Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency for online advertising that pays website publishers for their content and pays users for their attention, while giving advertisers more information about how their ads perform. Of the 7 things it promised, it delivered 2, 5 are still open (5 with no date); nothing dated is coming up. It trades at $0.0748, #247 of all coins by size, 96% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 2 of 7, none late. Nothing dated ahead. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Pantera Capital; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- ✓Something aheadAhead: 2 of 7 promises delivered
- –Room to growWorth at least four times less than the biggest coin doing the same job, so the gap is real, not a guess.
Backed by Pantera Capital
- Origin29 May 2017about about 9 yearsTagged Made in USA on CoinGeckobasicattentiontoken.org, GitHub, Whitepaper, Wikipedia
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersDeveloper: Brave SoftwareCode activity not checked
- BackingPantera CapitalInvestor tags from CoinGeckoListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- Standing on the record2 of 71 confirmed by outside news0 headlines last month121,669 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
2 of 7
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
1 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Openno dateBrave says it will add support for the Solana blockchain in its browser and make it the default option for decentralized apps.
- Openno dateBasic Attention Token says its Roadmap 3.0 will reduce reliance on middlemen, add support for more blockchains, and create a program to help creators grow, in order to expand where BAT can be used.
- Openno dateBasic Attention Token says its Roadmap 4.0 will add a combined Brave Wallet, a payment feature called BravePay, a Brave Rewards Card, and a system to pay creators called the Creator Contribution Protocol.
- Openno dateBrave says its browser will support the payment standards x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol.
- Openno dateBrave says it will release open-source software development kits for BravePay and Rewards so merchants and developers can build with them.
- Delivered16 November 2021Brave says it launched a built-in crypto wallet in its browser that lets users store, manage, grow, and swap cryptocurrency without installing a separate extension.delivered 16 November 2021Confirmed by Brave, 16 November 2021Proof Introducing the Brave Wallet, a Browser-Native Crypto Wallet With No Extension Required Brave, 16 November 2021
- Delivered9 November 2022Basic Attention Token says it launched its first Solana-based NFT collection, called BAT x Adam Ape for Brave, to expand where BAT can be used in NFT marketplaces.delivered 9 November 2022Only the project's own word so farProof Only its own page says so; no article found.
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Payments
19 coins we checked say they are for payments, worth $1.64T together. #15 of 19 by worth.
No shared purpose group on file yet.
Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency for online advertising that pays website publishers for their content and pays users for their attention, while giving advertisers more information about how their ads perform.
Its listing puts it this way: Basic Attention Token (BAT) is an open-source, decentralized ad exchange platform built on Ethereum platform. Basic Attention Token held an initial coin offering on May 31, 2017 for its eponymous ERC-20 utility token, raising approximately $35M USD at the time in less than 30 seconds.
Problem it says it solves: payments. 41 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $1,745,498,830,279.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, Binance US
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $1.90 on 27 November 2021. Today is 4% of that.
100%
of all BAT that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 1.5B coins.
0% (4.28M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Its pages do not say what holding it gets you
That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.
- Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 1.5B of 1.5B.
- 4.28Mcoins still to be released, 0% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $1.90 on 27 November 2021. That is −96.1% from the top.
- #247by market cap, $111,876,714.
- 29 May 2017first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Nothing in the news this month.
Nothing matched in the last month from the sources we read. CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, plus Google News searches for coins with a record and the top 100.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency for online advertising that pays website publishers for their content and pays users for their attention, while giving advertisers more information about how their ads perform.
“The Basic Attention Token is the new token for the digital advertising industry. It pays publishers for their content and users for their attention, while providing advertisers with more in return for their ads.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-11
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
2 of 7 promises delivered. 5 open.
Others in payments networks: Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, eCash 8 of 10, ADI 7 of 15, and 18 more.No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 10 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.