The privacy blockchain web browser Brave has seen its monthly active users almost double from 5.5 million in 2018 to 10.4 million by the end of 2019. Simultaneously, Brave’s daily active users have tripled over the past year. On December 5th the browser’s daily users reached heights of 3.3 million users.

Brave was developed by the creator of JavaScript as well as co-founder of the Mozilla browser, Brendan Eich in 2016.



According to Brave, this recent growth in monthly active users come as a result of the release of Brave’s new version, Brave 1.0. Which was released on November 13th. According to the blog post by Brave, increased its monthly active users base from 8.7 million in October to over 10 million at the end of November.

Huge increase of new publishers

Together with the spike in active users on the Brave browser, they have reached other notable accomplishments as well. Such as reporting a 12-time increase in publishers that are verified and registered. These publishers are incentivized by Brave to earn Brave’s native cryptocurrency tokens Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) — for sharing content.

Data from a site that tracks adoption of the Brave browser BATGrowth, the total number of Brave publishers was around 342,000 on December 6th. On the other hand Brave had only 28,000 publishers at the start of 2019.

Brave’s growth continues through crypto tipping on social media

Several reports have begun show that Brave is becoming an increasingly popular browser. The browser now allows its users to give a tip on major social media platforms using Brave’s BAT token. These including Twitter, video platform Vimeo and Reddit. Brave reportedly surpassed several of its major competitors in the Japanese Google Play in September. Overtaking well known competitors such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

