Recently, I keep seeing the secondary market get into a heated argument over whether or not to “pay royalties,” and it’s pretty much like a DAO voting session: people all say they support creators, but their fingers are all tapping “reducing friction.” To put it plainly, royalties used to be based on tacit understanding, but now they need to be enforced by code—yet once the code starts enforcing it, someone inevitably starts researching how to get around it... As a long-time lurker in this blockchain community, the more I watch, the more it feels like what everyone’s really fighting over isn’t morality, but who can pay less.

By the way, AI Agents and automated trading have been running all over the place lately. On-chain interactions are becoming more and more “simple,” and then security gets treated as an optional add-on. I see “simple” as a trap—just a word of caution. In the end, whether you’re a creator or a trader, the first thing people are usually taught isn’t the narrative, it’s the contract. That’s it for now.