Good news for Brave at last. BAT rewards payments are being worked on to be on-chain without KYC!

Going to credit u/RevolutionaryPlan2 for this post, that's where I found out about this new upcoming change. In a recent community call held for the BAT token, the CEO of Brave confirmed they are finally moving into a more decentralized way of distributing their reward tokens. (See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOU3GaT78w&t=3011s)

This was one of the arguments I was making for a very long time, Brave forcing users to KYC through an exchange not only limits the people who can use the rewards program having access to that exchange, but it also puts users in the dilemma of having to give their personal information to a shady company like Uphold just to receive their rewards they earned. It was cumbersome because you still would not own your BAT because it's not in a wallet you own the private keys to. Finally some good news for this project.

I'd advise you to keep your expectations low even if this is great to hear because it's common for the Brave team to mention new changes, and take months or a year before it actually materializes. We're probably very far away from this being a real thing.