Last week the Brave and BAT Community had various events and announcements:
- Weekly Community Call with Luke Mulks, Brave's VP of Business Ops - 1/10/2023 - Recording
- Twitter Space with Edge W2E - 1/13/2023 - Recording
- Brave Announcement of Important Changes to Brave Rewards - There is a bulleted summary at the end of the linked article.
- Brave Announcement of Brave Adds Support for Bridges in Private Windows with Tor - Allows users to turn on Snowflake Extensions with a single click.
- BAT Brigade's Friday Trivia - Discord Invite
BAT Community Call Summary:
General News:
- Brave's Mobile PM, Anthony will give updates on the Brave Playlist feature on Android during next week's Community Call.
- The 2023 State of BAT blogpost is still being worked on and will be released later this month. It will provide a recap of 2022 and plans for 2023.
- A new VP of Growth will be starting at Brave on 1/17/2023. He has a startup and browser background and will be a great asset for Brave's MAU & DAU growth goals.
BAT Community:
- The BAT Ambassadors is beginning to do IRL public meetups again. During them they will promote Brave, Brave products, and the BAT Ecosystem.
- GetBased passes will be sent out next week for anyone who filled out the form for them in the BAT Brigade Discord server.
- BAT x Adam Ape - The Team is working with Cardinal to get everything ready for The Sage burn (the UI, the logic, etc...). More updates to come soon.
Brave Rewards:
- Details on changes to Brave Rewards and tipping system in the 1.48 update (February 2023): If you don't or can't verify your Rewards through one of the wallet provider partners (Uphold, Gemini & BitFlyer) and KYC, then the full amount of BAT you earn from now on will be auto-contributed to verified websites you visit, just like on iOS. You probably won't be able to designate and tip a specific Brave Creator.
- See the Important Changes to Brave Rewards post released later that week for more information. It has a summary at its end that highlights the important parts.
Brave Wallet :
- Code for auto-discovery of Solana assets is being reviewed at the moment. This feature is hoped to arrive soon in Nightly.
Twitter Space with Edge W2E Summary:
Project description - Edge is a Web3 streaming platform that is revolutionizing video streaming with user incentives for viewing and sharing.
Goal - For Edge to live inside existing video platforms and for $EAT to be a token that rewards users who engage with and share content.
About Edge:
- Decentralized networking and streaming; first of its kind Web3 video network.
- Edge provides tech that integrates with existing video/streaming platforms (web or TV).
- Has its own token, the Edge Activity Token ($EAT). It is loosely inspired by Brave's Basic Attention Token ($BAT).
- Edge measures real engagement from viewers: Is their volume on? Is their Edge player running in the foreground or background? etc., and rewards them in $EAT for their engagement with the content. Engagement can include liking, sharing on social media, or tagging faces via their AI face-detection software (not live yet).
- When viewing an Edge stream on your computer, phone, or TV, there is a QR code you can scan to start interacting with the content and earning $EAT.
- Users can tag TV characters and personalities during streams with their upcoming AI face-detection software. If the person/character/personality hasn't been tagged prior, then they are entered into Edge's database, and an NFT is generated. The NFT will allow the tagging viewer to earn $EAT every time the person appears on screen. This is a great way to encourage viewer participation with streams and to have viewers help feed Edge's AI and grow its database.
Live Q&A:
- Can you discuss some ways to prevent people of taking advantage of the system? Several ways; cannot discuss them all for security reasons. For example, The system can detect whether one or multiple devices are using the same wallet. It can tell whether a viewer's volume is on (Are they actually listening? Watching on mute? Are they not really engaged?), and whether the player is running in the foreground or the background.
- Have you noticed W2E being more effective with specific audiences? For example, gamblers, who chase rewards/payoffs? So far, it has proven effective with audiences across niches. We will continue to learn/observe how to engage different audience cohorts as time progresses.
- What can viewers do with $EAT tokens? Right now: Cash them in (withdraw) or stake them.
- Is the Edge rewards system fully decentralized? It is not fully decentralized yet, but that is the goal.
- What about Edge's partnership with Brave? Edge is part of Brave's Wallet Partner Program. Currently exploring possibilities for W2E in Brave with $BAT integration.
Edge's Website: https://www.edgevideo.com/
Edge's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EDGEW2E
Get Involved, Stay Connected:
- For more on everything BAT, join the BAT Brigade: https://discord.com/invite/MHbkVUqS2W. Each week there is trivia on Friday where you can win BAT!
- Weekly Community Calls with Brave each Tuesday at 2 pm PT - 5 pm ET - 10 pm UTC at: https://talk.brave.com/this--is--your--weekly--bat-community--call.
- Follow the BAT Community Twitter Account and Join Twitter Spaces (Most Fridays at 1 pm): https://twitter.com/BAT_Community
Acknowledgement:
Special thanks to BAT Community members Paula and Belladone for providing me with written permission to share and incorporate their summaries of community events into this post. This blog post is considered a combined effort by the BAT Ambassador Group to keep the public informed on Brave and the Brave/BAT Community.
