Basic Attention Token: Brave 1.0 Beta available for developers, MAU reaches 4 mil, Brendan Eich writes letter to the US Senate Committee on Commerce
Biweekly update 25th September — 9th October
Development
On the 27th of September released the first beta version of our upcoming Brave 1.0 browser for testing on our new Brave Beta Channel. This beta is a work in progress for developers and users who would like to see our latest advances. On September 6th, was released the first developer version (0.55) of Brave 1.0 on the Brave Developer Channel, and integrated the feedback that many of you have provided for Brave Dev into this first beta. More information can be found here.
Social encounters
Brave recently passed the 4 million bar of monthly active users (MAU), and has over 21,000 Verified Publishers. To celebrate this MAU milestone Brave Launches video contest with 100K BAT in prizes. More information can be found here.
Article about BAT on Cnet: “Overhauled Brave browser beta gets max privacy with Tor-powered private tabs”. The full article can be found here.
David Temkin, Chief Product Officer at Brave hosted an AMA session on the 4th of October. David Temkin is the Chief Product Officer at Brave and is responsible for delivering the Brave browser product and for many of the features. David is a product development leader and entrepreneur with a history of developing and commercializing beautifully designed products used by millions of people. The full AMA session can be found here. The highlights of the AMA session can be found here.
Posted a video from Brave & BAT official meetup event graciously hosted at Founders Fund, featuring Brendan Eich. Brendan is the inventor of JavaScript, founder of Mozilla/Firefox and CEO of Brave. The full video can be found here.
Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to present the case for GDPR-like data protection standards in the United States. This note outlines why a GDPR-like standard in the United States is needed to spur innovation and prevent anti-competitive behavour by large tech platforms. The full letter can be found here.
Finance
The number of token holders and the number of transactions is increasing over time.
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
CEO of Shapeshift posted in hi twitter that he is using using Brave on mobile and is “quite happy” with it. The twitter post can be found here.
Social media activity
The community is growing over time
