is used (despite the ‘FL’ in the name).”’
Next steps
Snyder said Brave’s ultimate goal is to improve the user experience on the Brave browser through federated private learning with the private on-device recommendation framework for Brave Today is merely the first step.
“We plan to get there gradually and in measurable steps. Our focus at the moment is building the federated learning infrastructure,” he said, adding:
“Once this is up and running, we are planning on testing it on smaller optimization problems that have practically no privacy cost. If our tests are successful, we can use our federated private learning framework to power user-facing features like Brave News, and optimize already existing ones, such as our local ads targeting machine learning.”
https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browsers-next-trick-privacy-preserving-news-recommendations
I agree with you about Eich, in addition to all the others that make Brave a very interesting investment. They are now at 32.4 Million Monthly Active Users (up from 30M) and 11.3 Daily Active Users!
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
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Jun 2
@brave
May 2021 stats:
MAU: 32.4M
DAU: 11.3M (high water mark; 10.8M 28-day constant-weekend-days mean)
MAU/DAU: 2.87
https://twitter.com/brave
This week on #TheBraveMarketer podcast, Richard Kramer, Founder of Arete Research &
@brendaneich
, CEO
@brave
, talk about Big Tech, the importance of informed user consent, and brand safety considerations for advertisers. Hosted by:
@DonnyDvorin
. https://kite.link/TBM-Richard
Same reason for me. Eich has an impeccable reputation and his team is equally impressive. One of the few crypto projects out there that is already in use by tens of millions and its working!
He is a genius behind BAT the reason why I was invested since 2017
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
“Your digital fingerprint is tracked everywhere online. Brave wants to change that” https://digitaltrends.com/features/digital-fingerprinting-online-privacy-brave/ # via
@DigitalTrends
“Your digital fingerprint is tracked everywhere online. Brave wants to change that” https://t.co/plYsZ0fCkO # via @DigitalTrends pic.twitter.com/XE0R0RoryQ
— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 1, 2021
BAT getting noticed!!
I aint.making this up!!!
BAT Brave news!!
Will propel to $5+ level
Congrats!!
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
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May 26
Our research group has been working on THEMIS, a protocol to progressively decentralize the Brave Ads infrastructure. We received 10 RFC&C proposals from teams in the Web3 & crypto ecosystem; here are details & how proposals could be integrated in THEMIS:
price is much higher too
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