Basic Attention Token Blog

Today we are announcing that the support of BAT within the Uphold platform is live. Uphold members can hold, send, receive, and convert BAT into many fiat and crypto-currencies that Uphold supports. BAT is supported in Uphold’s Tier 3 reserve. If you are new to...

Uphold to support Brave's Basic Attention Token, the new utility token for blockchain-based digital advertising Uphold and Basic Attention Token (BAT) are excited to announce a new partnership to provide support for BAT, an Ethereum-based utility token, on the Uphold...

We're pleased to announce a coordinated growth initiative to expand the reach and scale of the global Basic Attention Token community. Jennie and Stephen, the BAT community managers we hired in early July, are leading the expansion. Users make up the first side of the...

Today we announce our launch plans for the first phase of the Basic Attention Token platform, code-named Mercury. The initial outline for Mercury was included in our roadmap announcement and the design concept is available on Github. BAT Mercury will be rolled out...

Today we made a full recovery of our User Growth Pool and reserve tokens, which had been appropriated and secured by the White Hat Group last week to mitigate the Parity multisig wallet critical vulnerability. We'd like to thank the White Hat Group for its swift...

We learned yesterday of a critical vulnerability in the Parity multisig wallet implementation for storing ETH and tokens. No ETH held by the BAT team was affected, including the funds from the sale of 1 billion BAT tokens. In fact, the bulk of BAT ICO ETH was already...

Our recent token sale enabled us to create a user growth pool of 300 million BATs, which will be used in the near future to stake users with tokens and incentivize them to join the BAT platform. The sale also provided our development team with resources to continue...

We’re happy to announce that after researching and testing alternatives, the BAT team will transition from Slack to rocket.chat for open communication and collaboration with its community members. The transition begins Wednesday, 07.12.2017 at 11AM PDT. Why are...

The BAT Team is excited to announce two new freelance community managers, Jennie (@bat-jennie) and Stephen (@bat-stephen)! @bat-jennie @bat-stephen Both Jennie and Stephen participated in our “Moderator for a Day” trial program. They did a great job engaging with our...

Basics   What does BAT stand for and what is it? Basic Attention Token. It is a utility token based on the Ethereum technology that can also be used as a unit of account between advertisers, publishers, and users in a new, blockchain-based digital advertising and...