These days, there's been more talk about secondary royalties. Frankly, I can understand creators wanting ongoing income, but don’t treat the market like charity: on-chain buying and selling are composable, and people will always find ways to bypass “voluntary payments.” After reading more MEV battle reports, I’ve become more calm—my habit is to first run through the transaction path in my mind: who can cut in line, who can change the routing, who can break down the “royalty” you want into other fee categories… Once you understand this layer, you won’t be easily led by emotions.

Now, with the added narratives of AI Agents and automated trading, it’s getting quite hyped, but only a few are really focused on security: how the contract collects payments, how the front end signs, how the aggregator processes orders—any change in these links could directly “optimize away” the royalty. Anyway, I personally prefer to treat royalties as a product design issue, not a moral judgment: either embed the value into the experience/permissions, or accept that it’s unstable in secondary markets—just start with that.