Basic Attention Token (BAT) Progress Report
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Basic Attention Token (BAT) Progress Report

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Overview on Basic Attention Token

Basic Absorption Badge (BAT) and Brave browser action a decentralized, agenda announcement belvedere congenital on the Ethereum arrangement that fundamentally changes the way users, publishers and advertisers interact. The account of the badge is absorbed in the name itself- Basic Absorption Badge commodifies user absorption aural the agenda realm.

As users browse the internet on Brave, all alien announcement agreeable and abstracts tracking is blocked. Brave replaces the cachet quo with a cellophane ad commitment approach, whereby catalogues of agreeable are anon beatific to and stored locally on user devices.

From anniversary catalogue, a tailored alternative of ads are called and displayed according to user browsing behavior.

Users are adored BAT anon to their wallets for their absorption as they absorb paid content, while their claimed abstracts and identities abide protected. All ads are based on an opt-in arrangement and ensure the aegis of the alone user data.

Users, publishers and advertisers all angle to account from added able commitment of content, rewards for consumption, decreased ad artifice and bigger aloofness through abstracts security.

BAT Proposed Roadmap

The aggregation has disconnected the roadmap into 3 sets of development milestones; namely, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Below is the absolute roadmap from the BAT website.

Mercury (Summer 2024)

Gemini (Fall 2024/Winter 2024)

Apollo (Rest of 2024)

BAT Project Development Progress:

From a macro-level standpoint, the Brave browser is a beloved appliance based on blockchain technology that has cogent abeyant for adoption. The analytical affair adverse websites that await on abbreviating acquirement streams from advertisements has created a appeal in the bazaar for another sources of revenue.

For advertisers as well, millions of dollars are absent through inefficient adjustment of content, and consumers themselves currently accept little ascendancy over their browsing acquaintance or abstracts privacy. It is at this choice Basic Attention Token has focused efforts on acceptance and advance strategies.

After auspiciously amalgam BAT wallet with Brave browser, the foundation was set on which to body both an alive user abject and set of publishing partners. From there, the strategies deployed to onboard both users and publishers accept resulted in absorbing results. Earlier this year, the activity launched a barometer affairs for YouTube and Twitch that adored $5 USD account of BAT to anniversary accommodating agreeable architect for every new alive Brave user brought onboard.

In addition, the activity has cautiously leveraged the User Advance Pool, a committed armamentarium to accumulation chargeless BAT for users against developing a new ecosystem of amount barter amid consumers and agreeable creators. These advance strategies accept resulted in 11,000 YouTube channels signing on as Brave Publishers, with a accumulated viewership of 200 actor people.

As of June 2018, Brave browser has 2.7 actor account alive users, according to the BAT website.

According to the Gemini Roadmap, BAT aimed to authorize a affiliation with a arch publishing accomplice to advance the account arrangement of the platform. To this end, assorted action partnerships are already underway .

On April 18th, Dow Jones Media Group appear a affiliation with the Brave software aggregation in adjustment to analysis the belvedere and token. Dow Jones Media Group will accumulation agreeable via Brave’s agenda announcement and casework platform. More partnerships accept been accustomed with high-profile sites such as the Guardian, the Washington Post and Vimeo, amid others, to abutment Brave browser.

BAT has accomplished addition cogent anniversary on the Gemini roadmap. On June 19th, BAT appear autonomous testing will activate for the consent-based agenda announcement model. Over the advance of the abutting several months, the aggregation affairs to aggrandize user trials.

These trials are decidedly important for assessing the appulse of user rewards on the announcement system, to prove the activity of the ecosystem envisioned by BAT. During the balloon phase, users will actively acquire tokens for their burning of agreeable and anniversary date will aggrandize to accommodate a added base.

Though several above milestones accept been met in 2024, the activity has not yet completed the Gemini Roadmap according to the proposed time frame. Originally appointed for aboriginal 2024, user ad trials accept aloof begun.

BAT has additionally yet to alpha breeding revenue, which represents one of the best cogent accomplish advanced against alluring the abutment of abounding added -to-be action users. The after-effects of the ad trials and bearing of acquirement will mark a above axis point for BAT. Acquirement will alone appear into comedy afterwards BAT can prove the announcement belvedere performs as able-bodied or bigger than the accepted cachet quo for online advertising. These milestones are amid the best acute indicators for the approaching of BAT Token.  

Adoption of the Brave browser itself faces a abeyant ceiling; in adjustment to admission the absolute amount hypothesis for users, a assertive acquaintance with cryptocurrency is required. Wider acceptance of the browser, which will added facilitate absorption from enterprises, may charge a added automated onboarding action that accounts for this dynamic.

On the added hand, the adverse book could comedy out; the adeptness to use Brave after BAT could serve as a agent to advance added acceptance of cryptocurrency. Users alien with cryptocurrency who are artlessly gluttonous a bigger way to cream the web can use Brave and accretion acknowledgment to the use of BAT aural the ecosystem as a result.

Whether either of these scenarios plays out ultimately depends on the after-effects of this acute aeon in which user trials are underway and the catechism of acquirement charcoal open.

Our Verdict on BAT

While BAT may be abaft on some milestones, the ambit of accomplishments accomplished so far outweighs any anxiety apropos to the roadmap. Real acceptance of blockchain-based applications will acceptable appear from projects such as BAT that accompany allusive change to industries accomplished for disruption, and this action will booty time.

At this cardinal moment, the success of the activity back its birth advance a abundantly absolute angle for the future. With a accepted amount about $0.24 and a abeyant advance about the corner, we’ll accede abacus some BAT to our bag.

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Published: 7/6/18

Token Name: BAT

ICO Date: May 31, 2024

Raised: $36,000,000

Crowdsale Token Ownership:

ICO Price:  1 BAT = $0.036

Current Price: $0.239

Token Return: 6.65x

Market Cap: $239,773,000