Request for clarification: Mintscan's business model

I’d appreciate clarification on the following: 1. Fees for chains. Will chains still pay to be integrated into Mintscan? If so, has the pricing model changed since the acquisition? 2. Mintscan API. Are the API commercial? Is there a free tier for Hub ecosystem builders? 3. Revenue destination. Do revenues from Mintscan stay with Cosmos Labs? Or does any part go to the Hub, for example through the community pool, stakers, or ATOM buybacks or burns? If not today, is this planned? 4. Financing of the acquisition. Without asking for the exact amount, can you confirm whether ATOM, ICF treasury assets were used? 5. Neutrality. Will APIs and data stay accessible on fair terms to competing explorers and tools, so that the ecosystem doesn’t end up with a single point of dependency? 6. Reporting. Would Cosmos Labs consider periodic reporting, even high-level, on the revenues and costs of these services as they relate to the Hub? The underlying question is the one we keep coming back to: the Hub increasingly positions itself as the economic router of the Interchain, so the community needs to understand how the value created by this infrastructure relates to ATOM.…

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