Basic Attention Token

BAT is the reward and payment token of the Brave browser: users earn it for viewing private ads and use it to support creators.

Basic Attention Token (BAT) was launched in 2017 by the makers of the Brave browser. Brave blocks trackers and ordinary ads. Users who opt in to Brave Rewards see privacy-respecting ads and earn BAT for their attention, advertisers pay to run campaigns, and users can pass BAT on to websites and creators they like. Brave says the browser has over 120 million users and more than 2 million verified creators.

BAT is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum with a fixed supply of 1.5 billion, of which over 99% is already in circulation. There is no staking and no new issuance. Brave buys BAT on the market to fund rewards and publishes these purchases in its transparency feed.

In July 2026 Brave published BAT Roadmap 4.0. It plans a unified Brave Wallet, BravePay for stablecoin payments, a rewards card that pays BAT on purchases, payments by AI agents in the browser, and a protocol to pay creators when AI uses their content.