Royalties and Pricing: An Artist's Guide

This is a guide, not a rulebook. Every artist's path is different, and what works for one person won't automatically work for the next.

Take what fits, leave what doesn't, and make it your own. What follows is how royalties actually work on the XRP Ledger, where you set yours on XRPL Home, and some honest starting points for pricing your work.

🎨 What are XRPL NFT royalties?

A royalty is the percentage you receive when your work is resold on the secondary market. It's how you stay connected to a piece long after the first sale — the part of the deal that treats art as something with a life rather than a one-off transaction.

On the XRP Ledger the royalty travels with the token. It's written in when the piece is minted, so it keeps applying wherever the artwork ends up: you receive it on eligible secondary sales across XRPL-compatible marketplaces, not only in the place it was first listed. Mint anywhere, and the terms follow the work home.

Where you set it: Review & Mint

On XRPL Home your creator royalty is set at the Review & Mint step, at the end of the flow, on the same screen where you confirm the artwork, the story, and your rights to it. The range is 0% to 50%.

If the rest of the flow is still unfamiliar, read how to mint your art on XRPL Home first — royalty is the last decision in a sequence, not a setting hidden in a menu somewhere.

Choosing your royalty percentage

Just because you can set 50% doesn't mean you should. A high royalty makes a piece harder to resell, and secondary movement is one of the main ways new collectors discover an artist. Most XRPL artists sit between 5% and 10%.

• 5% — a good balance for collections with volume and active resale.
• 7–10% — common for 1/1s and higher-end pieces.
• 3–5% — sensible for charity or community collections where you want the work to move freely.
• 0% — occasionally right for gifts, free drops, or collabs where someone else is taking the creator share.

There's no magic number. Find your comfort zone, keep it fair to collectors, and say what it is publicly so nobody has to guess.

🏷️ Pricing your art

Pricing depends on time, effort, rarity, and audience. The ranges below are examples to think against, not brackets to obey:

• 1/1 artwork — roughly 20 to 250+ XRP, depending on the piece and how established you are.
• Limited editions of 5–25 — roughly 5 to 75 XRP.
• Open editions — roughly 5 to 20 XRP.
• Community drops — roughly 2 to 10 XRP.

Start where people can comfortably say yes, build demand, and let your pricing grow as your collector base grows with you. Nobody has ever been punished for being reachable early on.

Pricing that builds trust

Fair pricing builds trust. Consistency builds collectors. Nothing erodes goodwill faster than a price that lurches around week to week because you were reacting to a slow Tuesday.

A few habits that hold up over time:

• Price the work, not the mood.
• Say what a drop will cost before it lands.
• Don't undercut your own collectors days after they bought.
• Never sell on the promise of what a piece will be worth later. Sell the work, the story, and the reason it exists.

That last one isn't only ethics; it's strategy. Collectors who bought a story stay. Collectors who bought a projection leave the moment the projection wobbles. If a slow stretch has you doubting all of this, this one is for you.

🔋 Artists carrying the $DOOD badge

If you see 🔋 by $DOOD™ next to an artist, they're part of that ecosystem — giving back through burns, rewards, and collabs that keep the CommUnity moving. Part of every sale feeds the wider circle instead of stopping at the seller. When one artist wins, others feel it.

Final thoughts

This is one example of a path, not the path. Test, learn, and find what feels right for your art.

Royalties keep you connected to your work long after mint day. Pricing is how you invite people in. Both are decisions you'll get better at making, and the only way to gather real information is to put the next piece out. When it's ready, bring it home.