Decentralized browser Brave is currently the default browser on a phone from major smartphone manufacturer HTC, technology news outlet CNET rumored Dec. 11.

Founded in 1997, HTC may be a Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer that was the leading smartphone seller in the U.S. at the tip of 2010, consistent with TechCrunch. The company's market share began decreasing, once it trailed Apple, Samsung, and LG with a roughly six p.c market share within the U.S. in 2014. In 2017, HTC held 2.3 % of the smartphones market share, whereas in 2018 it supposedly controlled less than a 0.5 %.

Brave — an open-source blockchain-powered browser that blocks ads and web site trackers — can reportedly be pre-installed on the HTC Exodus 1, “the 1st native blockchain phone” with support for multiple blockchains, as well as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) networks. The forthcoming project of HTC Exodus 1 was initially declared in May 2018.

Brendan Eich, co-founder of Brave and previously Mozilla, declared the partnership with HTC in a very tweet on Dec. 8, saying that “we are terribly happy to possess @Brave as default browser and to be operating with HTC on their Exodus phone.”

Brave browser uses Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), that sends advertisers’ payments to Brave and its users, and later on is accustomed buy premium content. In june 2017, Eich raised $35 million in 30 seconds throughout the BAT Initial Coin offering (ICO).

Last month, blockchain-focused electronics supplier SIRIN Labs launched its 1st blockchain-based smartphone known as FINNEY. based on each android and SIRIN’s open-source OS, SIRIN OS, the FINNEY phone offers a cold-storage crypto wallet and provides encrypted communications.

Also this summer, the Opera browser for automaton declared the launch of a private beta version that may embody a inbuilt crypto wallet. Opera’s crypto wallet can support Ethereum Web3 application programming interface (API) and can be integrated with a “default WebView” on high.

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