I've been lurking in the group for a long time, and today I saw yet another argument about secondary market royalties, and I can't help but say: when it comes to royalties, it's not really about "whether it should be" but "whether it can be enforced." If you want exchanges and aggregators to all obediently deduct them, then it has to be written into the protocol rules, or at least have a default path that everyone agrees on. Otherwise, it ultimately becomes whoever has the most traffic gets to decide, and creators can only rely on shouting to defend their rights, which is exhausting.

What I worry about more is that once cross-chain/bridges are involved, royalties, licensing, and resale conditions become like puzzle pieces with missing corners—Chain A recognizes them, Chain B doesn't. In the end, it all depends on centralized back-end reconciliation, and when bad weather hits, everything mismatches. Recently, AI agents automatically placing orders and interacting have also become quite popular, but I see many are hyping up the "fully automated creator economy," while no one is really digging into the security models and permission boundaries... Anyway, I'm just observing for now. I'd rather buy less than risk future disputes turning into fuel for conflicts.