Project Admission & Operating Flow

Every project meets the same free-mint, allocation, disclosure and operational standards before an eligible staker snapshot is created.

Every Drops project must meet the same free-mint, allocation, disclosure and operational standards before an eligible staker snapshot is created.

Project admission requirements#

Admission standard A	Admission standard B
Zero-cost mint access for every eligible staker	Intellectual-property and metadata disclosure
Sufficient supply for the eligible staker cohort	Published supply and reveal structure
Agreed 50–100 NFT project contribution to the Drops Reward Vault	Separate creator-campaign budget where applicable
Team, contract and smart-contract security review	No hidden fee, paid allowlist or paid primary phase for the staker allocation
Defined mint timeline, snapshot and settlement rules	Network-gas policy and secondary-market disclosure

Stage	Process
01	Hazels sources and evaluates an NFT project.
02	The project reserves a free-mint right for every eligible active staker wallet.
03	The project contributes approximately 50–100 NFTs to the Drops Reward Vault under the published contribution formula.
04	Hazels Studio records the eligible staker snapshot and excludes invalid, duplicated, restricted or technically ineligible wallets.
05	Every eligible active staker receives one published free-mint right; no FCFS or Select competition applies.
06	Stakers complete the project mint within the published mint window.
07	The Reward Vault distribution remains locked until the 100% valid-cohort mint-completion condition is met.
08	Contributed project NFTs are held in the Reward Vault and are not assigned an artificial floor value.
09	When legitimate secondary-market sales occur, net realized proceeds are converted into the distributable USDC pool after published deductions.
10	Eligible stakers receive the final USDC distribution according to verified staker reward weight.
11	Eligible staker-creators may also participate in the project's Pulse campaign under its separately published rules.

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Contribution = MIN(100, MAX(50, CEILING(Eligible Wallets x 5%)))
Minimum project reserve = Eligible Free Mints + Project Contribution