Crypto Twitter split as another NFT platform moves to opt-in royalties

Solana-based Magic Eden has become the latest NFT marketplace to shift to an optional royalties model, following in the footsteps of X2Y2 in August, albeit reluctantly.  Under the optional royalties m...

Solana NFT Platform Magic Eden Moves To An Optional Royalties Method

Solana-based NFT platform Magic Eden announced on Saturday it’s opting for an optional royalties method for its users.  Users will now have the option to pick between giving the creator royaltie...

Magic Eden Losing Market Share as Solana NFT Traders Reject Royalties

In brief Magic Eden’s Solana NFT market share is quickly falling as trading platforms that reject creator royalties are gaining popularity. Hadeswap, a decentralized exchange-like alternative to tradi...

SEC Probes Yuga Labs, DeGods Eliminates NFT Royalties

Yuga Labs gives back to Miami students and forms Ape Community Council Actor Anthony Hopkins’ NFT collection became the fastest primary drop in OpenSea’s history, selling out in 7 minutes OpenSea this...

DeGods removes NFT royalties, predicts all marketplaces will move to 0% model

Popular Solana NFT project DeGods has switched to a 0% royalty model, meaning it will no longer earn royalties on the sales of its NFTs. DeGods said that while it still believed that royalties are an ...

‘QQL has made its own law’

NFT platform X2Y2 hit back at the creators of QQL a day after  the popular NFT project effectively blacklisted its holders from interacting with the marketplace, saying it’s acting like the musi...

SudoAMM passes $50 million in trading volume across 90,000 transactions

SudoAMM, the royalty-free NFT trading platform, has achieved over $50 million in total trading volume, the crypto data tracker Dune Analytics shows.  The automated market maker (AMM) also hit other mi...

Summarizing The NFT Royalties Debate

September 19, 2022, 12:21PM EDT • 12 min read Quick Take Lately, the topic of NFT royalties has sparked a heated debate that has divided the market NFT royalties are not enforceable on-chain, but inst...

Overlooked by Investors, Royalties Are Fetching Princely Sums

Sept. 18, 2022 9:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) ADELAIDE, Australia—A rush of deals for royalties on resources projects is drawing attention to an asset that many investors didn’t even know ab...

Creators’ Opposition to NFT Markets that Forbid Royalties is Growing

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The foundation of the developing non-fungible token (NFT) market is royalty payments, which enables artists to make money when th...

Major NFT Marketplace X2Y2 Changes Royalties Policy, Here’s Why It Is Crucial

Vladislav Sopov Global NFT community discussing whether 0% creator royalties are good for digital artists in long run Contents Major NFT marketplace removes royalties X2Y2 team responds: “0% roy...

Why NFT Creators and Collectors Can’t Stop Talking About Artist Royalties

In brief Some NFT marketplaces are not honoring the creator royalties specified in smart contracts. Rising use of such marketplaces has triggered a debate among NFT creators and collectors alike. Cryp...

An NFT AMM set 0% royalties, raising concerns about artist compensation

Sudoswap, a decentralized marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), sparked controversy with its automated market maker (AMM), with chatter about the potential consequences of its fee structure reac...

Yuga Labs adjusts Meebits royalty terms to receive 5% cut of secondary sales

Yuga Labs said via Meebits’ Twitter account late Thursday that it will begin taking a 5% royalty fee on secondary sales of the pixelated non-fungible tokens (NFTs), beginning immediately. “...

‘We get hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties’: My late father left his investments to me and my sister, but gave me more than 50%. My sister wants half. What should I do?

Dear Quentin, My sister is two years older than me. We both are married and have incomes in the low six figures, and our husbands have similar earnings. When she was in her 20s, my sister and her husb...

The Chainsmokers Giving Away Streaming Royalties from New Album via NFT Drop

The album will be released on May 13. The NFT drop will take place on May 17. After the initial drop, users will be able to transfer and sell their tokens like most NFT products. The Chainsmokers, a N...

Chainsmokers Share New Album Royalties With Fans via NFT Drop in Music Industry First

In brief The Chainsmokers are the first to share royalties of an entire album with their fans. 5,000 fans will receive an NFT that entitles them to a share. The electronic music duo The Chainsmokers a...

Hexgo is the first and only NFT Project to Give 50% of Sales Royalties to Members

NFTs will be the next evolutionary step of crypto tokens. Similar to cryptos, NFTs were initially undervalued.  They were majorly used as tokens for the rare collectibles sales. However, following the...

Diplo to Release NFT Song on Tokenized Royalties Platform Royal

The Diplo NFT collection will consist of 2,110 LDA tokens that will get 20% of streaming royalties. The sale will start on March 29.  Thomas Wesley Pentz (or Diplo), a three-time Grammy-winning artist...

Spotify Says It Paid $7 Billion In Royalties In 2021 Amid Claims Of Low Pay From Artists

Topline Spotify said it paid out $7 billion in royalties last year to rights holders, in a transparency report released Thursday, following critiques from within the music industry that the streaming ...

NFT Marketplace pays royalties to creators

NFT marketplace on New Consensys mesh will pay royalties to creators  A new token standard will be introduced by the TreeTrunk  A smart contract has been created that allocates, collects and distribut...

Royalties and ERC Protocol update for TreeTrunk NFT marketplace

NFT Marketplace by TreeTrunk has started away with the potential of NFT artists  A master NFT can be minted by artists with the latest ERC update  The polygon update has launched a dozen virtual artis...

Kanye West wants royalties from Paparazzi photos, with the help of NFTs

Kanye West expressed his frustration at the paparazzi after being filmed arriving at Miami International Airport on Monday, as seen in a video posted by ET Canada. Kanye can be heard saying to the cam...

Disclosures Show Dr. Fauci’s Household Made $1.7 Million In 2020, Including Income, Royalties, Travel Perks And Investment Gains

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during … [+] a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U...

Royalties Introduced by Decentraland – TCR

Decentraland is a 3-D game where the users are allowed to trade the virtual properties through cryptocurrency MANA. As of now, any transaction associated with the NFTs provides 2.5% of the commission ...