Basic Attention Token (BAT)

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Basic Attention Token (BAT)                                                                   

Introducing

Introducing Blockchain-based digital advertising

open source                transparent                   decentralized                        efficient

Basic Attention Token radically improves the efficiency of digital advertising by creating a new token that can be exchanged between publishers, advertisers, and users. It all happens on the Ethereum blockchain. The token can be used to obtain a variety of advertising and attention-based services on the Brave platform. The utility of the token is based on user attention, which simply means a person’s focused mental engagement.

                                                                        How It Works

The Brave browser anonymously monitors user attention, then rewards publishers accordingly with BATs. 

Measuring Attention

Attention is measured as users view ads and content in the browser’s active tab in real time. The Attention Value for the ad will be calculated based on incremental duration and pixels in view in proportion to relevant content, prior to any direct engagement with the ad. We will define further anonymous cost-per-action models as the system develops. Ads are then anonymously matched with customer interests using local machine learning algorithms. This means less irrelevant ads. Brave will work with publishers and advertisers to establish best practices for judging user attention. One potential metric: the number of total views of advertising content for a certain number of seconds. Or, points assigned on the length of a view.

Who Gets What

Users viewing ads will be rewarded with BATs. BATs can be used for premium content or services on the Brave platform. Publishers will, as part of this service, receive the lion’s share of the total ad revenue. We anticipate that users will also donate back some tokens to publishers, further increasing their revenue.

More Privacy, Less Fraud

Users’ privacy is protected through the use of the ANONIZE algorithm. And ad fraud will be prevented or reduced by publication of source code and cryptographically secure transactions.

Parts of the Solution are Code Complete

Much of the infrastructure required to deploy BAT at the back end is “code complete,” meaning it’s currently in place and being used to distribute donations to publishers based on customer attention. This code will be leveraged to deploy BAT as soon as possible.

Blockchain Digital Advertising.

The Challenge

Digital advertising is overrun by middlemen, trackers and fraud.

Users are abused

Up to 50% of the average user’s mobile data is for ads and trackers, costing as much as $23 a month.

Ads use about 5 seconds of mobile load time on average.

Ads decrease phone battery life by as much as 21%. 

Privacy is violated when large media sites host up to 70 trackers. 

Malware (malvertisements, ransom-ware) is up 132% in one year.

Publishers are hurting

Google and Facebook take 73% of all ad dollars and 99% of all growth. 

Revenue is recently down 66%. Bots inflicted $7.2 billion in fraud last year. 

Over 600 million phones and desktops run ad-blocking.

Publishers cannot seamlessly monetize value added services. 

Advertisers are losing

Advertisers lack good information on what they are paying for. 

Marketers are often fooled by bogus websites and bots that commit fraud.

Targeting is poor, making users more likely to ignore ads.  

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