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Basic Attention Token (BAT) is a cryptocurrency built into the Brave browser that tokenizes the attention economy, letting users earn tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads, support content creators, and give advertisers anonymized ad-effectiveness measurement. It serves users, advertisers, and creators across payments, rewards, and creator monetization, with expanding integrations across Web3, gaming, and decentralized payment systems.
Founders & leadership
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Brendan EichFounder & CEOEich created JavaScript at Netscape, where he worked as principal engineer and chief architect from 1995 to 2003, and spent the following decade at Mozilla as chief architect, CTO, and briefly CEO. Earlier in his career he was a software engineer at Silicon Graphics and MicroUnity before co-founding Brave Software in 2015.
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Brian BondyFounder & CTO
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountICOMay 2017Source ↗
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- What does Basic Attention Token do?
- Basic Attention Token (BAT) is a cryptocurrency built into the Brave browser that tokenizes the attention economy, letting users earn tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads, support content creators, and give advertisers anonymized ad-effectiveness measurement. It serves users, advertisers, and creators across payments, rewards, and creator monetization, with expanding integrations across Web3, gaming, and decentralized payment systems.
- Who founded Basic Attention Token?
- Basic Attention Token was founded by Brendan Eich, Brian Bondy.
- Who are Basic Attention Token's investors?
- Basic Attention Token's investors include Blockchain Assets, Hyperchain Capital, Metachain Capital.