Brave has announced that it has developed a new browser that is based on Chromium and uses Chromium’s native user interface, not the current Javascript or HTML. This re-write will be made possible as an open source, availing it to other developers.

Brave is an open source web browser by Mozilla’s co-founder and claims to block ads and trackers and facilitate cryptocurrency-based micro-transactions between content consumers and producers.

The announced new release will feature Chrome features and extension APIs, which is a contrast to the earlier Brave version. Brave has also added that while the new browser will support chrome’s extensions, it will not “include any code that phones home to Google, or to the Chrome Web Store.” According to Brave, the Android version already uses Chromium fully that lacks the code for “Google accounts, sync, or other Google-specific surveillance risks.”

According to the published document, the open source version that is made available to developers has not been finalized to be released as an upgrade to Brave’s current “Muon-based” browser. This will only be possible after critical features such as Brave Payments, Tor private tabs, and sync are added based on Muon implementation.

Brave is also in the process of updating its iOS browser, with special attention on moving from UI Web View “to WK Web View. This will eventually benefit from “Apple’s newer engine and preferred embedding solution.”

Brave users are also poised to “see opt-in, private […] ads,” for which they will be distributed a “70% revenue share” on advertising earnings in the form of Brave’s cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Token (BAT).