Overview
Wild Tangz is a Cardano NFT studio that lets creators run their own NFT mint and gives collectors a free way to view what they hold. The project ships an open-source mint tool, a hand-drawn collectible series, and mobile apps for browsing Cardano NFT wallets. The same small team that builds its own collection also publishes the underlying mint code under Apache 2.0 for other Cardano projects to reuse.
Wild Tangz is founded and mainly built by Thaddeus Diamond, a Cardano developer who has filed Project Catalyst proposals under his own name1. The work spans three surfaces: a website where the current collection is sold, GitHub repositories for the open-source tools, and free mobile apps on iOS and Android23.
Key Features
- Open-source mint tool for other creators. The NFT Vending Machine, written in Python and published under the Apache 2.0 license, lets a Cardano project run its own mint where a buyer sends ADA to a deposit address and the tool returns the matching NFT4.
- Free mobile NFT viewer. The Wild Tangz apps for iPhone and Android let anyone type in a Cardano wallet address or stake key to see the NFTs that wallet holds, with no sign-in23.
- Companion developer toolkit. A separate JavaScript library on GitHub gives Cardano developers reusable helpers for parsing NFT metadata, signing transactions, and working with token policies5.
- Hand-drawn collection on Cardano. The flagship collection is a hand-drawn art series minted on Cardano in 2022, with a follow-up Series 2 collection that uses the project's own vending-machine tool to handle the sale.
- Publicly identified founder. Thaddeus Diamond is named on the project's GitHub and on two Project Catalyst proposals, making the team behind the tools easy to verify1.
What to Expect
The Wild Tangz website itself is a single page that walks through the current mint and the in-app sections (Portfolio, Collectibles, Bazaar, Mining), so most of what the project offers lives outside the site. Builders who want the mint tool go to GitHub and read the README in the NFT Vending Machine repository4. Collectors who want to use the wallet viewer install the mobile app and paste in a Cardano wallet address or stake key (the identifier that links a wallet to a stake pool).
There is no public Discord or Telegram surfaced on the site, no separate documentation hub, and no published audit. Most of the activity sits on GitHub, where the founder maintains a handful of Cardano-specific repositories alongside the vending-machine code, which has continued to receive updates since the original Catalyst funding. Project Catalyst proposal pages give the clearest plain-English description of what the tools do and who they are for1.
