My phone just popped up a bunch of red notification dots again: some platform is arguing loudly about whether “secondary royalties” should be mandatory. To be blunt, I’m conflicted too. On one hand, not paying royalties to content creators feels awful—once the hype is over, they can only end up with nothing. On the other hand, making it mandatory feels like a tax: it directly scares off liquidity. In the end, everyone just goes around it off-chain, leaving only “fake prosperity” on-chain.

Recently, there’s also a wave of narratives about AI Agents automatically placing orders and automatically doing large-scale interactions. Everyone keeps saying it’s “helping creators increase their income,” but in reality it’s more like a race to see whose scripts are faster… What about safety? The more pop-up signatures I see, the more my scalp tingles, but I can’t help clicking “confirm.” Anyway, when I see the slogan “support royalties” right now, I’m not going to get excited—I’ll wait first to see whether the rules can actually be implemented and whether they’ll push normal buying and selling into gray channels. For now, that’s it—complain if you want, but the chain still has to be used.