Recently, I’ve seen the secondary market treat the royalty toggle like a button, flipping it back and forth. Honestly, the platform wants transaction volume, creators want to survive, and in the middle, a bunch of “principled” folks are arguing loudly.

Now I feel more like I’m watching a wallet story: the same addresses claim to support creators, but when placing orders, they still go to pools with zero royalties to get cheaper deals… It’s not entirely anyone’s fault; human nature is just like that.

In the past, I would have taken a firm stance, thinking that not paying royalties was “immoral”; now I’m used to first looking at on-chain flows and behaviors—who is continuously buying new works from the creator, and who is just flipping for arbitrage. It’s easy to tell the difference at a glance.
It seems that if the creator economy relies solely on secondary taxes, it’s very fragile when the trend shifts. Maybe it’s better to focus on whether “the creator can continue to deliver” as the core value.

By the way, recently, the testnet incentives and points system have raised everyone’s expectations again, and the group is guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens…
I’m actually a bit tired of it, worried it will just turn into “run after the reward and then disappear.”
Anyway, I’ll just watch slowly, with less emotion and more evidence.