Just a note to everyone and anyone reading this, the previous version (Muon) which was a custom fork for Electron is also based on Chromium. Brave has always had Chromium engine under the hood.
And for anyone who says its just another clone of Chrome please read this thread as to why its not.
Please understand Chromium is not Chrome. There are a lot of different things that go into Chrome. Just because the names sound same doesn’t mean both are same. There’s a lot that goes into Chrome which is proprietary to Google and is not part of Chromium. Chrome is a custom build of Chromium distributed by Google.
And finally Brave is not a custom build of Google Chrome. It is a custom build of Chromium Project which are two entirely different things.
I hope this clears the confusion. If you still have confusion please read this article which explains the difference