Brave retools its search engine for AI agents and plans a BAT overhaul
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BAT Roadmap 4.0 pushes the token toward machine payments, stablecoin privacy, and creator microroyalties as Brave courts AI workflows Brave wants its token to do more than reward people for looking at ads. On July 9, 2026, the company unveiled BAT Roadmap 4.0, a plan to steer the Basic Attention Token toward what it calls a “transactional attention economy.” The pitch arrives alongside a quieter shift. Brave is also rebuilding parts of its search infrastructure for a new kind of user: AI agents and the large language models behind them.
Source: Crypto Briefing
