2015
Eich says Brave acquired the brave.com domain in 2015 from the Texas band Brave Combo.
“We got it in 2015. We got it from the nuclear polka combo, Brave Combo.”
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Brave
10 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2017
Brave, the privacy-focused web browser, raised $35 million in 30 seconds through an initial coin offering in May 2017.
“they raised 35 million dollars from this ico in 30 seconds in fully non-dilutive capital”
2018
Eich says Brave released its Brave Core browser, a maintainable Chromium fork, around the end of 2018.
“by I think it was end of 2018, we came out with the Brave Core-based browser, which is our maintainable version of Chromium Blink.”
Undated
Eich says many Slack users at Brave run Slack in the browser rather than as the Electron desktop app.
“We have a lot of our users of Slack at Brave use the browser to load Slack as a web app”
Undated
Eich says Brave shares 70% of ad revenue with users in a digital advertising market of more than $300 billion a year.
“We're trying to make users get 70% of the revenue of a growing business that if you look at ad online and digital advertising, it's still 300 billion plus a year.”
Undated
Eich says Brave decides which ad to show inside the browser using a shared catalog, so no server learns the user's identity.
“We do the decisioning in the browser based on this catalog.”
Undated
Eich says Brave's next-generation ad system, Themis, aims at Solana and uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify ad performance.
“So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis.”
Undated
Eich says Brave made Solana the default chain for multi-chain dApps when neither the app nor the user states a preference.
“We agreed to make it the default for multi-chain dApps where they don't express a preference for default and the user doesn't.”
Undated
Eich says Brave had 1.3 million verified creators.
“We have 1.3 million creators verified.”
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Eich says that if Brave keeps doubling its 50 million monthly users, it would reach about 400 million in three years.
“If we keep doubling or better, three years is eight times 50. So it's 400 million users.”
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