Lately I've been looking at the secondary market again, pushing royalties lower and lower. Basically, everyone just wants to pay less in friction costs, but creators aren't just air either. I used to be naive and think "on-chain rules are set in stone," but then I realized that as long as there are enough trading entry points, someone will find a way around. No matter how strict the contract is, human nature and liquidity can't be stopped.

I even tested the simplest method myself: listing the same NFT on different markets, with slippage + delay stacking up. Sometimes saving that tiny royalty isn't even enough to cover the transaction fees from bouncing back and forth... it's pretty awkward. Then I saw modularization and the DA layer heating up again, developers chatting excitedly, while ordinary users are confused: is the goal to make things cheaper, or to make "bypassing rules" smoother?

Last night I almost had the urge to "quit/uninstall" these market apps, feeling that all the arguing ends up with consumers and creators just resenting each other. After thinking it over, I didn't uninstall. I'll just consider it paying tuition first. At least I can still calculate the actual cost of each transaction clearly, instead of being led by slogans.