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What is Basic Attention Token?

BAT

The Basic Attention Token is used in the Brave browser's advertising system.

The tokenBAT rewards users who choose to view ads and is paid by advertisers.

Supply and what is still to come

How many coins exist, how many can, who holds the part not yet circulating and what the schedule releases.

Circulating supply
1.499 billion BAT
Total supply
1.500 billion BATin existence, locked or not
Maximum supply
None fixedno fixed maximum
Issued or unlocked
99.7%outside the project's own wallets, of the tokens not burned
Held in the project's disclosed wallets
0.3%4.275 million BAT
Burned
534,143 BATsent to addresses that can never spend

A year in the market

Measured on the daily closes of our own US dollar price index.

Return, past year
−44.7%daily closes
Volatility, past year
99%annualised, daily log returns
Deepest fall from a peak, past year
−79.7%daily closes
Below its all-time high
−93.1%high of $1.77 on 27 Nov 2021
Correlation with bitcoin
0.55daily returns, past year; 1 is lockstep
Beta to bitcoin
1.22its usual move for a 1% move in bitcoin

Points to check

What our data shows that a holder should know. Each point is a measurement, not a rating.

  1. Price swings

    Its daily moves were 2.2x as large as bitcoin's over the past year (volatility 99% against 44%).

  2. Distance from the high

    It trades 93% below its all-time high daily close of $1.77 (27 Nov 2021).

Questions

What is Basic Attention Token?

The Basic Attention Token is used in the Brave browser's advertising system.

What is BAT used for?

BAT rewards users who choose to view ads and is paid by advertisers.

Is Basic Attention Token's supply capped?

No fixed maximum (no fixed maximum); the total supply today is 1.500 billion BAT.

Where is Basic Attention Token traded?

On 7 of the 11 exchanges we read: 7 list spot pairs against the dollar or a dollar stablecoin and 7 list perpetual futures. The token finder lists every pair.

Supply from our own nodes or the project’s published figures, prices from our own indexes, listings from the exchanges’ own instrument lists. Last update 9 Nov 2026, 01:00 UTC.