What an artist keeps
The share, the fee, and the mechanics that decide them — and why every number stays on the release or the sale rather than on a page like this one.
Two things decide what comes back to you, and neither lives here
The artist's share is a property of the collection: set when it is created, printed on every release beside the artist's name as a percentage to the artist on secondary. Royalties and what the artist keeps has the whole of it.
The platform's fee is a property of the sale: written when that sale is deployed, shown to the buyer in the total before they sign, and — for a release made from the studio — carried inside the terms you sign, at the rate the studio prints beside the submit button.
The share is paid before the seller
On a secondary sale the marketplace contract pays the collection's royalty as part of settling the trade, ahead of the seller's proceeds. An artist does not have to be remembered by whoever sells the work next: the contract reads the collection.
Publishing takes nothing out of your wallet
A release is signed in the studio and reviewed by a curator; approving it deploys the sale, and a rejected submission leaves nothing on chain and costs you no gas. Nothing moves until a sale sells.
The one exception is an auction, which escrows the piece from the moment the sale is deployed so that it can be delivered to whoever wins. Settlement releases the work and the proceeds in the same transaction — there is no claim step for either side to forget.
The work is yours until it is sold, and the platform holds no keys
Mints hand the edition straight to the buyer's wallet, which is also why a minted work appears there without this platform doing anything. Anything that moves an asset is signed by a wallet, never by the platform on your behalf.
What a primary sale changes is where the work is: the token belongs to the buyer afterwards, and what stays with you is the share on its future sales.
What this page is not
It is not a promise of earnings. What a work sells for is decided by whoever buys it, and no page knows that in advance. That is why this one describes the mechanics and leaves every number where it is enforced — on the collection, on the sale, and on the sale's own page before anyone signs.