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According to Decrypt, Colorado-based mining rights company Elemental Royalty announced on Tuesday that it will allow investors to receive dividends in the form of Tether's gold-backed stablecoin XAUT. This move is seen as the first real-world application of tokenized gold in traditional corporate finance. Elemental expects to distribute a total dividend of 12 cents per share to shareholders through several quarters of installment payments.Investors can still choose the traditional cash dividend method, but Elemental CEO David Cole stated, "Offering Tether Gold physical token dividends further highlights Elemental's differentiated positioning as a forward-looking investment company." Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino commented that this marks a significant advancement in the gold industry, showcasing how tokenized assets can unlock new financial models that were previously difficult to access.As of the time of writing, the market capitalization of XAUT is approximately $2.2 billion. With gold prices continuing to strengthen, the token's market cap reached a historic high of $3.5 billion earlier this month.

At the recently concluded Abu Dhabi BNB Hackathon, CZ had a highly aligned and forward-looking in-depth conversation with DragonVerse founder Natsuki about the vast development space for culture and IP on-chain. CZ expressed strong expectations for this development direction on-site, stating, "We welcome IPs like Dragon Ball to BNB Chain."Afterward, BNB Chain officially tweeted a photo of CZ and DragonVerse founder Natsuki's on-site conversation, and retweeted Natsuki's tweet while replying, "Just keep building." BNB Chain's Growth Executive Director Nina Rong and the official Chinese account of BNB Chain also expressed their support in replies.Subsequently, DragonVerse launched a Dragon Ball IP royalty-driven buyback dividend system and announced that the second Dragon Ball series IP asset will join the IP asset portfolio next week, further enhancing annual returns and continuously expanding the on-chain Dragon Ball universe through more IPs.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, DeLorean has announced that its on-chain vehicle reservation system and marketplace now support the use of DMC tokens to purchase capacity quotas for future models, and the relevant payment channels have been officially enabled.This plan clearly exempts the royalty fees generated from DMC transactions, achieving zero-cost on-chain capacity confirmation.According to market data from RootData, the DeLorean Labs token (DMC) has increased by 40.62% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.006598.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Tether Investments has announced the acquisition of approximately 31.9% of the shares of the Canadian gold royalty company Elemental Altus, totaling 78,421,780 common shares. At the same time, Tether has also signed an option agreement that grants the right to purchase an additional 34,444,580 shares of the company after October 29, 2025.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that this investment is an important step in the company's strategy to deepen the financial infrastructure supported by hard assets such as gold and Bitcoin, aiming to build a more resilient and transparent financial system. It is reported that Tether Group already holds over 100,000 Bitcoins and nearly 80 tons of physical gold, and has issued the physically gold-backed Tether Gold (XAUT) token.

ChainCatcher news, Story Protocol announces a partnership with Holoworld AI to launch royalty-earning virtual characters using artificial intelligence, creativity, and programmable IP. Users will be able to create fully customizable characters, from personality to appearance, and turn them into virtual stars. The programmable IP will support users in registering, owning, and earning royalties.

ChainCatcher news, according to an analysis article by The Block, Blur has introduced a 0.5% royalty, which has significantly eroded the revenue of the NFT studio Yuga Labs. Yuga Labs' royalty revenue in the third quarter of this year plummeted from $8.7 million in the first quarter to $2.5 million.The Block Research analyst Brad Kay stated that Blur's 0.5% royalty, combined with attractive airdrops and bidding incentives, has motivated traders, "By reducing trading costs, it has increased traders' profits and siphoned off a significant amount of user activity from higher-fee platforms like OpenSea, where Yuga Labs previously thrived." Kay believes that "this shift has not only led to a sharp contraction in Yuga Labs' royalty revenue but has also resulted in a fundamental reconfiguration of the NFT market."ChainCatcher previously reported that Yuga Labs announced a restructuring last week to focus on core matters.

ChainCatcher news, music NFT platform anotherblock collaborates with co-producer Andreas Schuller (Axident) to release NFTs featuring royalty shares from Justin Bieber's single "Company," with a total of 2000 pieces. According to the official website, the NFT is issued on the Base network, priced at 0.017 ETH, and has now sold out.Although Axident remains the copyright holder of the single, fans who own the track's NFT will be able to share 1% of the royalty shares from the song's streaming.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinGecko data, as of August 22, on friend.tech, user Cobie has the highest royalty income, reaching $144,400 (equivalent to 81.94 ETH). Below are the top 25 accounts ranked by royalty income and their trend changes.The founder of the friend.tech platform, 0xRacerAlt, ranks second with a royalty income of $101,700 (58.04 ETH). The third place goes to crypto trader HsakaTrades, with a royalty income of $100,600 (57.06 ETH).In the 12 days since the trial operation began on August 11, other users' royalty incomes ranged from $14,900 to $75,500, equivalent to daily earnings of $1,200 to $6,300, which could annualize to between $453,200 and $2.3 million.It is noteworthy that the combined royalty income of Cobie, 0xRacerAlt, and HsakaTrades accounts for 34.6% of the total for the top 25.Among the top 25 users, 16 accounts were established within the first 3 days of the trial operation. These early adopters leveraged their influence in the crypto Twitter space to quickly gain visibility on the platform.Additionally, 9 accounts joined a week after the trial operation began, with account ages ranging from 0 to 4 days. Among them, 6 are already influential crypto Twitter accounts.Interestingly, some non-crypto Twitter users are also gaining recognition, such as esports figures Faze Banks, 100T Nadeshot, and Faze Rain, who earned $75,500, $27,600, and $19,800 in royalty income shortly after joining the platform, respectively.

ChainCatcher news, according to Music Business Worldwide, the NFT music royalty investment market MasterExchange has completed a $2.7 million funding round, with participation from Vectr Fintech, Claes-Henrik Julander, and Rob Small. MasterExchange has launched its first "Initial Music Offering (IMO)" product, "Sofia," which has sold out.It is reported that MasterExchange was co-founded by AI and blockchain expert Alexander Fred-Ojala, allowing music creators to raise funds by selling a portion of their future income (i.e., music royalties) to support early-stage creation, with more IMOs expected to launch this fall.According to the MasterExchange official website, royalty shares are tradable assets on the MasterExchange platform, with each royalty share linked to an NFT on Polygon, and each is unique. However, the NFTs are held by external crypto custodians, and users do not interact directly with the NFTs when using MasterExchange.

ChainCatcher news, on-chain analytics company Nansen's tweet shows that Yuga Labs' royalty revenue accounts for 9.35% of the current total royalty revenue from NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain, Azuki accounts for 3.34%, and CloneX accounts for 2.82%.Nansen's analysis states that the competition between the two major platforms, OpenSea and Blur, has had a significant impact on royalty payments in the NFT market, leading to a substantial decline in royalty revenue this year, and it is fundamentally difficult to return to the market peak of 2019.

ChainCatcher message, according to a report released by the data analysis platform Nansen on Wednesday, NFT royalty payments fell to a two-year low in June. Royalty payments peaked in April 2022, with creators earning 28,000 ETH per week, equivalent to nearly 76 million dollars. Meanwhile, during the peak week in June, creators earned a total of 2,000 ETH, about 3.8 million dollars.It is reported that the rise of the optional royalty market Blur and the policies of the leading platform OpenSea have exacerbated the sharp decline in creator earnings. Currently, to enforce creator income on OpenSea, collectibles need to include on-chain execution methods in their smart contracts; otherwise, the default royalty fee is the minimum of 0.5%; while Blur enforces a minimum royalty of 0.5%. (source link)

According to ChainCatcher news, the NFT God Mode dashboard from Nansen shows that the on-chain royalty revenue for BAYC on Ethereum has exceeded $58 million, Otherdeed for Otherside has surpassed $52 million, Azuki has exceeded $43 million, and Pudgy Penguins has surpassed $7.2 million. (source link)

According to ChainCatcher news, data from Definitive shows that in the past 7 days,Bored Ape Yacht Club series NFT royalty revenue reached $487,771Otherdeed for Otherside series NFT royalty revenue reached $436,842Ghost Boy series NFT royalty revenue reached $366,857Mutant Ape Yacht Club series NFT royalty revenue reached $350,127SewerPass series NFT royalty revenue reached $309,408.

ChainCatcher news, the NFT trading market OpenSea today clarified its recently announced new policy: the operator filter applies to both new and existing on-chain enforced royalty NFT collections, while for off-chain enforced royalty NFT collections, creator earnings will be optional, with a minimum standard of 0.5%.It is reported that on February 18, OpenSea announced the launch of a limited-time 0 transaction fee trading and provided an optional royalty service with a minimum standard of 0.5% applicable to all off-chain enforced royalty NFT collections. At the same time, it updated the operator filter to allow NFT markets with the same policy to jointly increase market liquidity. However, the requirements and standards regarding the operator filter were not clear, leading to inquiries from other NFT markets such as LooksRare regarding OpenSea. (source link)