The cynics and detractors of crypto who reside outside the crypto community have for long claimed that decentralized systems and dapps have very few or no active user bases. Well, these critics and cynics couldn’t be more wrong since ethereum based browser, Brave is already being considered as a serious alternative to other existing browsers like Firefox, torch and chrome. The most widely recognized science magazine known as popular science recently ranked ethereum based browser alongside Firefox and opera as very viable alternatives to built-in browsers like opera and safari.
Security is very key as a feature I the brave browser, with privacy also being high in the brave browser’s list of priorities. It comes with an ad blocker feature that is built in to help you whitelist sites you want to support. This way you will not have to deal with annoying popups and websites cannot track you as well. According to the popular science team, Brave gives you more control by having advanced security settings that are uncommon with other popular browsers you have been accustomed to using. Brave browser is based on an open source project known as chromium which also operates the base protocol of Google Chrome.
Brave uses an ERC20 token called Brave attention Token (BAT) to give an incentive to creators such as popular you tubers such as Philip De-Franco as well as other largely popular publications. Brave browser has done very well, recently surpassing three million users driven by an influx of digital creators and publishers. These publishers and digital creators are attracted to brave for its transparent advertisement revenue sharing model that utilizes crypto to compensate publishers. A total of more than 18,000 publishers, as well as content creators, have registered as verified publishers enabling them to collect BAT tokens donated by brave users. A vast majority of these are YouTube and Twitch streamers owing to the fact that host platforms like YouTube usually take significant slices of shared advertising revenue
The long-held dominance by safari and chrome in the browser industry is now by challenged by Brave, which is great for the ethereum based browser and gives a lot of optimism to the blockchain community. The fact that content creators and publishers in their thousands are being paid out using crypto dispels the murmurs that decentralized systems do not have any use cases. Brave is not really a Dapp since it based on the same protocol as chrome with its main model revolving around ethereum making it competitive amongst major browsers such as Opera and Firefox.
