# Project Development and Mint Costs **Mint Costs** With every mint we have a cost to pay to our artist and our minting partner. Much of this distribution will be go towards these costs. **Project Development** Anything not paid toward our artist and minting partner will be held and used to pay for continued development of Hoarder's Collections projects. This could include any of the following ongoing projects:\ WeirdOZ Portals\ Zombie Chains Tournament and Minting System\ The Collector's Club Gamified Staking via the Missions Platform\ Synth City\ Yield Lab Staking \ etc. Since starting WeirdOZ and eventually establishing Hoarder's Collections, we have only had one true mint and that was the WeirdOZ mint. In that mint two years ago, we brought in under $100k. After mint costs paid to our artist and our minting partner, we were left with around $70k. In the past two years, we have taken on projects where we received $0 to take on such as Zombie Chains and The Collector's Club. With these projects, we bootstrapped the building of the Zombie Chains tournament System and the missions platform for the Collector's club which is being relaunched soon. We did launch Shadow Operatives which primarily went to the TCC artist to keep him on board and reward him what he was due from the previous owner of the project. This is an opportunity to allow us to build onto the awesome foundation. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://hoarderscollections.gitbook.io/hoarderscollections/onsen-order/mint-details/project-development-and-mint-costs.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.