NFT Royalty Enforcement Collapse: 2024 Investment Brief
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Creator royalties fell 93% since 2022 as Blur and OpenSea dropped enforcement. Review the market structure shift and assess where secondary revenue is heading.
Frequently Asked Questions
- No. By early 2024, on-chain royalty enforcement was the exception rather than the rule. OpenSea sunset its Operator Filter enforcement tool on August 31, 2023, and Blur, the volume leader since October 2022, never enforced royalties. Creator fees became voluntary across most secondary trading.
- Treat secondary royalty income as unreliable. Nansen data reported via CoinDesk showed creator earnings collapsed roughly 93 percent between an April 2022 peak and June 2023, so allocators should model royalty revenue at close to zero rather than at the rate set in a smart contract.
- Projects whose treasury or creator economics assume enforced royalties carry elevated revenue risk. Capital allocators should underwrite NFT-linked opportunities on primary sale economics, utility, and IP value, not on assumed secondary royalty cash flow, since no marketplace-wide enforcement standard existed as of February 2024.
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