Brave Rewards is a program that lets you earn tokens that you can use to redeem rewards or support the sites you visit. Brave Rewards is composed of a few different features: Brave Ads and Contributions.

Brave Ads allows you to earn Basic Attention Tokens (or "BAT") for seeing privately-matched ads that you can control. On-Demand Contributions allow you to make on-demand tips to websites and content creators, such as your favorite YouTube channels, Twitter users, Twitch streamers, and more.

You do not need to participate in Rewards in order to enjoy Brave. However, note that sponsored images on the New Tab Page are on by default, but can easily be disabled. (If you enable Brave Rewards, you will earn for the New Tab Page sponsored images you see.)

To begin earning for seeing Brave Ads, you'll need to connect an account from one of our custodial partners or with your self-custody wallet. This will give us a place to send you your BAT earnings each month.  Once you connect an account, you'll unlock the full Brave Rewards experience. For example, in addition to earning for Brave Ads, you'll also be able to send contributions to websites and creators.

On-Demand contributions can be done at any time. You can make one time contributions to sites or channels.

To automatically send a contribution of some amount every month to a creator, toggle on the "recurring contribution" option when making an on-demand contribution. Your contribution will recur every 30 days automatically. 

Users decide what works for them. You may use one, both, or neither of these features in Brave. 

On-Demand contributions must be set up manually by nature, so users who don’t wish to tip don’t need to interact with this functionality.

Please note, recurring contributions are only available for custodial-connected Rewards accounts.

A verified website/channel is one that has registered with the Brave Rewards program for Creators, allowing it to receive BAT contributions from Brave users.

Note: A site’s verification status does not represent a business partnership or endorsement by Brave Software.

In the contribution panel, verified websites are marked with a blue checkmark, and will show text that reads “Verified Creator”. The contribution panel can be accessed by pressing the BAT logo in the URL bar.

Brave does not collect personal user data, and would never sell any data to advertisers. With Brave Ads, ads presented are based on your interests, as inferred from your local browsing behavior. No personal data or browsing history ever leaves your browser. 

Due to regulations, some countries are not eligible to participate in Brave Rewards. See our article on restricted jurisdictions.