It’s raining outside and there’s traffic, and my cup of coffee just gradually went cold… Suddenly I thought about how the secondary market has been noisy about royalties again lately. To put it bluntly, everyone wants to pay less, but it’s also a real problem how creators are supposed to make a living. If you look at too much on-chain data, it can feel a bit cold: the moment royalties get bypassed, liquidity is great, but the works become more like “chips that can be traded anytime,” and creators are left only to keep them alive by launching new series—pretty exhausting.

Even more awkward is that now that this AI Agent, automated trading setup is here, many interactions don’t care who you are at all—what they care about is whether they can sweep the floor faster, or whether they can get around the rules… The storytelling is blown up to the sky, but nobody picks at safety details. Anyway, recently when I look at projects, I don’t listen to stories anymore—I focus on the practical paths for royalties to actually be implemented, whether the contracts leave any backdoors, and the wallet authorization records. Less fantasy, and I can sleep more soundly.