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Brave hits eight million monthly users, launches “Transparency” page for tracking growth metrics

Privacy-centric browser Brave has reached an all-time high of eight million monthly active users and released impressive statistics suggesting its crypto-incentivized advertising model is gaining traction. Brave Software announced the milestone in a blog post Wednesday, claiming ads on their open-source browser now have a click-through-rate of 14%—seven times more engagement than the industry average […]

Brave hits eight million monthly users, launches “Transparency” page for tracking growth metrics

Santander leads $14 million round in digital securities platform Securitize

Securitize, a blockchain-based digital securities platform, raised $14 million in its latest funding round. The company secured investments from some of the biggest financial institutions in the world, including Santander and MUFG. Securitize completes $14 million investment round A regulated platform for issuing tokens on the blockchain, Securitize, has completed its latest funding round, raising […]

Santander leads $14 million round in digital securities platform Securitize

Justin Sun’s “darkest moment”: apologizes for “over-marketing” TRON to Chinese authorities, then deletes apology

Drama around Justin Sun’s lunch with Warren Buffett continues. Hours ago he published a statement on Weibo apologizing to the TRON community and Chinese authorities for “vulgar hype and marketing behavior.” He deleted the message shortly afterward—read the full translated message here. Justin Sun publicly apologizes for “over-marketing” A translation of the message from CryptoSlate’s […]

Justin Sun’s “darkest moment”: apologizes for “over-marketing” TRON to Chinese authorities, then deletes apology

World’s 250th most visited website reveals BAT contributions—analysis whether Brave browser can replace ads

The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based non-profit digital library—reported receiving $2,500 in Basic Attention Token (BAT) tips. The browser’s micro-donations feature has also been endorsed by several other major websites, which could mean a web driven by ads and the sale of user data could become a thing of the past, suggested Archive.org. Brave Creators […]

World’s 250th most visited website reveals BAT contributions—analysis whether Brave browser can replace ads