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- OpenSea the largest NFT marketplace by trade volume recently declared that it will keep implementing creator royalties on NFTs.
- The platform announced that it will take this into consideration following the rejection of these policies by other markets.
- OpenSea issued a self-imposed ultimatum of December 8 to gather community input and take into account potential action plans, which it claimed included making creator fees voluntary for traders, only enforcing them on certain sorts of NFT collections, or introducing new enforcement techniques.
In response to strong community opposition, OpenSea recently declared that it will continue exacting developer fees on NFTs.
In a tweet thread, the company stated, “We will continue to enforce creator fees on all existing collections. “This week, both creators and collectors demonstrated a level of passion that has astounded us. We were listening for your input, and we clearly heard it.
2/ When we began seeking guidance from our community, it was to understand a range of perspectives (from creators, collectors, and builders in this space) that would help us make sense of trends and behaviors we were observing.
— OpenSea (@opensea) November 9, 2022
In response to a wave of competing marketplaces that had either rejected such fees or made them optional for traders to pay, OpenSea announced that it was rethinking its position towards enforcing creator royalty payments on NFTs. The NFT artist or creator determines the royalty rate, which normally ranges from 5% to 10% of the secondary sale price.
Many well-known artists, like Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, expressed their displeasure at the prospect of the market’s largest NFT platform ceasing to enforce royalties by publicly opposing OpenSea and uniting among themselves.
The community delivered the message “loud and clear” to OpenSea. The $13.3 billion Web3 startup stated that it was “seeking guidance from our community,” but data showed that the market’s proportion of creative royalty fees has been falling recently as marketplaces that reject royalties have grown in popularity.
According to OpenSea, “unless something changes quickly, this market is moving toward much lower rates given to producers.” “If this conduct persists, no policy we take will change this trend.
