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In short, users of Brave can either fund a crypto wallet and reward their favorite publishers by sending them cryptocurrency, or, in the future, users can earn BAT, for free, just by using Brave, and then send the currency to publishers.

The video below explains how it all works. Brave uses Basic Attention Tokens, or BAT, which is a cryptocurrency based on Ethereum technology that serve as Brave's units of currency between advertisers, publishers, and users.
