Research corpus Storage and networksBLC-STUDY-0057

Basic Attention Token: Blockchain Based Digital Advertising

Brave's 2018 paper for an advertising unit that pays publishers and users from a measured attention event inside the browser, rather than from a chain of third-party trackers. The browser is load-bearing. The token is the unit of account in the paper's payment flow.

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Authors: Brave Software
Date: 2018
Publisher: Brave Software
Version: Source cited by the 2018 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0057
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — BAT white paper
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Brave Software (2018). Basic Attention Token: Blockchain Based Digital Advertising. Brave Software. https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePaper-4.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{basicattentiontoken2018,
  title = {Basic Attention Token: Blockchain Based Digital Advertising},
  author = {Brave Software},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Brave Software},
  url = {https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePaper-4.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/basic-attention-token}
}

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AU  - Brave Software
PY  - 2018
PB  - Brave Software
UR  - https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePaper-4.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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