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Sotheby's Launches On-Chain Secondary NFT Marketplace

Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks.

XCOPY "Departed" and "Right Click Save Guy" (Sotheby's Metaverse, modified by CoinDesk)

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Art Blocks Co-Founder Erick Calderon Uses Free Market Ideals to Defend NFT Royalties

Art Blocks, a generative art NFT collection, helped spearhead a movement to reward creators with royalties each time NFTs are sold.

Erick Calderon, the co-founder of Art Blocks, speaks at Consensus 2023. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Animoca Brands Co-Founder: Royalties Make It Possible for NFT Projects to Flourish

The computer gaming firm supports royalties. Removing them would only "send the industry backwards," said Yat Siu.

Yat Siu (Kevin Abosch)

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Blur Reportedly Finds Loophole in OpenSea's Blocklist as Marketplace War Escalates

The apparent workaround allows the zero-fee marketplace to list collections that have previously been blocklisted by OpenSea, following months of debates around enforcing creator royalties.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Artists Weigh In on the Battle Over NFT Creator Royalties

While some NFT marketplaces have switched to royalty-optional models, creatives share different thoughts on enforcing royalties through smart contracts.

(NatalyaBurova/Getty Images)

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NFT Marketplace Blur Delays Native Token Launch

The platform, which targets pro NFT traders, said it would launch its BLUR governance token on Feb. 14 after months of incentivized airdrops.

(Blur.io)

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Magic Eden Launches Protocol to Enforce Creator Royalties

The top marketplace for Solana NFTs had moved to an optional creator royalty model in October.

(Pixabay modified by CoinDesk)

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NFT Marketplace X2Y2 Will Enforce Creator Royalties, After Pushback

The popular platform was among the first to make creator royalties optional, inspiring other marketplaces including LooksRare to follow suit.

(Passakorn Prothien/Getty Images)

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OpenSea Makes Waves: Says Creator Royalties Will Be Enforced

“The world is otherwise burning, but we decided this couldn’t wait,” a representative from OpenSea told CoinDesk.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

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OpenSea Launches First Royalty Enforcement Tool Amid NFT Marketplace Drama

The on-chain tool will blacklist collections from being resold on marketplaces that don’t enforce royalties and will only apply to new collections listed on the platform.

(Unsplash)

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