Recently, I saw someone arguing about whether secondary royalties for NFTs should be mandatory. Honestly, I'm a bit tired of this "creators should be respected" slogan. Respect, of course, is necessary, but if the mechanism is broken, it’s broken. If royalties rely on exchanges/marketplaces to voluntarily enforce them, that just builds income on others’ goodwill; if enforced forcibly, it can easily stifle liquidity, and in the end, trades dry up, and creators get nothing.

My mom even asked me yesterday: "Aren't royalties just taking a cut when you sell? Why is there so much fuss?" I could only reply half-heartedly: On-chain, you can bypass it if you want, everyone just wants to pay less...

More realistically, now the market sentiment is half focused on the unlock schedule. As soon as staking unlocks, selling pressure and anxiety start to build. Liquidity is already fragile, and adding a layer of "mandatory fees" makes buyers even less willing to trade. To put it plainly, the creator economy shouldn’t always focus on that small secondary cut. First, think carefully about initial pricing, rights, and ongoing value creation; otherwise, it’s just using morality as a substitute for tokenomics, which is pretty awkward.