Comment by strcat

> Tor Browser seems to be a project that requires multiple full time developers. I don't think GrapheneOS have the resources right now to do this alongside their OS development, device support and app overhaul plans.

We're in the process of hiring a bunch of full time developers and will have more people working on Vanadium soon. The bottleneck isn't money but rather building out the organization and hiring people. We get a lot of donations and are going to be greatly expanding the project, particularly with the funding being offered by Vitalik Buterin for hiring 5 more full time developers.

> Also please don't take this as any criticism of your suggestion, but there have been multiple 'privacy' browser projects based on Chromium for Android. It's a little frustrating that they couldn't collaborate some base like this to the open source community.

Many aren't using permissive licensing and a lot of it is a mess that's not possible to include in Vanadium rather than making our own implementation that's more focused on correctness and maintainability. GrapheneOS is going to have an increasingly large amount of resources so we wouldn't get much from working with tiny projects. We could hire people to work on Vanadium instead. Working with Brave would be compelling but not much else. Brave has a lot of stuff we want but usually it's quite messy and complex compared to what we want to have. We're using work from Microsoft on Chromium hardening that's not used in Chrome / Chromium such as the WebAssembly interpreter.