Lately there's been more debate about whether secondary market royalties should be mandatory. Honestly, everyone just wants to survive: creators want a steady cash flow, trading platforms want to reduce friction, and buyers are more pragmatic—they want to pay less if they can. As a tech geek who’s been observing this for a long time, I just feel that until there's a shared consensus on the rules, don’t expect “moral self-awareness” to go very far.

A few days ago, cross-chain bridges had issues again, and oracles also reported abnormal quotes. The group immediately unified their stance: wait for confirmation… This actually resembles the underlying psychology of royalty disputes: once trust is broken, everyone pulls back first, and liquidity dries up very quickly.

I see complexity as an enemy. Could we turn royalties into a “verifiable service fee,” where paying it grants actual rights (whitelists, updates, governance votes, etc.), and not paying doesn’t force a rigid transaction? Anyway, when I buy NFTs myself now, I first check the contract and market support; otherwise, arguing later gets too exhausting.