Brave Rewards makes it possible for Brave users to reward the content creators they love. If you use your own BAT with Brave Rewards, it will get delivered to the verified creators you choose. Full stop.

Grants are a bit different. The BAT that we use for grants comes from Brave’s User Growth Pool (UGP). We’ve made grants available so Brave users can easily experience Brave Rewards before Brave Ads is ready to pay users in BAT. We’re taking this opportunity to outline some common-sense restrictions on the use of grants to keep them in alignment with the overall goals for Brave Rewards.

As a Brave Creator:

Please do :

• Use Brave and accept your grants
• Auto-contribute to the sites you visit in Brave
• Tip the (other) creators you visit and enjoy
• Create great content that people enjoy

But do not :

• Create dummy sites or channels without real content, just to collect contributions from Brave users
• Self-tip your own verified channels/websites (using BAT sourced from Grants, ads or any other avenue)
• Install multiple copies of Brave to claim multiple grants
• Use any mechanism that results in a Brave browser contributing to your site automatically, without a deliberate action by the user of the browser
  

Note: As of October 8th, 2020 we will no longer accept new applicants for the referral program. Please see the official announcement here for more information.

There’s exactly one way to earn BAT from grants: by making amazing content that people enjoy. Anything else will lead to your account being flagged for fraud, and you’ll be locked out of the Brave Creators system. Our mission is to inspire creators to make the best content possible, we hope these guidelines make it easier to understand the best practices for tipping.

Thanks for all the wonderful things you make,

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