“Creators will gradually stop maintaining and perfecting their existing collections, and instead be forced to focus on always dropping new things.”
– Conceptual artist
Harm van den Dorpel, explaining the dramatic impact (leading NFT marketplace) OpenSea’s
decision to make artist royalties
optional would have on creators. “I used to employ multiple programmers to maintain projects on a daily basis,” he adds, describing how that vital income stream funded the ongoing preservation of his NFT projects.