🔥 We'd like to share our thoughts on the situation that has been discussed all week regarding marketplace trading fees.

All the conspiracy theories about gateways, kickbacks to Telegram, and other mechanisms that were supposedly meant to ensure safer trading and attract more users to the market have fallen apart. In reality, there were many ways this could have been implemented. For example, Telegram could have introduced a 100 ⭐️ fee for transferring an off-chain gift, encouraging users to move their gifts on-chain, into a decentralized network where smart contracts can handle trading fees, royalties, and much more.

As things stand today, it's difficult to call an off-chain gift an NFT. It's Telegram's property that you're simply allowed to hold. If they decide to take it back, they can, and there is little anyone can do about it—unlike with a real NFT. As for supporting smaller projects within the ❤️ ecosystem, there's hardly anything left to say. Some of the theories revolved around that as well, but in the end nothing changed, and the "antitrust committee" once again found no issues and quietly moved on.

In the end, all that's left are emigrants in the form of vibe coders—and nothing more 🎁

Perhaps we're too small a project to have much influence in this ecosystem, but we'd still like to address Mr. Freeman, a.k.a. @tonnel.

If you truly want to stand out from the other marketplaces, then now is probably the best time to show everyone what 0% trading fees really look like.