币界网报道：This is a snippet from The Drop newsletter. To read the full version, subscribe. Brave is one of the few web browsers to embrace crypto. It has associated BAT rewards tokens and a built-in crypto wallet, to name a few of its associations. But it’s also taken a privacy-focused approach — and hyped it up in its marketing to help differentiate it from other Chromium-based browsers. “We’re kind of in a metaphysical rebellion against the big tech surveillance powers that have grown up on JavaScript,” Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich, who created the JavaScript language, said at Blockworks’ Permissionless conference this week. “We didn’t think about this enough in the mid-’90s. Cookies were meant to hold your login token,” he added. “It wasn’t meant for third-party traffic, but that’s the way it’s grown, and JavaScript just added fuel to the fire.” Eich argues that internet advertising is an inherently “toxic system” in which the parties involved are “all fighting and deceiving each other.” But technologies that can use blockchain rails, like ZK Proofs for privacy plus “proof of humanity” verification for fraud prevention, can help bring about a new, browser-native, more private ad system. “We have to move to blockchains that are faster and privacy-by-design,” he said. @Brave passed 88M monthly active users (MAUs) in May 2025. On track to hit 100M in Q4. The well-known “summer slump” on desktop (schools out, holiday travel => people out) has set in, but overall browser + search growth remains strong. Also, we’re seeing nice growth in time spent. 1/6 — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 6, 2025 Brave started as a web browser because that type of product is a starting point with the potential to reach mass consumers. “It’s the general purpose app, the daily driver. We have more time spent than X, but with fewer users,” Eich said. Brave’s transparency page lists 38.6 million daily active users and 88.1 million monthly active users. While not all Brave users like this, Brave Search is helping the company’s AI business by using this data to improve its LLM (Brave offers Leo AI). “It looks like the browser is still important, but we’re finding that the other side of the browser coin is search,” the CEO said. Eich previously co-founded the Mozilla Foundation and its affiliates and worked on the Mozilla project for 11 years. He spoke on stage with Fahmi Syed, president of the Midnight Foundation, a ZK and privacy-centric chain related to Cardano. Midnight’s foundation just launched last month and plans to include BAT holders in its upcoming NIGHT airdrop. Great discussion with @brave’s @BrendanEich on @Permissionless about building a user-first web. We talked about privacy, wallet-native identity, and @MidnightNtwrk’s new token economics and incentives whitepaper. Watch the recording: pic.twitter.com/i0TPOlZ6jd — Fahmi Syed (@F_ZK_Now) June 25, 2025 Last month, Brave said it was adding Cardano support to the Brave Wallet, which already supports a number of chains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and more. In the Permissionless talk, Eich ended with some advice that might give vibe-coders pause: Rewrite your code. Then maybe consider writing it again, over and over again. “Human intelligence is not going to be surpassed by these [AI] models,” Eich said. “Be a human, write and read code.” Get news in your inbox. Explore the Blockworks newsletter: The Breakdown: Decoding crypto and markets. Daily. Empire: Crypto news and analysis to kickstart your day. Forward Guidance: The intersection of crypto, macro, and policy. 0xResearch: Get Alpha straight to your inbox. Lightspeed: All about Solana. The Drop: Apps, games, memes, and more. Supply Shock: Bitcoin, bitcoin, bitcoin.