Historical retrospective · NFTs
EIP-2981 standardized royalty information for NFTs
EIP-2981 defines a way for NFT contracts to signal royalty recipient and amount information to marketplaces.
The interface aimed to make creator compensation easier for marketplace software to discover without forcing one universal payment mechanism.
The proposal became an important reference point in debates about creator royalties and marketplace enforcement.
Signaling a royalty is not the same as enforcing it across every transfer or platform; implementation and marketplace policy still matter.
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