Brave publishers are rewarded in the cryptocurrency of the BAT ecosystem

Brendan Eich, Brave’s co-founder and chief executive officer, a announced that Brave reached 12.2 million monthly users. Of these, about 30% (4 million) use the daily browser.

Brave also registered a steady increase in the number of publishers, currently reaching almost 447,000 publishers.

More than half of Brave publishers operate on YouTube, up 560% from last year. The next largest segment of content creators operates on Twitter – 52,150 in total. Site publishers reached 45,400 – up 220% from March of last year.

Other significant increases were recorded among Twitch publishers – an increase of 760% in one year, reaching 33,000 at present. In total, 30,700 Reddit publishers are registered, and on Github and Vimeo there are 10,550, respectively 6,660 publishers.

Publishers registered on the Brave browser are rewarded in the cryptocurrency of the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem. In total, 254,327 BAT addresses were registered by publishers, which means they generally use the same address for multiple platforms.

Brave publishers are active in over 68 countries

Brave is a free browser officially launched in January 2016. The main benefits it offers are the included adblock system and tracker lock. However, users can choose to be rewarded for viewing ads through the Brave Rewards program.

Thus, they can be directly rewarded for their attention with the BAT token, and those who publish ads get more relevant information about the interests of the public.

Browser users can also choose to reward their favorite content creators with BAT tokens. To benefit from this advantage, these content creators must join the Brave Publisher program.

The browser is constantly developing and introducing new features periodically. For example, on February 25, Brave integrated Wayback Machine. It allows its users to access archived versions of web pages through the browser.