Tensor Review
Full royalty enforcement, clearly stated
of 10
Tensor publishes a 2% taker fee and 0% maker fee, and enforces full royalties on collections that set them — always paid by the taker, never the maker. It does not publish a contract licence or a named audit on the pages read.
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Taker fee
2%
Maker fee
0%
Enforced royalties
Full, always paid by the taker
Optional royalties
Taker chooses none, half or all
Licence / audits
Not stated
Scores
Each criterion carries equal weight. The overall score is the average of these 5 scores — (9.0 + 9.0 + 2.0 + 4.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 = 5.2.
Pros
- Taker fee published at 2%, maker fee at 0%
- Full royalties enforced on collections that require them, and always paid by the taker
- For optional-royalty collections, takers choose none, half or all — stated explicitly
- A clear, seller-friendly fee and royalty structure
Cons
- No contract licence is published on the pages read
- No named audit is stated
- The supported chain is not stated on the fees page
Royalties enforced, and who pays made explicit
Tensor states that on collections with enforced royalties it requires payment of the full amount, always by the taker and never the maker, and that on optional-royalty collections the taker chooses to pay none, half or all. Naming not just whether royalties are paid but who bears them is more precise than most marketplaces manage, and it earns a high royalty score.
Fees are clean
A 2% taker fee and 0% maker fee are published plainly — a structure that favours the party placing liquidity.
The code side is undocumented
Against that, no contract licence and no named audit appear on the pages we read, and the supported chain is not stated on the fees page. For a marketplace those are real gaps, and they hold the licence and audit scores at the bottom despite the strong fee and royalty disclosure.
Who builds it
Tensor, a Solana NFT marketplace, is governed through the Tensor Foundation, which its documentation says facilitates community-led governance over the Tensor protocols via the TNSR token and Tensor DAO; the operating company and its team are not named on its own pages. It launched in 2022. A foundation-and-DAO structure with undisclosed operators is the governance shape to understand for Solana's leading professional NFT venue.
How it compares
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Blur
Zero marketplace fees, thin public documentation
LooksRare
MIT-licensed, candid about zero royalties
Zora
MIT-licensed, itemised trading fee
SuperRare
Fees and splits published in full
Rarible
MIT-licensed and ChainSecurity audited
Magic Eden
Clear fee, but coverage is narrowing
OpenSea
MIT-licensed and Trail of Bits audited
Sources
Scored from published primary sources rather than hands-on use. Every figure above comes from one of the pages below, on the date shown. Manufacturers change prices and specifications without notice — if something here no longer matches the source, tell us and we will correct it.
- 1.Tensor — fees and royalties — checked
- 2.Tensor — foundation documentation — checked
Frequently asked questions
What are Tensor's fees?
A 2% taker fee and 0% maker fee. Enforced royalties are paid in full, always by the taker.
Does Tensor pay creator royalties?
Yes on collections with enforced royalties, paid in full by the taker. On optional-royalty collections the taker chooses to pay none, half or all.
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