Immutable Orderbook: nft marketplaces rating breakdown
Gaming · Immutable zkEVM
The one venue here with a working answer on creator terms, because it never entered the fee war: royalties on the Immutable orderbook are enforced at the protocol level rather than left to the buyer’s conscience, and $185k of fees over thirty days is real activity for a chain-specific gaming marketplace.
The one venue here with a working answer on creator terms, because it never entered the fee war: royalties on the Immutable orderbook are enforced at the protocol level rather than left to the buyer’s conscience, and $185k of fees over thirty days is real activity for a chain-specific gaming marketplace.
How the score is built
Each criterion is scored 0–10 and weighted. The median column is the middle score across every entry in this ranking, so a row reads as a position rather than a number.
| Criterion | What we measured | Weight | Score | Category median | Rank | Weighted gap |
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| What the venue takes | — | 28% | 6 | 6.5 | 5 of 8 | -0.14 |
| What the creator actually gets | enforced at protocol level creator royalties · published · 2026-08-27 · source | 25% | 8 | 6 | 1 of 8 | +0.50 |
| Is anyone actually trading here? | $185k 30-day fees collected · sourced · 2026-08-27 · source | 22% | 6 | 5.5 | 3 of 8 | +0.11 |
| Custody and approvals | — | 15% | 8 | 7 | 1 of 8 | +0.15 |
| Chains and collections | — | 10% | 4 | 3.5 | 4 of 8 | +0.05 |
Measured 27 August 2026 · weights and method · decided by what the creator actually gets, worth +0.50 points against the median
What the venue takes: 6/10
The published marketplace fee, quoted from the venue’s own documentation, alongside thirty days of fees actually collected from public data — because a headline of “0%” and a business that still needs revenue is a combination worth examining. Where a venue charges differently for its own drops or its own chain, that is recorded separately.
Scored 6 of 10 against a category median of 6.5, which places it 5th of 8 among nft marketplaces on this criterion. At a 28% weight that is 0.14 points below the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 4.
What the creator actually gets: 8/10
Whether creator royalties are enforced, optional, or capped, per the venue’s own documentation. This is the category’s defining change: royalties used to be enforced by marketplaces as a courtesy, and the fee war ended that almost everywhere. A buyer should know whether the artist is being paid, and a creator should know before they mint.
Scored 8 of 10 against a category median of 6, which places it 1st of 8 among nft marketplaces on this criterion. At a 25% weight that is 0.50 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 8, the worst 2.
Is anyone actually trading here?: 6/10
Thirty days of fees collected and value held in on-platform bidding pools, from public data at a stated timestamp. In a collapsed market this is the criterion that separates a venue from a website: a marketplace collecting four figures a month has an interface, not a market.
Scored 6 of 10 against a category median of 5.5, which places it 3rd of 8 among nft marketplaces on this criterion. At a 22% weight that is 0.11 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 1.
Custody and approvals: 8/10
Whether listing requires granting a contract approval over your collection, what that approval can do, and the venue’s incident history — including phishing and front-end attacks, which have cost NFT holders far more than contract exploits ever have.
Scored 8 of 10 against a category median of 7, which places it 1st of 8 among nft marketplaces on this criterion. At a 15% weight that is 0.15 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 8, the worst 6.
Chains and collections: 4/10
Chains supported with real activity, and whether the venue is the primary market for the collections on them.
Scored 4 of 10 against a category median of 3.5, which places it 4th of 8 among nft marketplaces on this criterion. At a 10% weight that is 0.05 points above the median contribution of the weighted total. The best score in the category is 10, the worst 2.
Its nearest neighbours in this ranking
| # | Entry | What the creator actually gets | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenSea | 6 | Behind by 2 on what the creator actually gets. |
| 3 | Blur | 3 | Behind by 5 on what the creator actually gets. |
| 4 | Magic Eden | 6 | Behind by 2 on what the creator actually gets. |
Questions about this score
How does Immutable enforce royalties when nobody else does?
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At the protocol level rather than as a marketplace policy — the rules are part of the infrastructure the assets live on, not a courtesy each venue can waive to win volume. That is only possible because Immutable controls its own chain and the assets are native to it, which is exactly why the approach has not spread to general marketplaces.
Can I trade regular NFTs on Immutable?
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It is built for gaming assets in its own ecosystem, not for general collections. Activity depends on a handful of titles, which is a narrower base than any general marketplace and means the venue's health tracks the health of specific games.