Brave Browser Bets Big on Cardano—ADA Wallets Coming Soon
Privacy-focused Brave just threw Cardano maximalists a bone—and Wall Street another headache. The open-source browser confirms ADA integration for its built-in crypto wallet, letting users ditch clunky extensions.
Why it matters: With 50M+ monthly users, Brave’s move could onboard more normies to Cardano than a dozen influencer shills. Charles Hoskinson’s pet project finally gets mainstream distribution—no VC funding required.
The cynical take: TradFi bankers will spin this as ’risky crypto experimentation’ while quietly updating their own custody solutions. Brave’s BAT token didn’t moon—maybe ADA’s their ticket to relevance?
‘Protecting Privacy, Enabling Active Participation’
The announcement says that the partnership with Brave provides a foundation for “future innovation around engagement” with Cardano’s governance and, a blockchain developed by. The latter is described as an Input | Output spinout focused on confidential smart contracts and data protection.
Meanwhile, at the time of writing, ADA trades at $0.7937. It’s down 5% in a day. Also, it appreciated 20% in a week, 23% in a month, and 81% in a year.
The coin hit its all-time high of $3.09 in September 2021, decreasing by 74% since.
Earlier in May, Bitcoin bridging firmsuccessfully bridged BTC from theblockchain to Cardano and back again for the first time.
And this latest collaboration with Brave is “a natural fit,” says IO CEO Charles Hoskinson. “By bringing Cardano into Brave Wallet, we are not only expanding functionality for Cardano users in the age of on-chain governance, but also advancing a new standard for how blockchain networks should empower individuals—protecting privacy while enabling active, on-chain participation.”
Furthermore,, Brave’s reward token, now trades at $0.1606. It decreased by 5.4% in a day and by 30% in a month. It increased by 15% in a week and 24% in a month.
Furthermore, BAT reached its all-time high of $1.9 in November 2021, falling 91.5% since.
Brave Wallet is free and available on desktop, Android, and iOS, the team says. It added that Brave currently has over 85 million monthly active users.
