Building Beyond Crypto with Drew Potter & Ashton Addison - Blockchain Futurist Conference 2026
Brave just hit nearly 121 million monthly users, adding 3.5 million in a single summer month. So what comes after the ad blocker?Live at Blockchain Futurist Conference 2026, Ashton Addison sits down with Drew Potter of Brave to talk about how Brave Search quietly powers answers inside other AI tools, keeping AI private with Leo and bring-your-own-model, and the BAT 4.0 roadmap: stablecoin payments, x402 and MPP payments for AI agents, and a Brave card that pays rewards in $BAT.
In this fireside chat:
- How Brave grew to ~121M monthly users during the summer slump
- Why AI answers from other chatbots may actually come from Brave's Search API
- Leo, Ask Brave and running AI models locally for privacy
- AI agents, profiles and containers to keep your data separated
- Stablecoins as the on-ramp for non-crypto users
- The Brave card, BAT rewards, and where BAT fits in an AI-first world
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why people come to Brave
1:37 Search in the age of AI
2:57 Is Brave powering your AI answers?
3:13 Leo, Brave's AI
4:23 Privacy vs AI: bring your own model
6:12 AI agents and stablecoin payments
7:54 Profiles and containers for AI agents
8:41 Getting non-crypto users to pay with crypto
10:44 Rewards and first-time crypto users
12:24 Where BAT fits with AI
13:48 The Brave card
15:18 From 121M users to 500M
16:48 Closing
WATCH NEXT
Our full Brave interview with Luke Mulks on Brave Pay and Roadmap 4.0: https://youtu.be/aYq_5yurAb8
Read: Brave's Rewards Card waitlist tops 131,000: https://cryptocoinshow.com/brave-rewards-card-waitlist-tops-131000-ahead-of-bravepay-rollout/
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