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Basic Attention Token Digital Asset Report: Introduction
BAT is a blockchain-based digital advertising platform that improves the efficiency of digital advertising, while blocking malvertisements (ads that install malware) and trackers. This platform improves communications between advertisers, publishers, and users. Advertisers pay publishers for services and users for attention with BAT tokens.
BAT is an open source, transparent, decentralized and efficient project that was first to develop a digital advertising platform in the blockchain industry. In addition, the team behind the BAT project is very strong. It has established a wide network of users, advertisers, and publishers, and is working on expanding partnerships. This project has a good token economy and an active ecosystem that makes BAT competitive in the market.
Nevertheless, there is one drawback that may become a serious obstacle to the further development of the ecosystem. BAT is currently dependent on the throughput capacity of Ethereum. This means that with an increase in the number of transactions in the BAT network, the load on the Ethereum network will increase.
Consequently, when the peak is reached, the Ethereum network will not be able to process the huge number of transactions, therefore, the BAT network will begin to slow down too.
Another drawback of the BAT project is a well-expressed centralization of power, which reduces its attractiveness. Together, these two factors can lead to a slower expansion of the project in the long-term.
In general, BAT has good chances to remain a key player in the digital advertising industry in the short-term. However, it is necessary to resolve the mentioned problems, otherwise, its rivals will be able to push it out of the market in the long-term.
Part One: The Business Case
Basic Attention Token Market Opportunities
The BAT team believes that digital advertising does not work effectively and there are a number of reasons for this.
For instance, over 600 million phones and desktops run ad-blocking because the amount of advertising on the network is huge. Moreover, the quality of advertising can be questionable and even harmful to devices. In addition, advertising slows down the speed of the devices and reduces the battery life of phones.
Not only are the users unhappy, but publishers and advertisers are unsatisfied as well: publishers lose profit, while advertisers have low efficiency of targeted advertising.
The main participants in the digital advertising market are Google and Facebook, which cover about 40% of the market.
In 2018, the size of the digital advertising market amounted to $266 billion, and it is expected to reach $518 billion in 2023.
Digital advertising consists of several types: banner, video, search, social media advertising and classifieds.
Despite the presence of these two giants, BAT can find a niche because it addresses the pain points discussed above.
Competition in the Blockchain Space
AdEx is focused on digital video advertising, while BAT intends to cover all kinds of digital advertising. In addition, BAT has many advantages over AdEx: users are more incentivized to participate in the ecosystem development, large network of partners, users, publishers and advertisers, and a better token economy.
Another representative of companies in the digital advertising industry is adChain. But it is considered as a complement to BAT. The main goal of adChain is to create a list of non-fraudulent websites where advertisers can easily place their ads. In order to enter this list, the community must vote for the fact that the publisher is not a fraud. adChain solves a specific problem related to the transparency of the work of publishers, and this, in turn, can improve the work of BAT. Therefore, these two projects should not be considered as competitors, but as complementary to each other.
A direct competitor to BAT is DATA, a blockchain based digital data authentication protocol powered by AI & P2P mobile storage infrastructure. Despite the fact that DATA can make good competition, BAT is a more promising project.
DATA is built on Tendermint,and this project is more advanced in terms of technology. However, the BAT ecosystem is more active and it serves more than 5.5 million active users monthly and 28,000 verified publishers. Also, BAT is able to cover a larger part of the market than DATA because the Brave browser can be used by both mobile and PC users. The BAT project is better known in the blockchain space, has a wide base of users and partners, has a good token economy, and it is more attractive in the long-term.
In addition, there are social media and blogging platform projects, for example, Steem. Many dApps have been developed on this blockchain.
Steemit enables publishers to publish their content and receive tokens if the community votes for the content.
DTube rewards video creators for their content (a replacement for YouTube).
Dlive rewards live streamers (a replacement for Twitch). There are also other dApps developed on the Steem blockchain, which can compete with BAT.
NVT Comparison
Since NVT values are not available to competitors of BAT, a comparison was made with Ethereum and Tron. Most of the rivals are built on the Ethereum network, therefore, this blockchain was chosen. Tron, in turn, is the most similar platform of dApps to Steem. As seen in the figure below BAT transactions are overvalued a little. This is because the community expects the successful launch of the BAT platform.
The main competitors in the traditional sphere – Google, Facebook, and Baidu. Google is a search engine company, Facebook – an online social media and social networking services company, which make most of its revenue from digital advertising. Baidu – is a Chinese search engine company also specializing in AI and digital distribution services. BAT intends to compete with these giants.
Competition in the Traditional Space
The BAT project poses a threat to Google and Facebook because the Brave browser blocks ads and trackers. This reduces the number of ad views in Google and Facebook and reduces their profits. In addition, the Brave browser runs 3-7 times faster compared to Chrome on Android, more on iOS, and ~2 times on laptop. Chrome utilizes only a cosmetic advertising filter, which is not comparable with the BAT technology.
BAT can also take market share from Baidu, which owns the mobile advertising platform called "DU Ad Platform". Firstly, Brave users can simply block ads, which will reduce the efficiency of the Baidu platform. Secondly, users of the BAT ecosystem are more interested in viewing ads than the clients of the Baidu platform.
Despite the fact that Google and Facebook have huge financial, technological and human resources, BAT has the opportunity to cover part of the digital advertising market.
The BAT project is one of the first to develop a digital advertising exchange platform based on blockchain technology. There are few competitors in this sphere, which can create serious threats to BAT, but, nevertheless, it is necessary to work on improving the technology, since BAT's efficiency depends on the Ethereum network.
Ecosystem Development
The BAT platform is built on the Ethereum blockchain and utilizes the PoW consensus algorithm. As a result, its functionality depends on the work of Ethereum and has a limited throughput capacity, which may adversely affect the development of the ecosystem in the future.
In general, the project ecosystem is developing very rapidly compared to its rivals. The main company involved in the development of BAT is Brave Software Inc. The team has significantly increased the client base and expanded the partnerships, which distinguishes it among other projects. A centralization of power is observed in the project ecosystem, but most likely, the platform will become more decentralized over time.
The main two components of the BAT platform are the Brave browser and the BAT token. The BAT token is built on the Ethereum network; therefore, the BAT project has no own nodes that support the BAT network. The graph below shows that most of the Ethereum nodes on which it relies are located in the USA, China, and Canada, which are about 77% of all nodes in the network.
Node Distribution (Ethereum)
The following graph shows the hash rate distribution among mining pools. The first pool, Ethermine, has 25.7% of the computing power of the entire network, Sparkpool – 22.5%, Nanopool – 13.5%, f2pool2 – 10.3%, miningpoolhub1 – 6.3%. In total, this is 78.3% of the total computing power of the network.
This shows that the Ethereum network is subject to centralization of computing power, therefore, it may be vulnerable to attacks, although research by ConsenSys suggests otherwise. If Ethereum IS vulnerable, the functioning of the BAT token might also be disrupted.
In addition, the centralization of power is manifested within the BAT ecosystem itself. To verify this fact, it is enough to look at the distribution of tokens among top wallets. It can be seen that there is a weakly-expressed centralization of power, although to a lesser extent than most of its competitors.
If we analyze the wallets in detail, we can see that the first wallet is the User Growth Pool Reserve. This wallet has a purpose for the project and it is not the property of one holder. The next two wallets belong to two major exchanges, therefore, it is normal that they have such large amounts of tokens. It's even good that there are such volumes on the exchanges, which indicates the interest in this token. Thus, it turns out that the seven first wallets control only 13.7% and this is much less than the overall top 10 figure of 49.6%, and indicates a somewhat weaker manifestation of centralization.
If we analyze the top-100 wallets, we discover that in addition to 18% of tokens reserved in the pool for users, another 0.55% are locked up for the team. Furthermore, 6 exchanges control about 20.8% of all tokens, and only 40.3% of tokens remain, which are controlled by 90 wallets. This shows that there is the centralization of power to some extent, but it is not as significant as at first glance.
If we compare BAT with its competitors, we can see the following token distribution by top-10 wallets:
AdEx – 75% (31% – exchanges; 44% – holders)
AdToken – 90% (38% – exchanges; 52% – holders)
DATA – 82% (50% – exchanges; 30% – locked for the team, 2% – holders)
Steem – 22% (21% – exchanges).
The centralization of power in the BAT ecosystem is comparatively lower than that of its competitors, except for Steem. Most likely, with the growth of the community and the number of active users, the User Growth Pool Reserve will be fully distributed among users. That is, that 18% of tokens will be owned by a large number of users. Consequently, the top-10 wallets will contain 18% fewer tokens. This, in turn, will lead to a decrease in the centralization of power in the BAT ecosystem.
Financing of their activities is carried out at the expense of tokens collected during the Token Sale (156,250 ETH or ~$35 million).
In addition, the Brave browser will charge 15% of the advertiser's payment, which pays publishers (70% of the total) for placing ads and users (15% of the total) for viewing ads. Thus, the team will have a permanent source of funding for the development of the BAT ecosystem.
If we open the GitHub of the BAT project, we can see that it's not only the BAT team working on the project. There are external developers who help to develop the technology.
The main participants in the ecosystem are advertisers, publishers, and users. This digital advertising platform allows advertisers to increase the efficiency of an advertising campaign, publishers – to increase profits, users – to receive rewards for viewing ads and then utilize tokens in various ways.
The team is working hard on expanding the user base, as can be seen from the graph below. The number of active users increased from 1 million to 5.5 million during 2018, meanwhile, the number of verified publishers increased 11.2 times from 2,500 to 28,000. The team is successfully working on the development of the BAT ecosystem.
These companies help to increase the number of active users, extend the functionality of the BAT platform, allow users to instantly exchange fiat money for BAT tokens and more. This allows BAT to maintain its competitiveness and to cover a larger share of the digital advertising market.
As a result of the rapid growth of the BAT ecosystem, it has become significantly dominant over its competitors in terms of community size and network activity, as shown in the table below.
The BAT ecosystem is much more active compared to its competitors. For example, the BAT project has stronger support from the community, while its rivals have a low amount of followers in the social networks. As a result, the number of active addresses in the BAT network is significantly higher than these values for AdEx, AdToken, and DATA (the data is not available for Steem).
However, more transactions per day are carried out on the Steem blockchain. Steem has a more advanced technology that can process more and faster transactions. Since BAT is built on the Ethereum network, it is difficult to scale to such volumes. The entire network of Ethereum serves 554,180 transactions per day at the moment. This highlights the drawback of BAT when compared to Steem, but if we talk about its direct competitors such as AdEx, AdToken, DATA, then these projects have almost no active users, therefore, almost no transactions are carried out on their networks.
Basic Attention Token Economics
BAT is an ERC20 token built on top of Ethereum. The token is used as a unit of exchange in a decentralized, open source and efficient blockchain-based digital advertising platform.
Reward – as soon as the BAT platform is fully developed, publishers will start receiving 70% of the ad revenue, users – 15% for the attention attached to viewing ads, and Brave will receive the remaining 15%.
Fees – the transaction fees encourage miners of the Ethereum network to mine and confirm the relevant transactions. The size of the transaction fees depends on the Ethereum network and fees are paid in GAS. The same situation is also observed among competitors except for Steem and DATA: Steem has no transaction fees; the gas fee in DATA ecosystem will be similar to Ethereum ecosystem.
Overall, the transaction fees in the BAT ecosystem depend on the workload of the Ethereum network. This leads to the fact that BAT transaction costs can be more expensive than the actual value of the transaction itself.
Speculation – BAT is traded on many of the popular crypto-exchanges.
Payment – to stimulate the development of the BAT ecosystem, the team intends to provide many applications of the token. In this case, the user will have more choices how to use tokens. First, BAT will encourage publishers for placing ads and users for the attention, and then, the team will expand the range of the token use. That is, users will be able not only receive rewards for attention and donate tokens to publishers, but also receive other services:
– Premium content subscriptions.
– High-quality content (video or audio on an entertainment channel, news) may also be offered to users.
– Comments may be ranked using BAT tokens.
– BAT may be used within the Brave ecosystem to purchase digital goods such as high-resolution photos, data services, or publisher applications which are only needed on a one-time basis.
Overall, BAT services will go beyond the boundaries of digital advertising platform and, as a result, will attract more users.
The BAT team held the Token Sale on May 31, 2017 and collected 156,250 ETH (~$35 million) in less than 30 seconds. The BAT project also received another $7 million from various venture capital firms (Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital, etc.). The token distribution looks as follows:
– Tokens for Token Sale: 1 billion.
– User Growth Pool: 300 million.
– BAT Development Pool: 200 million.
The BAT project allocated 20% of all its tokens to encourage and stimulate the development of the platform, which shows the interest of the team in the successful launch of the project. Overall, the User Growth Pool is used to incentivize users to utilize the platform.
When installing the Brave browser, the user receives 35 BAT, which can be used only within the BAT ecosystem. If these tokens are not used within 6 months, they will be returned back to the User Growth Pool and may be accrued by another new user. Existing users can also receive tokens from this pool if they update the application or verify phone number. After using all the tokens from the pool, the team does not intend to issue new ones.
The team intends to use all other financial resources for development, marketing, operations and other expenses:
– BAT Development – 58% – to develop the existing Brave browser technology.
– Contingency – 7% – for unforeseen costs.
– Marketing – 12% – to expand awareness and adoption of the Brave browser and the BAT solution among the targeted audience, to grow the BAT community.
– Contractors – 13% – to third-party providers for marketing, PR, engineering and other purposes.
– Administration – 10% – to cover legal, security, accounting, and other administrative expenses.
It is also necessary to note that BAT issued a fixed number of tokens, that is, the project has a deflationary model of the economy. This suggests that with the expansion of the project community, the value of its token will appreciate. However, the deflationary models were also implemented by competitors so from this point of view BAT has no competitive advantage over its rivals.
Supply Comparison
Lead Team
Brian Bondy – is the Co-Founder and CTO at Brave Software. He has graduated from the University of Waterloo with BA in CS. Brian has been working as a software engineer for over 20 years. He founded VisionWorks Solutions in January 2010 and worked there until December 2010. The company developed backup software that was sold worldwide. Brian has worked for companies like Khan Academy, Mozilla Corporation, KineticD, and others.
Holi Bohren – is the CFO of Brave Software. She graduated from the University of Michigan with BA in Economics and finished Massachusetts Institute of Technology with MBA in Finance. She first worked as a financial consultant for about 5 years, after that, she has only held positions as CFO since 2002. Holi has worked for companies such as BiteSize Networks, Teachscape, and currently works as a CFO consultant at Armanino LLP and Venture Backed Technology Companies. In sum, Holi has over 20 years of financial experience.
David Temkin – is a Chief Product Officer at Brave Software. He graduated from the Brown University with BA in CS. David Temkin is a product development leader who designed many products used by millions of people: Cola, AOL, Apple, [email protected], etc. In addition, he co-founded Cola, a new kind of mobile messaging platform that enhances group messaging via interactive apps.
Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy founded Brave Software Inc. on May 28, 2015. And on January 20, 2016, the company launched the first version of the Brave browser. At first, users used BTC inside the Brave browser, but after the ICO was conducted, the team developed its own token on Ethereum.
A sizeable team of more than 70 people is working on the BAT project. In particular, the team includes experienced software, QA, machine learning, security engineers, and others. In addition to a strong technical staff, the team has employees who work on marketing, product development, and communication with the community.
Moreover, in order to increase their accountability and transparency, the team always publishes all its updates and achievements on blogs and GitHub.
It is worth mentioning that two professors work with the BAT team: Ben Livshits and Hamed Haddadi. This only strengthens the project team and enhances the credibility of its work.
Ben Livshits – is a Chief Scientist at Brave Software. He has a Ph.D. from the Stanford University in CS, worked as a senior researcher at Microsoft, and as a professor at University of Washington and Imperial College London. Currently, Ben is a Research Fellow at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies.
Hamed Haddadi – is a Visiting Professor at Brave Software. He graduated from the London Business School with MBA and has a Ph.D. in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from the University College London. He has a wide experience in User-Centered Systems, IoT, Applied Machine Learning, Privacy, and Human-Data Interaction and worked for many universities like the Queen Mary University of London, University of Cambridge, Royal Veterinary College, etc. Currently, Hamed is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Imperial College London.
The BAT team does not include legal staff, however, they operate under the legal counsel of international law firm Perkins-Coie. This partnership indicates that the team takes legal issues seriously.
This team brought together very experienced and intelligent employees who have the relevant experience to further scale the project. Their experience corresponds to their ambitions and they openly talk about their plans and achievements. The composition of the team is built in such a way that allows working effectively on the technical, marketing, financial and other components of the project. In addition, the team currently intends to expand its team even more.
Part Two: The Technology Case
Underlying Technology
BAT is a decentralized ad network that operates on the Ethereum network. This project is unique in the blockchain space in terms of technology because this is the only project that built a decentralized digital advertising platform inside its own browser.
BAT has the same scalability prospects of the platform as its competitors, with the exception of the DATA project, which is technologically stronger. Nevertheless, the BAT team actively works on the further development of its product, as seen from the GitHub activity, which shows the team's confidence in the future of their platform.
The technology of the BAT project is represented by three main components: Brave browser, BAT token, and Basic Attention Metrics (BAM).
Brave – is a fast, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks ads and trackers. This allows increasing the speed of the browser. As a result, Brave loads web pages 2-8 times faster than Chrome/Safari on the phone and twice as fast as Chrome on the desktop. This makes the Brave browser one of the fastest among its competitors. It also contains a ledger system that anonymously measures the attention of users in order to properly reward publishers.
Blocked Ads and Speed Comparison
The token is based on Ethereum smart contracts that enable users to make micropayments using BAT within the Brave Ledger. Its operation is based on the interaction of three participants of the ecosystem: advertiser, user, and publisher.
The Value Flow of the Basic Attention Token represented below shows the conceptual flow of the BAT token across all platform participants.
Value Flow of BAT
First, the advertiser sends ads and tokens in a locked state (Xa) to users. If the users view the ads, then the payment flow unlocks. The users are rewarded for viewing the ads with BAT (Xu) and they can donate a part of their tokens to publishers (Xu). Brave also receives a share of tokens and a remainder is sent to the publisher (Xp). In addition, users can buy extra services like premium content (Xs).
The browser contains a special page where a user can view the balance and a list of publishers to which the user is willing to donate tokens. The UI is very simple and convenient at the moment and it is most likely that in the future the user profile will be more functional.
Since it is possible to monitor user behavior on web pages, the BAT team decided to build a model that would reward users based on their attention. That is, the reward amount depends on the time during which the user reviews an advertisement and on the number of pixels that are in the user's view in proportion to relevant content. Anonymous cost-per-action models will be improved as the system develops. It is also worth to mention that all information about users stays on their devices.
Wallet Balance and List of Publishers
To accurately measure the user attention several metrics have been developed.
One of these metrics is 5 full views of advertising content in the active window for at least 5 seconds. Another metric is "Concave Score": "… a score which rewards a publisher for a thresholded and bounded function of the amount of time spent with the open and active page".
The graphical representation of this metric is shown below, where it can be seen that the relationship between the metric score and the time has the characteristic of diminishing return to scale. That is, for the first few seconds of viewing the content, the user gets one point, for 30 sec – 2 points, for 60 sec – 3 points, and for 12 minutes – 7 points.
Basic Attention Token Metric Score Over Time
The BAT team intends to build a platform where users will be rewarded for their attention (which will be implemented during 2019), while users on the platforms of its rivals may be rewarded for clicks or depending on their reputation.
The BAM system looks better than just rewards for clicks. However, it is hard to surmise whether the BAT model is better than a model built on reputation or not. This will be seen after the full launch of the platform. There exists a risk that users will create many wallets and view ads only with the intention to earn more tokens. This makes the BAT model a little bit vulnerable in comparison to the reputation-based model.
To protect user privacy the Brave ledger system uses the ANONIZE algorithm. This enables the Brave browser to collect user data anonymously and allows Brave users to make anonymous transactions. This algorithm utilizes zero-knowledge proof that proves a mathematical statement is true without knowing anything else about it. Let's consider how the algorithm is implemented in surveys.
– 1st step: a User registers and it is assigned a Master User Token. All information stays only on its device.
– 2nd step: the Survey is assigned with a signature key pair: Survey Identifier and Public Key with User ID who is authorized to take the survey.
– 3rd step: User ID generates a Single-token with Survey Identifier and Public Key to submit a response – this represents a non-interactive zero-knowledge problem.
This ensures that only an authorized user can complete the survey once, all while staying anonymous.
Simplified ANONIZE Algorithm
The use of technology that makes transactions anonymous in the BAT ecosystem distinguishes it from its competitors, giving BAT an advantage – and it is an attractive feature for users.
An important characteristic of any project is its scalability.
BAT, as well as AdEx and AdToken, use the PoW consensus protocol and the projects are built on the Ethereum network. Therefore, they can process the same number of transactions per second.
The Graphene technology of Steem allows it to process about 10,000 tps and confirm transactions almost instantly compared to BAT. Another direct competitors, DATA, is built on the Tendermint network and utilizes the BFT consensus algorithm, which allows processing about 200 tps confirming transactions in a few seconds.
Scalability Comparison
The team is working on the product development, as seen from the activity on the GitHub. The team has two pages on GitHub: the first one contains 137 repositories, and the second one – 45.
However, its GitHub activity is average compared to other blockchain projects.
The BAT roadmap is very detailed and transparent. The team constantly works on updating it, regularly informs the community about existing updates and works on the development of its product as can be seen from the activity on GitHub.
The first roadmap was published on March 23, 2017, which indicated the initial path of development of the project in general.
Pre-1.0 BAT: Brave already has an anonymized ledger system for making donations and payments to publishers based on user attention. The secure vault using the ANONIZE algorithm to ensure customer privacy is an important piece of the BAT ecosystem which is already in place and deployed in Brave. Brave is already measuring user attention at the browser and distributing donations to the publishers using this system.
1.0 BAT: BAT wallet integrated with the Brave browser. Verification and transactions to be handled by Brave's internal Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) ledger system to protect individual user anonymity from advertisers, publishers and third parties. Ad inventory will be valued, and transactions will be calculated from reported Basic Attention Metric (BAM) data.
Beyond 1.0 BAT: Make the transfer and verification process entirely distributed on Ethereum using a state channel scheme with zero knowledge proof protocol for ensuring user privacy. Add alternate BAM metrics based on advertiser feedback. This will allow for full user privacy as well as a decentralized audit trail for advertisers, users and publishers to ensure they received correct payments for the advertising delivered through the BAT network.
The first part of this roadmap points to three main components: payment mechanisms, ANONIZE algorithm, and measurement metrics of user attention. These components have already been implemented long before the first roadmap was written.
Then after conducting token sale on May 31, 2017, the team published an updated roadmap that contained the second and the third parts ("1.0 BAT" and "Beyond 1.0 BAT") of the first roadmap. The second roadmap was published on June 17, 2017 and was very detailed one. The team worked hard to complete all of the tasks, which show the BAT project in a positive light.
BAT Mercury (summer 2017)
– BAT wallet integrated into Brave.
– Convert Brave Payments from bitcoin to BAT.
– Extend Brave's secret-key sync to include the Brave ledger and wallet.
– Compile demand-side dashboard data into BAT ad and offer catalog that is downloaded and updated on-device; scraped and mock ads/offers with micro-BAT subsidized revenue.
– Develop the on-device machine learning models that privately match catalogued ads and place them in user-private slots based on user intent signals, from search queries (you own your query log, Google does not) to surfing, to researching, to purchasing.
– Design research and engineering development of user-private ad slot form factors.
– Measure ad engagement and user satisfaction via Basic Attention Metric (BAM) system.
– Extend the Brave Ledger ANONIZE ZKP-based proof protocol (Zero Knowledge Proof) to convey ad attributions and confirmations as well as transactions.
BAT Gemini (fall 2017/winter 2018)
– KYC (humint + machine learning), rate, and flow control for anti-fraud.
– User Growth Pool (UGP) grants to users who opt into the new model.
– Further machine learning development and optimization.
– Further demand-side dashboard to BAT ad/offer catalog work.
– Ledger- and Ethereum-attested dashboard analytics for early publishers interested in BAT indirect ad partnership trials.
– User-private ad trials with select agency and other demand-side / lead-gen partners.
– One premier publisher partner to co-develop publisher-provided inventory system.
– Revenue as soon as system performs as well as or better than status quo ad-tech.
BAT Apollo (rest of 2018)
– Real ad revenue that scales with user growth; further UGP grants & growth hacks.
– Donation flow fee revenue, smaller but scaled as far as possible via incentives to users who get BAT revenue from ads and want to give back to their pinned and top sites.
– Major work to move from Brave Ledger confirmation and revenue flows to entirely decentralized on Ethereum flows using a state channel with ZKP for anonymity.
– Evolved BAM options based on premium attention models — price discovery at high end Aggregated, large-anonymity-set reports and forecasts on the Ethereum blockchain, with competitive demand (advertiser) and supply (publisher) dashboards for performance measurement, optimization and sales planning.
– BAT integration into other apps based on open source & specs for greater ad buying leverage and publisher onboarding.
BAT Mercury components were launched on October 12, 2017 in version 0.19 of the Brave browser. The team completed this part of the roadmap one month late because they wanted to ensure the high standards their users deserve.
The BAT team also published the information about BAT achievements in 2017 and goals for 2018 in their blog on January 12, 2018, which indicated that the most of BAT Gemini goals were achieved as well. The next major update was published on April 27, 2018: Brave Partners with YouTube Stars Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco, which testifies to the rapid growth of the user base, publishers and partners.
The latest roadmap was published on GitHub, which covers all the important milestones of the project from December 2017 to the current moment.
Also, the team posted Brave Ads Roadmap, according to which user ads and publisher-integrated ads will be implemented in 2019. That is, users, publishers, and the Brave browser will receive their share of the advertiser's payment. The implementation of this feature can be the main catalyst for the subsequent development of the project.
Part Three: The Investment Case
BAT Token Performance
BAT token is in the top-34 coins by market capitalization and it is in the top-44 coins by trading volume (24H).
The price dynamics of the BAT token are represented in the graph below, where it can be seen that after ICO was conducted in May 2017, the price of the token reached its first maximum as early as June 4, 2017 (~$0.344).
After that, there is price fluctuation until December 2017, after which the price rises sharply under the influence of the entire market and reaches its ATH in January 2018 (~$0.972).
Then, throughout 2018, the price of the BAT token reached three more peaks, two of which were in May and June under the influence of the market, and the last peak occurred in November due to the fact that Coinbase announced the listing of BAT token.
In general the prices fall under the influence of the entire market, but the BAT price falls more slowly than its competitors. Since the January ATH, the price of BAT has dropped by 87%, while the prices of tokens of all its rivals have fallen by more than 96%.
Overall, the price change of the BAT token is explained by the dynamics of the entire market. However, there are also fundamental reasons for the rise and fall in price, which was observed, for instance, in November of 2018.
Price Comparison
BAT / AdEx / adToken / DATA / Steem Price Comparison
The main currencies pairs with which BAT is traded are BTC (65.6%), USDC (12.6%), KRW (12.4%), ETH (6.81%), and BNB (1.60%).
This may indicate that the channel for buying BAT directly for fiat is still weak. Users have to buy BTC or ETH first, and then change it to BAT. The pair of BAT/BNB is also popular because most of the trading is carried out on the Binance exchange (57.2% of all trading volume), which encourages BAT/BNB trading.
The pair of BAT/KRW is traded on the Upbit exchange (25.9% of all trading volume). The BAT token is traded as well on the Bittrex exchange (14.3%).
The presence of BAT tokens on such three crypto-exchanges indicates its high liquidity
Volume Comparison
The trading volume of BAT token and its competitors is represented in the chart below, where periodic fluctuations are traced. The trading volume of tokens fall when the entire market falls, and grows when the market rises. The last three months, the trading volume has fallen, which indicates their dependence on the behavior of top cryptocurrencies.
Trading Volume Comparison
Since 30-day volatility values are not available to competitors of BAT, Ethereum and Tron were chosen for the comparison by the same logic mentioned before. As seen in the figure below the BAT price is more volatile than ETH and TRX prices. Overall, the dynamics of 30-day volatility values of all projects are the same. That is, BAT, ETH, TRX follows the entire market.
30-Day Volatility
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China's response, whilst rather lukewarm, marked the first time it has joined criticism of its neighbour. China's deputy ambassador to the UN, Liu Zhenmin said: "Myanmar and the Myanmar people must resolve this issue, and we tell the people of Myanmar "good luck".
It took six days of wrangling to agree the wording. The final version dropped demands for a full accounting of what happened to arrested demonstrators. Thousands are believed to have been rounded up, many detained while the UN's own envoy was in the country.
Ibrahim Gambari is expected to return to Myanmar for more talks.


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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." Writer Albert Camus
Can we make this weekend at the movies even better than last weekend, when Jurassic World: A Fallen Kingdom was the world to be a part of? Within that empire, are we free to choose our own larger-than-life heroes, seeing as how so many of them strangely love to appear during the summer? Ant-Man and the Wasp certainly hope so, as they plan to heroically take over the town. The Incredibles 2 have the freedom to duke it out with the latest Marvel wonders, in their own family-friendly way, of course (much to the relief of family guy Ant-Man).
Hardly possessing a warm, fuzzy feeling, will The First Purge involve us seeing the last of the Ocean's 8 ladies, who are heroines only in their own self-serving minds? Can Sicario: Day of Soldado find more moments traveling the brutal Hollywood circuit alongside our favorite Uncle Drew, who ran freely through our cinematic courts his first time out to play, collecting countless fans along the way?
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Maharashtra's children shouldn't lose hot cooked meals to ready-to-cook premixes
Apart from the question of palatability, the premixes supplied to children in rural Maharashtra's anganwadis may not be as nutritious as hot cooked mealsanalysis Updated: Sep 07, 2017 10:33 IST
The flip-flops in India's child nutrition policies are nowhere better exemplified than in the recent decision of the Maharashtra government to tender, for a five-year period, the supply of fortified ready-to-cook premixes to feed children aged 3-6 years at rural anganwadis in the state. What does this imply for the supplementary Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) nutrition programme and what are its other likely ramifications?
Quality and quantity of food supply are the issues of primary concern. It is difficult to take at face value the tender stipulations that quality checks will be carried out by the supplier organisations at their in-house laboratories. Nor can one take comfort from the provision for quality checks at independent laboratories ordered by the ICDS commissioner. In any case, public laboratories in India are notorious for delays in furnishing reports, enabling defaulters to get away. There is also the issue of whether the premixes supplied to children will be as nutritious as hot cooked meals, apart from the question of palatability. With a provision of only ₹6 per child per day, there can be a very real apprehension that the suppliers will be tempted to compromise on quality to maintain their profit margins. There could also be a temptation to supply less quantities to anganwadis and divert supplies to the open market, as has been observed in recent studies of the ICDS nutrition programme in Uttar Pradesh.
The concerns about poor programme delivery are amplified by the top-down approach adopted, with the pre-mix being distributed directly from the project to the anganwadi. There are no provisions for social accountability through monitoring of supplies and service delivery by village level institutions, ranging from gram panchayats to mothers' groups.
Although the tender document specifies that only women self-help groups, mahila mandals, mahila sansthas and village communities are eligible to bid, the onerous conditions regarding turnover, manufacturing and in-house food testing facilities rule out any small group being successful. Maharashtra has a past of private contractors acting as fronts for women's groups and there is no reason why history should not repeat itself. Moreover, the concentration of production in one or a few organisations denies economic benefits to a very large number of rural women's groups that earn their daily bread through the preparation of meals for children.
Ultimately, the issue boils down to whether massive government funds should be channelised to a select few organisations. Neither the ends of efficiency (given the scope for possible quality and quantity aberrations) nor those of equity (concentration of supply in a few hands) or empowerment (no role for participation of local governments and communities) are being met, with questions arising regarding the possible violation of the repeated directions of the Supreme Court over the past 13 years. Does such a policy behove a land that is the karmabhumi of the visionary king Shahu Maharaj, social activist Jyotiba Phule and economist-reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar?
Venkatesan Ramani is former director general of the Maharashtra State Nutrition Mission.
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The Museum houses permanent and changing exhibitions and also provides in-depth education experiences, innovative public programs, early childhood activities and entertaining holiday activities. We aim to connect visitors to Queensland, its people and Queensland's place in the world – past, present and future, through exhibitions, displays and public programs.
Behind the scenes, the Museum is home to millions of objects, specimens and artefacts that tell the changing story of Queensland.
A popular destination for South East Queenslanders as well as visitors from around Australia and overseas, the Museum has welcomed over 10 million visitors since it was established at its current site at South Bank over 20 years ago.
Part of Brisbane's Cultural Precinct, Queensland Museum is within walking distance of the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the State Library of Queensland. The Cultural Precinct sits alongside South Bank, a vibrant mix of parkland, recreational and commercial space on the Brisbane River across from the Central Business District.
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The American Marketing Association enjoys a strategic alliance with the National Center for Middle Market. As you know middle-market enterprises are critical to the Texas and San Antonio economy. The center defines middle-market enterprises as firms with revenues between $10 million and $1 billion.
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The grooves in spline shafts are created by broaching machines, specifically spline cutting machines. Broaches, or metal tools with a row of successively larger teeth, are used to cut various materials like wood, metal and plastic. They can be used to cut holes or to alter the surface of a product.
In the manufacture of spline shafts, blind broaches, which are also known as external broaches, are used on the material's surface to cut the furrows along the length of the shaft. As the spline rotates, these grooves interlock with the matching grooves in the mating piece; this connection enables a spline gear to transfer torque.
The production broaching of many spline shafts at once is practiced in certain industries that require these gears in every product they make, such as the automotive industry and certain sports equipment facilities that make bicycles.
Broaching teeth are the ridges on the spline shaft that perform the cutting action. They come in many different sizes and spacing configurations, depending on what generalized spline style they are apart of.
For example, a parallel key spline has parallel, equally spaced groves in both the radial and axial directions, while serrations are spline shafts that have a "V" formed by their equally spaced grooves.
The configuration of the teeth is the main aspect that separates these two shafts. Another common shaft is the involute spline, which works much like an involute gear works, with the uniform pattern of teeth that when rotating, intersect perfectly with each other and cause the torque that powers a vehicle or machine.
Crowned splines are in essence involute splines, except with slightly modified teeth that allow for misalignments. One more well known style is the ball spline, which involves a ball bearing on the end of the teeth for a varied amount of motion.


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The community is invited to attend an Open House meeting to discuss the upcoming Main Street project and Downtown Hartsville Transportation Study.
The Open House will be held on Monday, May 22 from 4-6 p.m. at the Hartsville Community Center (old Co-op building) on Main Street. Design consultant firm Kimley-Horn will host the discussions.
"Anyone interested can offer input, and it may be valuable input," said County Mayor Carroll Carman. "They are there to answer questions for the community."
In 2016, Trousdale County was awarded a Streetscape grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation for improvements along Main Street. The grant covers $840,000, which includes a match of $140,000 from the county, which was approved last year by commissioners.
The Streetscape project will involve remodeling and improving Main Street from the post office to the intersection at River Street. Improved sidewalks, revamped parking, crosswalks and greenery are all intended to be part of the project. A start date for the project has not yet been determined.
"This grant gives communities in need of infrastructure improvements a chance to enhance the pedestrian and vehicular functionality and aesthetic," said Nate Sweitzer, a landscape architect analyst with Kimley-Horn. "In Hartsville's case, this grant gives them an opportunity to improve the downtown infrastructure to help strengthen the local economy and create a safer environment. For Hartsville, this includes sidewalks, on-street parking, travel lanes, curbs, landscaping, etc."
Sweitzer compared the possibilities to that of Gallatin, which received a similar grant a few years ago to redesign its downtown square.
The county also received a $175,000 grant from TDOT last year for a study of transportation needs along Highway 141 through downtown Hartsville. That grant is designed to help develop plans for future transportation systems, land use and growth management.
Recommendations related to both projects will be up for discussion during an open forum. For more information, contact the mayor's office at 615-374-2461.
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The Landing, at MediaCityUK, becomes home to a new Innovation Hub and technology incubator this month as part of Vodafone's commitment to Greater Manchester as one of seven UK gigacities.
The new hub at The Landing will give UK businesses, start-ups and tech innovators access to 5G, Internet Of Things, high-speed fibre and the very best technical resources available.
Vodafone has chosen MediaCityUK as a location for its incubator base because of its unique concentration of technology, talent and super connectivity. As MediaCityUK's dedicated technology incubator for high-growth technology and digital start-ups, The Landing has a growing international reach and a proven track record of supporting businesses to achieve rapid growth in the digital sector so it is the ideal location for Vodafone's new innovation hub.
Paul Dennett, City Mayor of Salford, said: "MediaCityUK is an emerging Smart City and one of the most vibrant technology hubs in the UK. With the arrival of Vodafone, it will be able to go much further and become an exemplar in the UK for how these new networks and interconnections will inform the way we manage future cities and improve the lives of our citizens in areas such as transport, energy and health."
Jon Corner, Chief Digital Officer for City of Salford and CEO at The Landing, commented: "I'm delighted to welcome Vodafone and their partners to MediaCityUK. The new Vodafone Innovation Hub at The Landing will be a significant centre for companies across Greater Manchester and the North to test, deploy and commercialise new applications.
"It's important to acknowledge that new technology – including 5G - is not just about faster mobile handsets. It will change significantly how we organise networks, how we transact and use data, and how we use and consume content. It will enable companies working in immersive technologies and artificial intelligence, for example, to develop completely fresh applications to daily interactions. We intend to unlock the whole of MediaCityUK to be a living lab for innovators and entrepreneurs working across such technologies."
Stephen Wild, Managing Director, MediaCityUK, said: "Partnerships are at the heart of what MediaCityUK delivers. This announcement, featuring another major global brand, places MediaCityUK at the very forefront of innovation and enterprise in the fastest-growing technology sectors. We look forward to the team from Vodafone joining the community of 8,000 people who already call MediaCityUK their home."
Anne Sheehan, Enterprise Director at Vodafone UK, said: "I am delighted that Vodafone, in collaboration with the Mayor of Greater Manchester and MediaCityUK, will open the Digital Innovation Hub located in the heart of this connected city. The hub at The Landing will give UK businesses, start-ups and tech innovators access to 5G, IOT, high-speed fibre and our best technical resources and we plan to roll out these innovation hubs throughout UK cities."
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: "As Vodafone's new Digital Innovation Hub demonstrates, global organisations are fast recognising the unique opportunities Greater Manchester can provide for testing and rolling out technologies like 5G. We are the UK's leading digital city region and we are open for business!
"Our advanced digital infrastructure, fast-growing tech sector, and world-leading university talent puts us in a perfect position to trial new technologies. We're agile enough to get up and running quickly, but large enough to test at scale before rolling out pilots UK-wide.
"The Hub complements Vodafone's new 5G testbed at Media City and adds to our growing digital ecosystem. With Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) opening facilities here, the new multi-university led Cyber Foundry helping local businesses build up their digital security, a digital skills Talent Pipeline programme underway, and the biggest public sector full fibre connectivity programme in the UK, Greater Manchester is rapidly fulfilling its vision of becoming a top-five European digital city region."
"The new Vodafone Innovation Hub at The Landing will be a significant centre for companies across Greater Manchester and the North to test, deploy and commercialise new applications."
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Early Termination of Probation
If you've been convicted of a crime in Broward County, probation may be part of your sentence. Sometimes terminating probation is possible. This means there may be an end to mandatory classes or counseling, as well as an end to drug testing and restrictions on where you go. A benefit of removing probation is removing the chance that you will violate probation terms and face upsetting consequences. If you are on probation for a criminal conviction, you should know that you may be able to petition for early termination of probation. A skilled Fort Lauderdale criminal defense attorney can evaluate your case and help you determine your legal options.Probation
Probation is also called community supervision. Under Florida Statute section 948.03, a Broward County judge has substantial discretion when imposing probation terms. These terms may include a requirement that you report to a probation officer on a regular basis, that you permit a probation officer to visit you in the workplace or at home, that you make a good faith effort to get a job or work in suitable employment, that you stay in a certain geographical area, that you support your legal dependents, that you not get arrested or violate the law, that you are prohibited from carrying a firearm without approval from a probation officer, and that you not associate with people involved in criminal activities.
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In order to be eligible to petition for early termination of probation, you must have finished at least half of your judicially imposed probationary term. This can include going to substance abuse treatment and performing community service. You must have paid off any restitution imposed by the court, and paid off financial obligations like the cost of investigation, fines, the costs of prosecuting your case, and any public defender lien.
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Quicker than a ray of light, Madonna might be leaving Warner Music Group, her record label for the past 25 years.
According to British music bible New Music Express that's the case.
She's said to be in talks with Live Nation, and this talk ain't cheap; the deal is said to be in the vicinity of £50.5 million. That's a hundred mil to you and me.
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Madonna's current contract calls for an (eagerly anticipated!) new album produced by Justin Timberlake - due out this fall - and a greatest hits package to wrap up her years with Warner in a tidy little bow. It could all be a done deal by the New Year.
Once she's finished promoting those she'll be footloose and fancy-free. [Insert your own joke here.]
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Now Showing - "Magnum P.I."
Hawaiian tourism never had a better poster boy than Mr. Tom Selleck.
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Now Showing - "Hawaii 5-0"
In keeping with Pop Culture Institute's celebration of all things Hawaiian, here's the first in a series of three shows which have featured tropical scenery with a side of crime-fighting.
Recently I had occasion to watch some old episodes of this show, and I was surprised to find it solidly written and acted. Even if Jack Lord's acting was often Shatnerian, his three dimensional hair always made me feel safe. Plus it kinda looked like Diamond Head.
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