Basic Attention Token: Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser, AMA session and Increase in BAT price
Biweekly update 9th October — 23rd October
Development
Social encounters
Posted Brave’s submission to Margrethe Vestager, the EU Anti-Trust Chief, responding to her call for stakeholder input. Brave’s recent submission to the European Competition Directorate General for Competition describes how a core principle of the GDPR called “purpose limitation” can be used to prevent anti-competitive behavior by Google and Facebook. The full letter can be found here. Brave and Brendan Eich mentioned by US Senate committee in the video.
Starting from the 18th of October, users who download a new version of the Brave desktop browser from the Brave website will be presented with Brave’s latest browser release, which was recently redesigned and is based on Chromium. This new release (0.55) is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The announcement can be found here. Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Exiting Brave Muon Version, on Average. More information can be found here.
On the 17th of October, Yan Zhu, Brave’s Chief Information Security Officer help an AMA session. concerning a variety of topics, including how a day in her life at Brave looks, electronic music (a hobby of hers), and her thoughts on the Metamask project. The highlights of the session can be found here.
Brave advertisement spotted in EasyJet’s in-flight magazine, featured alongside other Internet heroes fighting to keep your online data safe, secure and private. (source)
Brave’s Chief Product Officer is presenting “Challenging Surveillance Capitalism: Using Blockchain for a Fair Content Economy” at the upcoming SOCAP18 on October 25th in SF.
Finance
The number of token holders and the number of transactions is increasing over time.
BAT, has seen a surge of 11.40% in price over the past 24 hours of trading. At the time of writing, Basic Attention Token, BAT, is trading at a price of around $0.0233 after seeing a further 28% price increase over the past 7 trading days. (source)
Roadmap
What’s up next?
The main things under development are Brave/BAT Ads, and Brave v1.0 (the rewrite of the browser that should be out this US fall season).
The BAT Community is undergoing a pretty big jump/transformation, the new merch previews being one indication.
Partnerships and team members
No updates
Rumors
Brave browser is working on launching Brave mail. Discussed in Reddit post here.
Coinbase will be the next exchange listing for BAT. Discussed in Reddit post here.
Social media activity
The community is growing over time
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of BAT Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers and Facebook likes.
