Superrare royalties and NFT resale payments

Superrare royalties pay the original artist 10% of the NFT resale amount under the March 17, 2025 marketplace fee schedule. The seller receives 90%, while the buyer pays a separate 3% marketplace fee above the sale price. NFT auctions, accepted offers, and Buy Now purchases use these allocations within that schedule. Collaborator credit alone does not guarantee payment through a sale split. That NFT schedule does not establish royalty rates for Liquid Edition ERC-20 trades.

Key takeaway: Accepting collaborator credit does not update secondary-sale royalty registry settings, and a proposed sale split remains editable before its marketplace transaction.

Resale proceeds and the buyer surcharge

A resale connects the current seller, original artist, and buyer through separate payments, with the sale amount providing the base for the stated percentages.

The seller and original artist

The seller retains 90% of the NFT resale amount under the published schedule. The original artist receives 10% of the NFT resale amount under the March 17, 2025 fee schedule. The artist payment comes out of the sale amount, so it reduces the portion that the selling collector receives. The buyer surcharge sits outside that division.

The buyer and community treasury

The buyer pays an additional 3% of the sale price to the DAO community treasury. That payment is the marketplace fee. It does not increase the original artist's royalty percentage or come out of the seller's stated 90% share.

The first sale's different artist share

A primary sale gives the artist a different allocation because it is the artwork's first sale, before a collecting owner becomes its resale seller. The published NFT schedule allocates 85% of that first sale amount to the artist. The DAO community treasury receives the remaining 15%. The buyer's additional marketplace fee remains separate from this division, just as it does on a covered secondary sale.

Minting an artwork and selling it are distinct events; the primary-sale allocation concerns its first sale.

Do auctions change the artist royalty?

Auctions, accepted offers, and Buy Now purchases share the NFT fee structure described in the March 17, 2025 schedule, including its secondary-sale artist royalty.

Buy Now purchases and accepted offers

Buy Now uses a listed price, while an offer lets a collector propose a purchase amount. An owner can receive and accept offers while a Buy Now price exists, provided the artwork is not under auction or awaiting the start of a scheduled auction. Buy Now list pricing reflects the buyer fee, while auction pricing does not, under the same published schedule.

Scheduled and reserve auctions

A scheduled auction starts at its configured time. A reserve auction begins when a qualifying bid meets its reserve. Those start conditions change how bidding opens, without creating a different royalty rate under the stated NFT schedule. An auction bid also differs from an open offer: bidders cannot withdraw active auction bids, whereas collectors can withdraw open offers before acceptance. An outbid bidder receives their bid back.

When does an auction sale actually pay out?

An ended NFT auction with a winning bid requires settlement before the artwork and ETH change hands, so a closing countdown alone does not establish a completed payment.

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Either the buyer or seller can settle the auction through their dashboard. The end of bidding identifies the winning bid, while the later settlement transfers the ETH and artwork.

If nobody bids, the artwork owner must settle the auction, even though there is no winning purchase.

Ethereum block timing governs these auctions. The interface countdown approximates that timing, and late bids can extend the auction. The displayed closing time therefore cannot serve as a fixed payment deadline.

Collaborator credit and optional sale splits

A collaboration invitation proposes credit and an optional revenue split, while the seller's later marketplace transaction determines whether that proposed split takes effect.

Credit after acceptance

An accepted collaboration can display the collaborator on the artwork page and the collaborator's profile. This credit does not change NFT ownership, token metadata, or creator records. Showing a shared creative credit therefore does not, by itself, identify a completed payment. Profile visibility also has its own controls, allowing an accepted collaborator to hide or show the collaboration.

Splits at the next marketplace transaction

The proposed split can prefill when the seller lists the artwork, starts an auction, or accepts an offer. The seller can review and edit it before submitting that transaction. Acceptance of the invitation does not lock the proposal. The onchain connection comes from the recipients and percentages that the seller includes in a listing, auction, or accepted-offer transaction. Invitation acceptance itself does not make that payment.

Artist royalties on external marketplace sales

A sale on another NFT marketplace can bypass SuperRare's artist royalty system, even when that marketplace displays or indexes the same artwork. Token visibility does not establish equivalent payout behavior. The transaction's selling mechanism matters, including whether it actually routes a royalty to the artist.

Royalty registry settings after a collaboration

Accepting a collaboration does not update secondary-sale royalty registry settings. Collections manage royalty recipient settings separately, so collaborator credit alone does not establish a secondary-sale payout.

A collaborator who receives payment through a chosen sale split has not, through that split alone, secured the same payment on later resales. Neither profile credit nor an accepted invitation guarantees an ongoing royalty stream for that collaborator.

Liquid Edition token trades and the NFT royalty schedule

A Liquid Edition purchase involves fungible ERC-20 tokens connected to artwork, so the NFT resale schedule above does not establish its token-trading payment terms. A collector's token balance describes a position within that particular edition. Its share of supply alone does not specify artist income or a royalty payment to the holder.

Some projects also connect an optional Liquid Lens ERC-721 collection to the Liquid Edition. The Lens and the fungible token remain distinct assets, even when their artwork responds to shared activity. A traditional NFT resale uses the applicable NFT sale terms; an ERC-20 trade needs the terms that govern that token market.