Recently, the debate over the "optional royalties" in the secondary market has exploded again. To be honest, everyone wants liquidity, but creators also need to make a living. No matter how good the white paper sounds, ultimately it depends on how it's implemented on the chain: you write royalties as a "community consensus," but if there's no binding in the contract and the market just turns off the switch, I really can't believe in this self-consistency.

What's more awkward is that now there's also the wave of AI Agents/auto-trading hype, with a bunch of bots sweeping floors and automatically placing orders, claiming to be "more efficient." But no one pays attention to security details, and the small royalties creators earn are more like costs that get casually wiped out in this circulation.

I'm increasingly convinced that you shouldn't expect "gifted creators" to sustain long-term success with just one hit. Long-term success is about habits: continuous output, continuously coding rules into smart contracts, and continuously monitoring on-chain data. Anyway, when I look at projects now, I first check how they handle conflicts between royalties and incentives, not just their slogans. That's all for now.