Recently, I've been translating updates from several NFT marketplaces again. The old topic is still about how secondary market royalties are "enforced." To put it simply, many protocol layers can only provide prompts or recommendations; if forced, it either gets bypassed or patched in a way that ruins the user experience. Creators naturally want ongoing income, but buyers also think: Why should I passively pay an extra layer of tax? Especially when liquidity cools down, everyone runs faster than anyone else.

Watching this, I always think of the current "yield stacking" model of staking and shared security—layer upon layer. It looks great on paper, but when pressure hits, the weakest constraints tend to collapse first. If royalties rely solely on moral persuasion, it's the same mindset as "trust the system to always give you returns."

Anyway, what I care more about now is: where are the rules written, how are they upgraded, who can shut the gate if something goes wrong... As for whether royalties will eventually become another form of compromise, I can't say for sure. What do you all think?