In the past two days, I’ve seen the secondary market keep flipping the royalty switch back and forth, and my feelings are pretty complicated. To put it plainly, it’s normal for creators to want “ongoing revenue sharing,” but expecting every trade to voluntarily pay up is a bit like mysticism… Yes, the blockchain is transparent, but execution still depends on rules and incentives—without that setup, all you can do is argue.

What’s even funnier is this: on the one hand, people are shouting that AI Agents will automatically help you place orders and automatically carry out interactions; on the other hand, nobody is nitpicking the security details—reckless authorization, who has the final say on contract upgrades, and once the platform changes the rules, you’re left passive. Anyway, right now whenever I see the words “automatic,” I screenshot them first and save them, then later during reconciliation I’ll see who it actually makes things easier for. In the end, this whole royalty issue might not be about who’s right or wrong, but about who wrote the constraints into the default options.