Over the past two days, I’ve been rehashing the controversy around the secondary-market setup of “royalties optional/default 0.” To put it plainly, everyone’s just fighting for liquidity: when the floor price dips, the number of people who are willing to pay that extra bit for the feels drops immediately too, and the on-chain data is pretty honest. Creators need to keep going, traders need to move fast—no one’s really “at fault”—it’s just that the mechanism hasn’t kept up.

I was also pretty set on following a certain creator before. I believed that if they keep producing consistently, they should be rewarded with long-term returns. But later, once I saw the order book getting thinner and the sell-offs getting more urgent, royalties became the last straw… so I quietly unfollowed. I didn’t block them—purely just because my mindset cooled down a bit.

One more thing: lately, the testnet incentives and points stuff has been stoking everyone’s emotions again, with people in the group guessing every day whether the mainnet will issue tokens. But what I care about more is this: if even an incentive as basic as royalties can’t be held onto, then what exactly is the long-term value that everyone is counting on to keep things going? That’s it for now—I’ll keep watching.