PANews reported on December 9 that according to Decrypt, Metaplex, the creator of the NFT standard on the Solana chain, posted on Twitter, accusing Magic Eden, the NFT market on the Solana chain, and Jordan Prince, a Metaplex protocol developer, of leading a coordinated pressure campaign to try to control the NFT standards they built, including setting token parameters and functions. In response to Magic Eden's potential monopolistic behavior, Metaplex said it would release a plan to "decentralize control of the Solana NFT standard" and also announced that it would not arbitrarily appease a "team acting maliciously."

Magic Eden subsequently responded that Metaplex falsely accused them of trying to control the NFT standards on the Solana chain. It has provided feedback to Metaplex on the decentralized NFT standards plan with other Solana builders, but Magic Eden hinted that Metaplex had an improper influence on the NFT standards on the Solana chain.

According to reports, Magic Eden and Metaplex recently seemed to take different paths on the controversial issue of enforcing creator royalties in secondary market NFT sales. Using the current standards of Solana and Ethereum, royalties cannot be fully enforced on the chain. Magic Eden launched its own enforced royalty protocol last week, allowing creators of new Solana NFT projects to prevent these assets from being traded on markets that do not pay royalties.