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Brave is one of the few web browsers who has embraced crypto.
It has the affiliated BAT rewards token and a built-in crypto wallet, to name a few of his Tie-ins.
But it has also chosen a privacy-forward approach and splashed in his marketing to help distinguish it from other chrome-based browsers.
‘We are a bit in it [a] Metaphysical rebellion against the Big Tech Surveillance Powers who have evolved on Javascript, ”Brave CEO and co -founder Brendan Eich, who created the JavaScript language, said on Stage during the permissionless conference of Blockworks this week.
“We didn’t think so enough in the mid-90s. The cookie was to keep your login tokens,” he added. “It was not for traffic from third parties, but it evolved that way, and Javascript was just fuel on that fire.”
Eich argued that internet advertising is inherently a ‘toxic system’ in which the parties involved ‘all fight each other and cheat each other’.
But technology that blockchain rails can use, such as ZK Proofs for Privacy Plus “Proof of Humanity” verification for fraud prevention, can help to achieve a new, browser-native, more private advertising system.
“We have to go on block chains that are faster and private due to design,” he said.
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Brave started as a web browser, because that type of product is a starting point with the potential to reach a massive consumer audience.
“It is the universal app, the daily driver. We have more user notes and a smaller user population than X,” Eich said. The transparency page of Brave contains 38.6 million daily active users and 88.1 million monthly.
And although not all brave users like this bit, brave searches helps the AI activities of the company by using that data to refine its LLM (Brave offers Leo Ai).
“It seems that the browser is still relevant, but we discovered that the downside of the browser currency,” said the CEO.
Eich was previously co -founder of the Mozilla Foundation and her affiliated company and worked for 11 years on Mozilla projects. He spoke on stage with Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed (Midnight is a Cardano-Lied, ZK- and Privacy-oriented chain). Midnight, whose foundation was launched last month, is planning to include Batholders in his upcoming Night AirDrop.
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Last month Brave said that the Cardano supports the Brave Wallet, which already supports many chains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and others.