Meet The Team behind HooTang Clan

HooTang Clan is made by the team behind MASKED. Since 2024 we've been running community-first NFT projects on Injective and Ethereum: free mints, self-funded, with every cent in royalties given back to holders. Many of the people who joined us in those early days are still here. HooTang is the next, and final chapter.

Our mission: bring the fun back to NFTs, and use this platform to help people learn about NFTs, tokens and web3 without getting burned. That's why our games let you get rugged with play money, and why we write crypto safety guides in plain English.

The founders

Ginja Ninja

Co-founder. Developer and socials

"I build the site and games, and I'm the one behind the X account spamming raid links at all hours. If something breaks on the site, it was 100% my fault testing on production. I've been in crypto since 2021 (MDX onboarded me and I bought the absolute top), running MASKED since 2024, back when we called ourselves Paradoxx."

@ginjaninja_420 on X

MDX3K

Co-founder. Artist

"The very definition of a wandering mind. I've been drawing all my life and passed the bug down to my daughter, who actually designed some of our MASKED and HooTang traits herself. Crypto since 2020, running MASKED with Ginj since we came up with the idea over a few beers back in 2024."

@mdx3k on X

Our track record

2free-mint MASKED collections, on Injective and Ethereum

31 ETH + 2,000 INJsecondary trading volume, roughly $100,000 at the prices of the day

100%of MASKED royalties spent on NFTs gifted back to the community

2024
Paradoxx launches on Injective. Our first NFT project, where the community began. Many of those early members are still with us today.
13 August 2025
Paradoxx becomes MASKED, launching on Injective as a free mint. See it on Talis
13 April 2026
MASKED launches on Ethereum, again as a free mint. See it on OpenSea
September 2026
HooTang Clan opens its doors, with free games for everyone and crypto safety guides.

We share these numbers as a record of a community that stuck around, not as a reason to buy anything. Past trading says nothing about the future.

Don't trust us. Verify.

Anyone can say they give back. These are the wallets that received MASKED royalties and sent the gifts, so you can check every transaction yourself.

Ethereum (the verified creator wallet on OpenSea)0x87f308847e5e4f9ab44167c6494111e723e5320c
Injective (the MASKED treasury)inj1q6n4t86stzwxtjjnreluj6kxw4ztqmk4xg2acc

Checking a wallet only needs its public address. Nobody, including us, will ever ask you to connect a wallet or share a seed phrase to "verify" anything.

Where the money goes

MASKED royalties: every one of them has been spent on NFTs from fellow collections, sent as discretionary gifts to random holders.
HooTang royalties: we're being upfront about this. After self-funding everything so far, HooTang's royalties will cover our running costs, pay us for our work for the first time, and fund the next things we build for MASKED and HooTang.
The mint: free, like both MASKED collections before it.

What we'll never do

Launch a token. Not now, not ever.
DM you first, or ask you to connect a wallet or share your seed phrase.
Promise returns. NFTs are for fun, community and art, not income.
Hide where the money goes.

Built with our kids

We're both dads of two, and our four kids have shaped HooTang from the very start: judging the artwork, testing the games, and telling us, with brutal honesty, when something wasn't fun. If a game made the cut, it passed their test first.

The core team

None of this works without the people who've been with us since the start. Thank you to:

Nahal@nahalx
BoyMeetsWorld@bmw67_prmr
LukeRad@luke_inj
Malabarr@malabarr_inj
MrP@juronchain
Wandering Cosmonaut@wanderingcsmnt
Leonoor@leonoorcosmosnl

See what we're building. Play the games, read the safety guides, or come and say hello.

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