Maybe add the payout total to your transparency page if people have doubts?
Re:Getting Started with Brave
by jonathansampson on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:30PM
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Payout totals are coming soon to that page; I've been working with our team to establish those APIs so that the build-script for that page can pull in that information
Back in 2018, Brave gave tokens from our own UGP (User Growth Pool) to users. These tokens could then be directed to websites, YouTube channels, and more. If the intended recipient wasn't verified, the tokens would go into a settlement wallet. But note, the tokens people were sending were almost entirely those which they first received from Brave (it was not yet possible to earn rewards at that time). So users were getting tokens from Brave, then earmarking those tokens for content creators.
More details at https://brave.com/rewards-update/