
Highlight Marketplace
Today, Highlight is launching a secondary marketplace for digital artworks created using our toolkit. Below is a detailed post explaining why and how we built it. Here’s a quick summary:Our marketplace offers artist- and collector-friendly features not found in any major marketplace. We have a lot more in store, but today’s launch includes:Rewards. To start, you’ll automatically be eligible for allow-list spots for curated primary drops by creating and/or buying Highlight-native listings.Conv...

Blockchain Royalties: State of the Market
This post is a companion to our marketplace launch announcement. In building our marketplace, on behalf of the community we did a deep-dive on royalties to bring transparency to them and hold ourselves accountable. See our public Dune dashboards, on which this analysis is based, here. Quick summary:Effective royalty rates for Ethereum NFTs have taken a nosedive in the past two years. Today, the average rate is about 0.8%, down 84% from about 5% just two years ago.Artists and creators have mis...

Highlight: The Marketplace For Believers
Welcome to Highlight—your NFT marketplace, reimagined. We've evolved to become the platform built for believers: those who see NFTs as not just digital ticker symbols but as vibrant expressions of human culture, creativity, and community. Here's what makes the new Highlight unique:Full indexing: Comprehensive indexing of all NFT projects across Ethereum, Base, and 10+ supported Layer-2 networks. This includes aggregated listings and offers from other marketplaces, ensuring the best ...
Onchain creativity, unchained. Highlight is a place to collect and create digital art & culture. ⎄ highlight.xyz


Highlight Marketplace
Today, Highlight is launching a secondary marketplace for digital artworks created using our toolkit. Below is a detailed post explaining why and how we built it. Here’s a quick summary:Our marketplace offers artist- and collector-friendly features not found in any major marketplace. We have a lot more in store, but today’s launch includes:Rewards. To start, you’ll automatically be eligible for allow-list spots for curated primary drops by creating and/or buying Highlight-native listings.Conv...

Blockchain Royalties: State of the Market
This post is a companion to our marketplace launch announcement. In building our marketplace, on behalf of the community we did a deep-dive on royalties to bring transparency to them and hold ourselves accountable. See our public Dune dashboards, on which this analysis is based, here. Quick summary:Effective royalty rates for Ethereum NFTs have taken a nosedive in the past two years. Today, the average rate is about 0.8%, down 84% from about 5% just two years ago.Artists and creators have mis...

Highlight: The Marketplace For Believers
Welcome to Highlight—your NFT marketplace, reimagined. We've evolved to become the platform built for believers: those who see NFTs as not just digital ticker symbols but as vibrant expressions of human culture, creativity, and community. Here's what makes the new Highlight unique:Full indexing: Comprehensive indexing of all NFT projects across Ethereum, Base, and 10+ supported Layer-2 networks. This includes aggregated listings and offers from other marketplaces, ensuring the best ...

Onchain creativity, unchained. Highlight is a place to collect and create digital art & culture. ⎄ highlight.xyz

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We’re 1 month into our marketplace launch and the publication of our royalty research report, and we’re excited to share some early updates on how royalties are looking on Highlight. We’ll focus on three higher volume projects in particular: Aux Arbres by Zancan, Outcasts, and BasePaint Masterpieces by TicklishArt.
(Note that the absence of Blur in these numbers is due to the fact that these projects are on Base chain, which isn’t supported by Blur.)

First up is Aux Arbres by Zancan, a free (with fee) mint with a stated royalty of 10%. So far we’ve seen 45 transactions on Highlight for an average royalty of 7.61%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 1055 transactions with an average royalty of 2.29%.
Second is BasePaint Masterpieces by TicklishArt, with a stated royalty of 5%. So far we’ve seen 172 transactions on Highlight, with an average royalty of 3.83%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 162 transactions for an average royalty of 2.23%.
Last is Outcasts, with a stated royalty of 5%. So far we’ve seen 24 transactions on Highlight, with an average royalty of 4.81%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 196 transactions for an average royalty of 2.20%.
In summary, the Highlight marketplace is observing a strong willingness on the part of collectors to pay a full or partial royalty and fairly strong month-over-month growth in adoption with an average market share of 9.07% for the projects mentioned (with the important note that these projects were chosen specifically for their Highlight volume in order to have a richer set of data to draw from, so this average won’t hold across the entire market).
While these are promising signs of life, a primary goal of ours moving forward is to figure out how to incentivize and reward collectors for respecting royalties on Highlight, thereby increasing the overall royalty-paying market share. Stay tuned for updates on that in the coming weeks and months!
We’re 1 month into our marketplace launch and the publication of our royalty research report, and we’re excited to share some early updates on how royalties are looking on Highlight. We’ll focus on three higher volume projects in particular: Aux Arbres by Zancan, Outcasts, and BasePaint Masterpieces by TicklishArt.
(Note that the absence of Blur in these numbers is due to the fact that these projects are on Base chain, which isn’t supported by Blur.)

First up is Aux Arbres by Zancan, a free (with fee) mint with a stated royalty of 10%. So far we’ve seen 45 transactions on Highlight for an average royalty of 7.61%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 1055 transactions with an average royalty of 2.29%.
Second is BasePaint Masterpieces by TicklishArt, with a stated royalty of 5%. So far we’ve seen 172 transactions on Highlight, with an average royalty of 3.83%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 162 transactions for an average royalty of 2.23%.
Last is Outcasts, with a stated royalty of 5%. So far we’ve seen 24 transactions on Highlight, with an average royalty of 4.81%. Compare this with OpenSea, where we’ve seen 196 transactions for an average royalty of 2.20%.
In summary, the Highlight marketplace is observing a strong willingness on the part of collectors to pay a full or partial royalty and fairly strong month-over-month growth in adoption with an average market share of 9.07% for the projects mentioned (with the important note that these projects were chosen specifically for their Highlight volume in order to have a richer set of data to draw from, so this average won’t hold across the entire market).
While these are promising signs of life, a primary goal of ours moving forward is to figure out how to incentivize and reward collectors for respecting royalties on Highlight, thereby increasing the overall royalty-paying market share. Stay tuned for updates on that in the coming weeks and months!
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