On your last paragraph, we can't standardize the BAT ecosystem until it is proven, and as it consists of more than the ERC20 token -- specifically it includes endpoint software currently developing in Brave, plus an anonymous accounting service alongside the Ethereum blockchain -- it won't be proven via the existence of the token alone.
On a future blockchain with anonymity, high throughput, and low fees (a trilemma?), the BAT ecosystem could be fully decentralized. That blockchain does not exist yet.
So our roadmap divides and conquers (the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo phases), and we will expand beyond one browser when the system is ready, some time next year in my best guess. In particular (as noted in my other comments here), we need a high-integrity and fraud-resistant open source SDK.
Note that the BAT has diffused since inception to over 69,100 holding Ethereum accounts (https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f6484306... -- you can see our User Growth Pool and Bittrex's liquidity pool as the top two accounts). The remaining roadmap work items are about token mechanics not token ownership.
On your last paragraph, we can't standardize the BAT ecosystem until it is proven, and as it consists of more than the ERC20 token -- specifically it includes endpoint software currently developing in Brave, plus an anonymous accounting service alongside the Ethereum blockchain -- it won't be proven via the existence of the token alone.
On a future blockchain with anonymity, high throughput, and low fees (a trilemma?), the BAT ecosystem could be fully decentralized. That blockchain does not exist yet.
So our roadmap divides and conquers (the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo phases), and we will expand beyond one browser when the system is ready, some time next year in my best guess. In particular (as noted in my other comments here), we need a high-integrity and fraud-resistant open source SDK.
Note that the BAT has diffused since inception to over 69,100 holding Ethereum accounts (https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f6484306... -- you can see our User Growth Pool and Bittrex's liquidity pool as the top two accounts). The remaining roadmap work items are about token mechanics not token ownership.