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Monax Labs launches Aspen to guarantee royalties for Web3 creators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Monax Labs, a Web3 studio specializing in secure and legal non-fungible token (NFT) infrastructure, has unveiled Aspen, a Web3 membership platform that bridges the gap between creators and their communities.

Among the things it can do is guarantee royalties for Web3 creators — something that has been a problem with Web3 marketplaces such as OpenSea. In short, blockchain tech offers the ability to trace who created what with a digital item. And so creators should get a royalty based on something — or some piece of an item — that they’ve created. Yet OpenSea has decided not to do this.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.