Royalty Enforcement
Technical mechanisms intended to ensure an NFT creator's royalty is actually collected on a secondary sale, rather than left optional for a marketplace to honor.
Royalty enforcement refers to technical mechanisms intended to ensure an NFT creator's royalty (see Kaavon's "NFT Royalty" glossary definition) is actually collected on a secondary sale, rather than left as an optional convention a marketplace or buyer can simply choose not to honor.
A documented, real trend across the NFT marketplace landscape has been several major platforms making royalties optional or unenforced, specifically to compete for trading volume by offering lower effective fees — making royalty enforcement a genuinely unresolved, actively debated issue across the ecosystem, not a settled technical guarantee.
Examples
- Several major NFT marketplaces have made creator royalties optional specifically to compete on lower effective trading fees, a documented, real trend.
- Royalty enforcement remains a genuinely unresolved issue across the NFT ecosystem, not a technical guarantee every marketplace honors consistently.