NFT Marketplace Wars See royalties disappear and creators are not happy

A war for dominance between various NFT marketplaces has seen royalties paid to creators disappear. As a result, NFT creators are turning to platforms that continue to enforce the payment of royalties, Coinbase NFT being one of them.

The war between NFT marketplaces has also been fueled by new marketplace Blur, which made its entry as the largest marketplace by trading volume in a space previously dominated by OpenSea.

Blur’s rise to the top of the rankings has likely been aided by lower royalty payments from other platforms, with some creators going so far as to block certain marketplaces from handling their collections.

So far, the blocking feature that has been programmed into some NFTs has hurt OpenSea in particular, given how angry some creators are at how the platform has stopped short of enforcing royalties.

Deathbats Club adds fail safes

American singer and creator of the Deathbats NFT collection, Matthew Sanders aka, wrote on Twitter earlier this month. M. Shadows, said that halting payouts from NFT marketplaces is something they have discussed in his team.

He made it clear that until the practice changes, certain “fail safes” blocking these platforms will be coded into his NFTs. He also said that from now on, Coinbase NFT is his “preferred marketplace to buy and sell Deathbats Club.”

“18 months ago, when we started [Deathbats Club]we had a discussion about how marketplaces collected royalties and understood the fact that one day they simply couldn’t comply,” he wrote, while adding:

“In response, we built some bugs that could simply block these platforms from accessing our collection.”

The NFT creator followed up by saying that everything they do as a club for their members costs money, and that taking on those costs by constantly creating new NFTs would be “pointless and stupid.”

“We hope @opensea is fine with appeasing the penny stock trade…is the ‘NFT community,'” he added, while pointing out that this comes at the expense of the creators.

M. Shadows added a day later that his team is “willing to play ball” with OpenSea if they accept creators, but made it clear that any solution without creator royalties is unacceptable.

So far, OpenSea has not changed its stance on the royalty issue, and the war for NFT creators and traders will in all likelihood continue, with newer platforms like Blur or Coinbase NFT possibly taking the top spots.