Rarible, a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has seen a significant increase in trading volume over the past 24 hours following a public statement in support of maintaining NFT creator royalties. This comes as competitor NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea have rewound support for royalties and royalty enforcement, prompting other NFT projects to also begin rewinding support for OpenSea.Data from the analytics platform DappRadar shows that 24-hour fiat trading volume on Rarible reached $1,500 across 38 sales for Aug. 23, representing a 653% increase from the day before. This increase is much higher than OpenSea, which saw a 15% trading volume drop over 24 hours, as well as LooksRare and X2Y2 with respective 24-hour volume increases of 5.8% and 14%.Rarible’s volume rise follows co-founder Alex Salnikov’s statement on Aug. 22 that it “will no longer support marketplaces that neglect royalties” and by Sep. 30 it won’t aggregate orders from OpenSea, LooksRare or X2Y2. Salnikov said that “this space is about redefining the paradigm in which creativity is valued and compensated” and that “we cannot continue to standby as that promise is taken away.”In February, OpenSea scrapped enforcing NFT creator royalties, admitting it lost ground to Blur, another popular NFT marketplace that doesn’t enforce creator royalties. On Aug. 17, OpenSea announced it would shutter its royalty enforcement tool allowing creators to blacklist non-royalty enforcing marketplaces due to a lack of adoption.July data from analytics firm Nansen shows that royalties earned by Ethereum-based NFT projects hit a two-year low.

Information	Details
Geography	Global
Countries
Sentiment	neutral
Relevance Score	8
People	Alex Salnikov, Blur, Nansen
Companies	Rarible, OpenSea, DappRadar, Blur, Nansen
Currencies	Ethereum, Bitcoin, USD, ETH, BTC
Securities	None