Despite community backlash resultant from an epic $35m ICO, and a downtrending price during only its second week of trading (chart just below), I’m betting Brave’s BAT will significantly outperform the vast majority of crypto assets over the course of the next 18 months.

While the chart above may look dire, BAT’s price movements are actually rather normal given the situation and shouldn’t reflect strongly on the long term value of BAT. We’ve seen time and time again how prices of new crypto assets can tend to crest subsequent to initial distribution, before declining once their hype subsides. Ethereum’s ETH price followed a similar pattern during its first weeks of trading:

If BAT were a smaller project which hadn’t made a big impression on market participants, then the worry would be that its price could trade down much further, even on good news. However, BAT is a well-known project and its back-of-mind presence keeps its price fit to trend up.

Now, consider how truly competent the Brave team is. Remember that their founder is the inventor JavaScript (not to mention founder of Mozilla), the most widely used web software language. It’s easy to have confidence that they’ll continue to ship useful software.

Brave is also a type of web media entity, plausibly with distinct advantages over other crypto asset projects in regards to networking and communications. We should expect many opportunities for their story to make the rounds in mainstream tech media. This potentially outstanding resonance would no doubt boost organic BAT adoption rates.

It’s easy enough to imagine BAT as a major force towards the progress of crypto adoption in the large. If that happens, it’ll no doubt mean very healthy returns for early accumulators.