---
title: "Boomerang: A new privacy-preserving protocol from Brave Research to decentralize Brave Rewards"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/boomerang-a-new-privacy-preserving-protocol-from-brave-research-to-decentralize-brave-rewards-4iznm2y6d
source_url: https://brave.com/boomerang/
type: article
source: "Brave"
published: 2024-01-09T17:07:24.846Z
updated: 2026-05-07T02:13:52.761Z
tags: ["decentralization", "zero-knowledge-proofs"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Boomerang: A new privacy-preserving protocol from Brave Research to decentralize Brave Rewards

**[Brave](https://daily.dev/sources/brave)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Brave Research has developed the Boomerang protocol, a decentralized and privacy-preserving incentive protocol, as an alternative to the centralized Privacy Pass protocol used in Brave Rewards. Boomerang leverages Bulletproof zero-knowledge proofs and Black Box Accumulators to ensure privacy while enabling verifiable reward generation.

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