I’ve recently been seeing arguments in the secondary market about royalties being opened and closed again and again. Put simply, what creators need most isn’t “moral condemnation,” but predictable cash flow… Yet on-chain, this stuff is too honest—if the contract doesn’t enforce it, don’t count on the platform to act on its own. You want me to keep making long-term investments under uncertain rules? Someone like me with a strong safety obsession immediately pulls back my hand.

That wave of AI agents and automated trading is also pretty similar: a bunch of people hype “fully automated creator economy,” but once on-chain interaction permissions are enabled, it’s essentially unlimited authorization. The royalties haven’t even been earned yet, and the wallet gets exposed first—just hearing that makes my scalp crawl. These days, I’m more like practicing restraint: when I see a hot narrative and my curiosity is itching, I pause for three seconds first and don’t rush to chase it. First, I’ll layer my wallet and set up offline signatures—being able to sleep at night is better than anything else.