NFT royalty

NFT royalty is a percentage of every secondary NFT sale that is automatically routed to the collection’s creator or to a designated recipient. On TON this is a technical capability defined by TEP-66 — NFT Royalty Standard: the collection exposes royalty parameters (numerator, denominator, and destination address) via a get_royalty_params get-method, and marketplaces use them when constructing the purchase transaction.

How it works technically on TON

TEP-66 defines the get-method get_royalty_params, returning three values:

• numerator — the share’s numerator (for example 5);
• denominator — the share’s denominator (for example 100, giving 5%);
• destination — the address to which the royalty must be sent.

When a buyer purchases an NFT, the marketplace reads these parameters and routes the corresponding portion to the destination address. At the NFT-item contract level royalties are not directly enforced — compliance depends on the marketplace’s good faith. The standard defines “how to read”, not “how to obligatorily pay”.

Which marketplaces honour it

As of 2026 the main TON marketplaces support TEP-66:

• Getgems — honours royalties on p2p deals and public listings.
• Portals — pays the creator on secondary sales of upgraded gifts.
• Tonnel, MRKT — support TEP-66 on standard collection listings.

OTC deals directly between wallets (for example, via a signed transfer agreed in a Telegram chat) bypass the marketplace and therefore bypass the royalty as well.

In practice

• Typical royalty sizes on TON sit at 2–5%, occasionally 7.5–10%.
• High rates (above 10%) hurt secondary liquidity — traders avoid high-royalty collections.
• The destination address can be a multisig wallet of the collection team, an EOA wallet of the artist, or a split-contract that fans out the share to multiple parties.

Ethereum context

On Ethereum the equivalent role is played by EIP-2981. There the standard is also “advisory” — marketplaces may ignore it, and in 2022–2023 several major venues rolled out optional-royalty policies (OpenSea, Blur). On TON competition for volume has not yet produced a similar move: the main marketplaces keep honouring TEP-66.

What it means for participants

• A part of every secondary sale goes to the creator, not to the marketplace.
• Collection creators can usually update the destination address (if the collection contract allows it), but cannot easily change the share already encoded in a deployed contract without upgrade methods.
• When picking a collection to collect or flip, the royalty rate is one of the factors in the deal-level economics.