Someone commented, "Royalties are just the creator's salary"… I understand that sentiment, but in the secondary market, to put it simply: traders only want liquidity and certainty. If they can avoid it, they avoid it; if they can't, they play less. No matter how beautiful the on-chain rules are, in the end, transactions are still routed through aggregators, private pools, or even executed off-chain and then settled "in reality." Seeing this kind of routing in mempool is quite common.
I'm now more inclined to see royalties as a kind of "social contract," not a mandatory tax. Of course, forcing
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